ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of the potential of multi-proxy studies for Late Quaternary climatic reconstructions using lacustrine sediment records. Choice of sites, proxies and their climatic sensitivity, leads and lags of different proxies, and chronology are discussed and illustrated by three case studies of Late Glacial, Younger Dryas and Holocene multi-proxy summer temperature reconstructions. Common trends and consistencies in multi-proxy data make climatic reconstructions more credible, whereas differences among multi-proxy records call for a critical evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the proxies involved.
