Climate of the Past www.clim-past.net 1814-9324 1814-9332 3 1 2007 10.5194/cp-3-119-2007 http://www.clim-past.net/3/119/2007/ http://www.clim-past.net/3/119/2007/cp-3-119-2007.html http://www.clim-past.net/3/119/2007/cp-3-119-2007.pdf 119 128 2007-02-22 Multiproxy records of climate variability for Kamchatka for the past 400 years O. Solomina olgasolomina@yandex.ru G. Wiles T. Shiraiwa R. D'Arrigo Institute of Geography RAS, 119017 Staromonetny-29, IGRAS, Moscow, Russia The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, USA Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan Tree Ring Laboratory, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, New York, USA Tree ring, ice core and glacial geologic histories for the past several centuries offer an opportunity to characterize climate variability and to identify the key climate parameters forcing glacier expansion in Kamchatka over the past 400 years. A newly developed larch ring-width chronology (AD 1632–2004) is presented that is sensitive to past summer temperature variability. Individual low growth years in the larch record are associated with several known and proposed volcanic events from the Northern Hemisphere. The comparison of ring width minima and those of Melt Feature Index of Ushkovsky ice core helps confirm a 1–3 year dating accuracy~for this ice core series over the late 18th to 20th centuries. Decadal variations of low summer temperatures (tree-ring record) and high annual precipitation (ice core record) are broadly consistent with intervals of positive mass balances measured and estimated at several glaciers in 20th century, and with moraine building. According to the tree-ring data the 1860s–1880s were the longest coldest interval in the last 350 years. The latest part of this period (1880s) coincided with the positive anomaly in accumulation. 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