varve

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That Tiljander believes that the climate signal in the Lake Korttajarvi varve dataset is that higher local temperatures correlate to thinner, more-organic-rich, lower-XRD varves.

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  • TH2010 report the use of 13 varve thickness series (tho I can only locate 12 on their location map: perhaps a couple of sites overlay.) —  Climate Audit
  • I'm a lay person who has looked at Mann et al (2008) (paper, SI, Comment, and Response), and who has followed the last bit of the discussion of the Lake Korttajarvi varve proxy series. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • That Tiljander believes that the climate signal in the Lake Korttajarvi varve dataset is that higher local temperatures correlate to thinner, more-organic-rich, lower-XRD varves. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • That Tiljander cautioned that after ~1720, the Lake Korttajarvi varve dataset is likely affected by local-human-activity signals, leading to thicker, more-mineral-rich, higher-XRD varves than climate alone would produce. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • That the varve proxy was calibrated by Mann et al over a period (1850-1995) in which higher local temperatures were correlated to thicker, more-mineral-rich, higher-XRD varves. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
 

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  1. Swedish varv, layer, from varva, to bend, from Old Norse hverfa.
 

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