EGU24-17143, updated on 11 Mar 2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-17143
EGU General Assembly 2024
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A multiproxy comparison of Scots pine wood in western Norway 

Wendy Hlengiwe Khumalo1, Helene Løvstrand Svarva1, Marie-Josée Nadeau1, Martin Seiler1, Bente Philippsen1, Matias Kallevik2, and Dominik Collet2
Wendy Hlengiwe Khumalo et al.
  • 1The National Laboratory for Age Determination, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway (wendy.khumalo@ntnu.no)
  • 2Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

With the onset of anthropogenic climate change, the ClimateCultures project aims to tackle the question “What happened the last time we encountered rapid climate change?” using evidence from tree rings and historical records to paint a picture of the natural impacts and societal responses in Norway during the Little Ice Age. More specifically, we aim to investigate short-lived extreme cold events in the 1700’s. This calls for a more regional scale to account for complex climate drivers over a mountainous country with regional climatic differences and local communities’ responses. Here we present a case study of Scots pine wood collected in western Norway, a region known for mild temperatures and high precipitation (relative to average Norwegian climate), and compare various tree ring proxies including ring width, Blue Intensity and stable oxygen isotopes. While this record does not extend to the 1700’s, we can consider the merits and limitations of each proxy when compared to the instrumental records. This study will provide a basis for climate reconstructions, particularly focusing on hydroclimate signals in Norwegian chronologies. 

How to cite: Khumalo, W. H., Svarva, H. L., Nadeau, M.-J., Seiler, M., Philippsen, B., Kallevik, M., and Collet, D.: A multiproxy comparison of Scots pine wood in western Norway , EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-17143, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-17143, 2024.