Scandinavian eskers, global climatic relationships, and solar forcing

Authors

  • Jan Lundqvist Department of Quaternary Research, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm

Keywords:

Sweden, Quaternary, Scandinavian ice sheet, deglaciation, eskers, climate, periodicity

Abstract

The morphology of a number of eskers in Sweden formed during the down-wasting of the last Scandinavian ice sheet about 11,000 to 10,000 calendar years ago shows a subdivision into centres representing periods of 1,3-6 and 10-11 years. It is proposed that these periods correspond to the summer/winter seasons, the El NiÔo - Southern Ocean (ENSO) cycle, and the sunspot cycle, respectively. If this is correct, the implication is a more global climatic relationship than earlier realised

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Published

2013-02-14

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Vol. 43 No. 2 (1999)

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