2003
DOI: 10.1191/0959683603hl603fa
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The ‘Little Ice Age’ – only temperature?

Abstract: Abstract:Understanding the climate of the last few centuries, including the 'Little Ice Age', may help us better understand modern-day natural climate variability and make climate predictions. The conventional view of the climate development during the last millennium has been that it followed the simple sequence of a 'Mediaeval Warm Period', a cool 'Little Ice Age' followed by warming in the later part of the nineteenth century and during the twentieth century. This view was mainly based on evidence from west… Show more

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“…The conventional view of a dry and cold climate during the LIA, however, is based largely on data from Western Europe and elsewhere in the North Atlantic region. This view has been challenged by findings of increased rainfall during the LIA in southern Norway (Nesje and Dahl 2003;Rasmussen et al 2010), northern Patagonia, South America (Villalba 1994), southwest China (Chen et al 2005), southern tropical China (Chu et al 2002) and northern Taiwan (Chen et al 2009;Wang et al 2011). Such spatial variations in precipitation reflect the regional characteristics of climate, such as the East Asia monsoon.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…The conventional view of a dry and cold climate during the LIA, however, is based largely on data from Western Europe and elsewhere in the North Atlantic region. This view has been challenged by findings of increased rainfall during the LIA in southern Norway (Nesje and Dahl 2003;Rasmussen et al 2010), northern Patagonia, South America (Villalba 1994), southwest China (Chen et al 2005), southern tropical China (Chu et al 2002) and northern Taiwan (Chen et al 2009;Wang et al 2011). Such spatial variations in precipitation reflect the regional characteristics of climate, such as the East Asia monsoon.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…Detailed information on these events over the past centuries, particularly during the Little Ice Age (LIA), is scarce, however. Although there are some references regarding long-term precipitation changes (Nesje and Dahl 2003), most studies focused on temperature variability (Büntgen et al 2013). Based on 336 TRW series of 21 sites with a high coherence between species and elevation, we developed a 318-year SPI reconstruction representative for the central region of Spain.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The interpretation of the climatic significance of advance or retreat has also been a limitation on the use of these glacial geologic data as the signal can be interpreted as a mixture of precipitation and temperature. In Kamchatka this question is particularly relevant as this is a coastal region, similar in climate to coastal Norway and New Zealand where glacier behavior may, in part, be strongly regulated by precipitation as well as temperature Chinn, 1999;Nesje and Dahl, 2003).…”
Section: Introduction and Study Areamentioning
confidence: 99%