Storminess proxies from Cors Fochno, Wales

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Future anthropogenic climate forcing is forecast to increase storm intensity and frequency over Northern Europe, however understanding the significance of such a change is difficult because the natural variability of storminess beyond the range of instrumental data is poorly known. Here we present a decadal-resolution record of storminess covering the Late Holocene, based on analysis of a core taken from the peat bog of Cors Fochno in mid-Wales, UK, in 2010. Storminess is indicated by variations in the minerogenic content (aeolian sand deposits) as well as bromine deposited from sea spray. A 4 m long peat core was sampled using a Russian corer from the centre of the bog (52°30'9''N; 4°0'39''W). Chronological constraints were provided by AMS radiocarbon dating of 5 samples along the core, which showed that the core spanned a period from 4460-120 cal yrs BP.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931039
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2792
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.931039
Provenance
Creator Orme, Lisa C ORCID logo; Davies, Sarah J; Duller, Geoff A T
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Bundled Publication of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 2 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-4.011 LON, 52.502 LAT)