Weichselian Late Pleniglacial surface winds over northwest and central Europe: a model–data comparison

Renssen, H.; Kasse, C.; Vandenberghe, Jef; Lorenz, Stephan

doi:10.1002/jqs.1038

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“…This is the time, when SST and insolation in the northern hemisphere reach minimum values. Climate simulations (Renssen et al, 2007) show a low east wind activity and increasing west winds for the LGM. These results could be supported by the data from De3, concerning the periode from 24-21 ka BP when east wind layers are less present.…”

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“…Thus, we think that H1, H2 and LGM show a direct coupling to easterly wind systems. Renssen et al (2007) and Isarin et al (1998) demonstrated the important impact of slight N-S shifts of the belt of strong westerlies. Probably such shifts occurred concurrently with the numerous climatic oscillations that are recorded within the studied period 40-12 ka BP, which may have resulted in changing wind directions at the Eifel region.…”

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“…A higher east wind frequency is also modeled by Renssen et al (2007) for the time slice of the late pleniglacial (18-15 ka BP).…”

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“…The methods of generating proxy data contain relict dune forms in Central Belgium (Vandenberghe, 1991) and Poland (Godzik, 1991), grain size trends of cover sand and loess in the Netherlands (van Huissteden et al, 2001), provenance analyses by heavy mineral composition (Krook, 1993) and wind polished rock surfaces (Christiansen, 2004;Christiansen and Svensson, 1998;Vandenberghe et al, 1999). The balancing of these data with climate model results allows wind direction reconstruction for Central Europe for the LGM and the Late Pleniglacial (Renssen et al, 2007). This combination of meteorological simulations and proxy data shows that the Late Pleniglacial and the LGM were dominated by westerly to north westerly wind directions due to the location of the study area in the mid latitudes.…”

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“…Small scale variances of topography and vegetations are not reproduced by low resolution atmospheric simulations. For example the ECHAM wind direction simulation for the Late Pleniglacial and the LGM (Renssen et al, 2007) has a horizontal resolution of 2.8 • . This means, that the complete area of Denmark is represented by only one seawater grid cell, but for the Netherlands and Poland the model allocates land cells.…”

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The reconstruction of easterly wind directions for the Eifel region (Central Europe) during the period 40.3–12.9 ka BP

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Abstract.A high resolution continuous reconstruction of last glacial wind directions is based on provenance analysis of eolian sediments in a sediment core from the Dehner dry Maar in the Eifel region (Germany). This Maar is suitable to archive easterly wind directions due to its location west of the Devonian carbonate basins of the Eifel-North-SouthZone. Thus, eolian sediments with high clastic carbonate content can be interpreted as an east wind signal. The detection of such east wind sediments is applied by a new module of the RADIUS grain size analyze technique. The investigated time period from 40.3-12.9 ka BP can be subclassified in three units: The first unit covers the periods of the ending GIS-9, H4, and GIS-8. With the exception of H4 (40-38 ka BP) the content of organics in our record is relatively high. With the end of GIS-8 (38-36.5 ka) the content of organics decrease and the content of dust increases rapidly. The second time slice (36-24 ka BP) has an increased content of dust accumulation and a high amount of east winds layers (up to 19% of the dust storms per century came from the east). In comparison, the subsequent period (24-12.9 ka BP) is characterized by lower east wind sediments again. Increased frequencies of east wind occur during the time intervals corresponding with the Heinrich events H1 and H2. The unusual H3 show no higher east wind frequency but so do its former and subsequent Greenland stadials. The late LGM (21-18 ka BP) is characterized by a slightly elevated east wind frequency again.

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confidence: 99%

“…A higher east wind frequency is also modeled by Renssen et al (2007) for the time slice of the late pleniglacial (18-15 ka BP).…”

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2010. The construction of a palaeodischarge time series for use in a study of fluvial system development of the Middle to Late Pleistocene Upper Thames.ABSTRACT: Recently many studies have attempted to model fluvial system development over a variety of geographical and temporal scales. It is generally recognised that one of the main problems, especially in studies over longer timescales (>100 ka), is the reconstruction of a robust palaeodischarge time series. Over such extended timescales discharge can only be reconstructed using proxy data, i.e. either field-based (sediment) palaeodischarge estimates or transformation of reconstructed palaeoclimate data series (e.g. ice core data), with only the latter method allowing the reconstruction of a continuous time series. In this study of the Upper Thames catchment, UK, we have developed a new palaeodischarge time series. A sea surface temperature record (ODP 980) from the North Atlantic (off the west coast of Ireland) is used as a proxy for precipitation across the Upper Thames catchment. A vegetation filter, based on pollen data, is then applied to this precipitation record in order to create a runoff model. Finally, this runoff model is transformed to a discharge model via the use of a climate change function which attempts to reflect probable changes in the frequency and magnitude of discharge events. Using our new palaeodischarge model, we present output from the FLUVER2 model of longitudinal profile development for the Middle to Late Pleistocene Upper Thames Valley. This model simulates the possible timing and magnitude of sediment aggradation/degradation events on the floodplain as well as the timing of floodplain abandonment due to tectonic uplift, resulting in terrace formation.

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Compilation of the offshore and onshore altitudinal limits of the loess deposits of western France and southern England shows that they were deposited by low-level wind fields. These relate to (i) the deflation of silt-rich sediment extracted from the outwash plains of the not far distant British-Irish Ice Sheet and from the palaeo-rivers of the Channel, and (ii) the existence of north and north-western palaeo-winds deduced from particle size analysis and heavy mineral distribution, and suggest (iii) that loess particles were transported by strong katabatic winds blowing from the northern ice-covered regions towards Brittany and Normandy. Comparison between the main orientation of Neanderthal shelters and the direction of the katabatic winds shows that they were perpendicular to each other. The dominant orientation of the shelters was apparently ruled by these winds. A small-scale study concentrating on the penultimate glaciation shows that in contrast to Brittany and Normandy where loess deposits accumulated on northfacing cliffs, in England the same particles were deposited on the leeside of the hills. The existence of deflation zones, violently swept by Marine Isotope Stage 6 katabatic winds south of the British-Irish ice sheet, was probably at the origin of the restricted number of Neanderthals at that time in England.

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Weichselian Late Pleniglacial surface winds over northwest and central Europe: a model–data comparison

Cited by 67 publications

References 63 publications

The reconstruction of easterly wind directions for the Eifel region (Central Europe) during the period 40.3–12.9 ka BP

The reconstruction of easterly wind directions for the Eifel region (Central Europe) during the period 40.3–12.9 ka BP

The construction of a palaeodischarge time series for use in a study of fluvial system development of the Middle to Late Pleistocene Upper Thames

Impact of katabatic winds on the environment of Neanderthals during the Middle Palaeolithic in westernmost Europe

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