Storm chasing: Tracking Holocene storminess in southern Sweden using mineral proxies from inland and coastal peat bogs

Kylander, Malin E.; Cortizas, Antonio Martínez; Sjöström, Jenny K.; Gåling, Jenny; Gyllencreutz, Richard; Bindler, Richard; Alexanderson, Helena; Schenk, Frederik; Reinardy, Benedict; Chandler, Benjamin M. P.; Gallagher, Kerry

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107854

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“…Climatic changes, especially the alternating occurrence of warm and cold periods (Bond et al, 1997; Borzenkova et al, 2015; McDermott et al, 2001), also had a large impact on the variation in the frequency and strength of storms, as well as the intensity of aeolian processes (Clemmensen et al, 2001, 2009; Clemmensen and Murray, 2006; Pedersen and Clemmensen, 2005; Sommerville et al, 2007; Wilson et al, 2001, 2004). Similar pattern of frequent storms occurring during cold periods and transition between warm and cold periods are also recognized on the other coasts of the southern part of the Baltic Sea (Kylander et al, 2023; Uścinowicz et al, 2020; Uścinowiczet al, 2022). These periodical changes become particularly important in the last 6000 yr b2k, after the Littorina Transgression.…”

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Driving forces and determinants of barrier coast evolution in the Holocene observed on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea

Sydor

Uścinowicz

2023

The Holocene

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Coastal barriers account for approximately one-eighth of the world’s coastline. Barriers are the most common landform type in the southern part of the Baltic Sea area. Despite the long history of research, the issue of barrier coast evolution remains unresolved. The topic of this research is to determine the conditions under which the barrier coast evolved in the Holocene and to explain the local, different histories of its development. A 35 km long stretch of the coastal zone in the eastern Pomeranian Bay (southern Baltic) was explored using boreholes, seismoacoustic and GPR profiling, as well as radiocarbon and OSL dating, biostratigraphic studies and lithological analysis. Three main groups of deposits were identified: barrier subsoil deposits, barrier deposits (marine and aeolian sand, as well as interdune peat) and Rega River delta deposits. In the early Northgrippian (~8000 yr b2k), the coastline was located from about 2 to 12 km north of its present position. In the period 8000–6000 yr b2k, the coastline migrated southwards (landwards), initially at a rate of up to 22 m/yr and later up to 2 m/yr. The main driving forces at that time were climate warming and rapid sea level rise. When the Holocene transgression ceased, there were three different histories of the barrier coast development in the study area: a barrier that was still transgressive, a barrier that evolved from transgressive to progradational, and a barrier that evolved from transgressive trough progradational to transgressive again. The main determinants of these different histories were the lithology and relief of the barrier subsoil (accommodation space) and the time-varying amount of sand available for barrier formation, which varied in different parts of the study area.

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Driving forces and determinants of barrier coast evolution in the Holocene observed on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea

Sydor

Uścinowicz

2023

The Holocene

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“…(f) ASI-variations reflecting storminess at Nykvåg plotted along a logarithmic (grey) and linear (black) scale (Nielsen et al, 2016c). (g) Comparison of five different local to regional storm records from northern Europe: Latjønna (Nielsen et al, 2016b), Trehynnvatnet (Nielsen et al, 2016c), this study, Southern Sweden storm stack (Kylander et al, 2023) and Laphroaig bog in Scotland (Kylander et al, 2020).…”

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“…Promising approaches to infer past storminess include the quantification of aeolian sand influx from sand beaches and dune fields into small ponds, lakes and bogs (e.g. Björckl and Clemmensen, 2004; De Jong et al, 2006; Goslin et al, 2018, 2019; Kylander et al, 2020, 2023; Nielsen et al, 2016b, 2016c; Orme et al, 2016a; Sjögren, 2009) and compiled records of sand mobilization events from aeolian dune stratigraphies (e.g. Clarke and Rendell, 2009; Clemmensen et al, 2009; Wilson et al, 2004).…”

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“…A major advantage of using sand influx, is that it can produce continuous and undisturbed data representing the storminess, providing insight into aspects of palaeoclimatic extremes that is not readily available from other climate proxies. A recent paper by Kylander et al (2023) introduces ‘storm stacks’ to produce regional comparisons of sand influx data in order to account for site-specific responses between the archives and climate. Kylander et al (2023) propose using changepoint modelling to build the storm stacks.…”

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“…A recent paper by Kylander et al (2023) introduces ‘storm stacks’ to produce regional comparisons of sand influx data in order to account for site-specific responses between the archives and climate. Kylander et al (2023) propose using changepoint modelling to build the storm stacks. This implies that there are several comparable and well dated studies/datasets from the region that could be included in the modelling, which is not the case yet for northern Norway and northern Sweden.…”

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Intensified Late-Holocene aeolian activity in Vesterålen, northern Norway – increased storminess or human impact?

Nielsen,

Dahl,

Prestegård

et al. 2024

The Holocene

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This study reconstructs Mid- to Late-Holocene aeolian activity based on lacustrine sediments from a small pond, Nøkktjønna, situated ~1.5 km northeast from the coast, and stratigraphical investigations of coastal dunes at Fjærvoll, Langøya in Vesterålen, northern Norway. Several methods have been used to reconstruct catchment processes from the lacustrine record, including analyses of lithostratigraphy, organic content, magnetic susceptibility, and grain size, combined with high-resolution X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and Computed Tomography (CT) scanning. The content of coarse mineral grains (>125 μm) has been quantified throughout the lacustrine core by manual wet sieving and by conducting threshold analysis from the high-resolution CT-scans. Considering the setting of the drainage basin of Nøkktjønna, the mineral grains (>125 μm) in the sediment core are suggested to have been deposited by aeolian transportation from the nearby aeolian dunes and beach sand during storm events. Five periods of intensified aeolian influx (defined here as influx values above the 90th percentile) are identified. These periods occurred around ~6950, ~6500, ~6100–6000, 5800–5750 and ~350–20 cal. yr BP cal. yr BP, with the last period being the most intense. The increased influx in aeolian sand to Nøkktjønna is suggested to be associated with a combination of changes in the storm track pattern, sea-level fluctuations, conditions of snow cover/frozen surface and increased anthropogenic influence. The highest influx rates are recorded between CE 1600 and 1930, corresponding to the ‘Little Ice Age’ (LIA), which is a well-known period of high storminess in the North Atlantic region.

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Beyond the Obvious: Exploring Peat Vibrational Spectroscopy (FTIR-ATR) Data Using Principal Components Analysis on Transposed Data Matrix (tPCA), Store Mosse Bog (Sweden)

Martínez Cortizas,

Traoré,

López-Costas

et al. 2024

Frontier Studies in Soil Science

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Storm chasing: Tracking Holocene storminess in southern Sweden using mineral proxies from inland and coastal peat bogs

Cited by 14 publications

References 70 publications

Driving forces and determinants of barrier coast evolution in the Holocene observed on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea

Driving forces and determinants of barrier coast evolution in the Holocene observed on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea

Intensified Late-Holocene aeolian activity in Vesterålen, northern Norway – increased storminess or human impact?

Beyond the Obvious: Exploring Peat Vibrational Spectroscopy (FTIR-ATR) Data Using Principal Components Analysis on Transposed Data Matrix (tPCA), Store Mosse Bog (Sweden)

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