Investigating the potential of oxygen-isotope records from anthropogenic lakes as tracers of 20th century climate change

Tindall, J.M.; Holmes, J.; Candy, I.; Leng, M.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1115-5166; Langdon, P.; Fonville, T.; Sear, D.A.. 2024 Investigating the potential of oxygen-isotope records from anthropogenic lakes as tracers of 20th century climate change. The Holocene. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836241266435

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Abstract/Summary

Historical climate change in southern England was investigated using ostracod oxygen-isotope (δ18O) records from two anthropogenic lakes in Hampshire, southern England. A strong relationship is observed between δ18Oostracod, δ18Oprecipitation and δ18Olake_water in the contemporary environment and therefore δ18Oostracod from the sedimentary record of these systems has the potential to reflect past climate variability. The possibility of these sites to act as archives of climate change through δ18Oostracod analysis is explored through the study of lake sediment cores that cover the period from the early 20th century onwards. Both lakes showed similar directionality of shifts in δ18Oostracod over this period, suggesting common driving mechanisms. Comparing δ18Oostracod timeseries to meteorological data is challenging in part because of the complexity with which climate parameters are recorded in the δ18Olake_water and consequently within lacustrine carbonates. Our findings highlight the potential of sediments from anthropogenic lakes to act as archives of past climate and indicate they may be an important resource for generating climatic reconstructions across the medieval to instrumental period, which the sediments of many anthropogenic lakes cover. Such climate reconstructions would greatly improve our spatial and temporal understanding of climate variability where instrumental data are unavailable and other natural archives are scarce.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836241266435
ISSN:	0959-6836
Date made live:	17 Oct 2024 10:54 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/538261

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836241266435

ISSN:

0959-6836

Date made live:

17 Oct 2024 10:54 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/538261