Articles | Volume 12, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-2215-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-2215-2016
Research article
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16 Dec 2016
Research article |  | 16 Dec 2016

Climate trends in northern Ontario and Québec from borehole temperature profiles

Carolyne Pickler, Hugo Beltrami, and Jean-Claude Mareschal

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North American borehole temperature profiles suitable for climate studies F. Jaume-Santero, H. Beltrami, and J.-C. Mareschal https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.2062140

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The ground surface temperature histories of the past 500 years were reconstructed at 10 sites in northern Ontario and Quebec. The regions experienced a warming of ~1–2 K for the past 150 years, agreeing with borehole reconstructions for southern Ontario and Quebec and proxy data. Permafrost maps locate the sites in a region of discontinuous permafrost but our reconstructions suggest that the potential for permafrost was minimal to absent over the past 500 years.