Cruising an archive: On the palaeoclimatic value of the Lena Delta. (May 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Büntgen, Ulf; Kirdyanov, Alexander V; Hellmann, Lena; Nikolaev, Anatoly N; Tegel, Willy
• Is Part Of: Holocene. Volume 24:Number 5(2014)
• Page Start: 627
• Page End: 630
• Publication Date: 2014-05
• Subjects: Arctic driftwood -- dendroclimatology -- eastern Siberia -- high-resolution palaeoclimatology -- proxy archives -- subfossil wood; Geology, Stratigraphic -- Holocene -- Periodicals; Paleoclimatology -- Periodicals; 333.7
• DOI: 10.1177/0959683614523805
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0959-6836

Abstract

Today, there are only a handful of millennial-long and annually resolved tree-ring chronologies in existence. Explicit gaps in the global distribution of these regional chronologies together with an overall declining sample size back in time compel a community-wide challenge to discover new tree ring–based climate proxy records. Here, we present evidence for a yet unexplored palaeoenvironmental archive, define allied research tasks and emphasize probable hurdles within and beyond academia, in pursuit of answering this challenge.