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Upper Soper Lake, southern Baffin
Island, Canada. A primary source of paleoclimatic data from the Arctic are lake sediments.
Upper Soper Lake contains annually-laminated sediments that have been used to reconstruct
early summer (June) surface air temperatures back several centuries. View is from the air,
looking north. Photo credit: Peter Sauer. |
| 62°55'N 69°53'W Reference: Hughen et al., 1997
Proxy Type: dark lamination thickness |

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| Standardized climate record reflecting surface air temperature. Red indicates
temperatures greater than one standard deviation warmer than average for the reference
period (1901-1960), whereas dark blue indicates at least one standard deviation colder
than this average. All series presented as five-year averages (see paper for more
explanation). |
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