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Latest Pleistocene and Holocene glacier variations in the European Alps

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In the early Holocene, the Egesen stadial moraines can be divided into three or in some cases even more phases (sub-stadials) as mentioned in this paper.
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This article is published in Quaternary Science Reviews.The article was published on 2009-10-01. It has received 406 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Rock glacier & Glacier mass balance.

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Structure and origin of Holocene cold events

TL;DR: In this article, a Holocene Climate Atlas (HOCLAT) is presented based on carefully selected 10,000-year-long time series of temperature and humidity/precipitation, as well as reconstructions of glacier advances.
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Holocene glacier fluctuations

TL;DR: A global overview of glacier advances and retreats (grouped by regions and by millennia) for the Holocene is compiled from previous studies as mentioned in this paper, which reconstructs of glacier fluctuations are based on mapping and dating moraines defined by 14 C, TCN, OSL, lichenometry and tree rings (discontinuous records/time series).
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Glacier variations in the European Alps at the end of the last glaciation

TL;DR: The Egesen stadial moraines as discussed by the authors formed at the margins of glaciers that advanced during the closing phase of the last glacial maximum or during the earliest Holocene at 10.5-12.5 ka.
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Quaternary glaciation history of northern Switzerland

TL;DR: In this paper, a revidierte Vergletscherungsgeschichte of the nordlichen Vorlandes der Schweizer Alpen wird vorgestellt, basierend auf Feldbefunden and chronologischen dataen of verschiedenen Schlussellokalitaten and Regionen.
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The role of increasing temperature variability in European summer heatwaves

TL;DR: It is found that an event like that of summer 2003 is statistically extremely unlikely, even when the observed warming is taken into account, and it is proposed that a regime with an increased variability of temperatures (in addition to increases in mean temperature) may be able to account for summer 2003.
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Long-term variations of daily insolation and Quaternary climatic changes

TL;DR: In this paper, a trigonometrical formula for the Earth's orbital elements is presented, which allows direct spectral analysis and the computation of those long-term variations of the orbital elements which are of primary interest for the calculation of the insolation.
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Air pressure and cosmogenic isotope production

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the cosmic ray flux increases at higher altitude as air pressure and the shielding effect of the atmosphere decrease, and that altitude-dependent scaling factors are required to compensate for this effect in calculating cosmic ray exposure ages.
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Development of the radiocarbon calibration program

TL;DR: This paper highlights some of the main developments to the radiocarbon calibration program, OxCal, including changes to the sampling algorithms used which improve the convergence of the Bayesian analysis.
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