The potential of Lake Karakul in the eastern Pamirs as a long-term climate archive

Institute of Geological Sciences, Freie Universitat Berlin, Malteserstr. 74-100, 12249 Berlin, Germany, smischke@zedat.fu-berlin.de State Administration for Hydrometeorology of the Committee for Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan, 47 Shevchenko Str., Dushanbe 734025, Tajikistan Institute of Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Gansu 730000, PR China Stable Isotope and Luminescence Laboratory, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Birmingham, B15 2TT, England, i.boomer@bham.ac.uk Department of Earth Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA England Limnological Research Center, University of Minnesota, 310 Pillsbury Dr. SE, Minneapolis 55455, USA Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Research Unit Potsdam, Telegrafenberg A43, 14473 Potsdam, Germany