A Comparison of Evidence for Late Holocene Summer Temperature Variations in the Northern Hemisphere
Data on glacier, tree-line, tree-ring, pollen, and ice-core variations in North America, Greenland, and Europe during the last 2000 yr (up to A.D. 1800) are compared in detail on the century time scale. Only data that may be indicative of summer temperature changes are included, since these comprise...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1016/0033-5894(83)90014-5 2024-06-09T07:44:17+00:00 A Comparison of Evidence for Late Holocene Summer Temperature Variations in the Northern Hemisphere Williams, L. D. Wigley, T. M. L. 1983 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(83)90014-5 http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589483900145?httpAccept=text/xml http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589483900145?httpAccept=text/plain https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400033809 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Quaternary Research volume 20, issue 3, page 286-307 ISSN 0033-5894 1096-0287 journal-article 1983 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(83)90014-5 2024-05-15T13:10:27Z Data on glacier, tree-line, tree-ring, pollen, and ice-core variations in North America, Greenland, and Europe during the last 2000 yr (up to A.D. 1800) are compared in detail on the century time scale. Only data that may be indicative of summer temperature changes are included, since these comprise most of the available paleoclimatic information, although some variations (especially of glaciers) may have been in response to precipitation changes instead. Radiocarbon dates and 14 C-dated records are converted to calendar (dendrochronological) years using the calibration of M. Stuiver (1982, Radiocarbon 24, 1–26). Despite the basic uncertainties in dating, interpretation, response times, and “noise level” of proxy climatic data, there is at times good agreement among different kinds of evidence from within a region to suggest an episode of generally warmer or cooler summers. Three previously identified episodes find expression in records from all of the regions considered: the “Little Ice Age” of the last few centuries, a “Medieval Warm Period” around the 12th century A.D., and an earlier cold period some time between the 8th and 10th centuries. However, the timing of minima and maxima within these episodes seems to have varied from region to region (although the evidence is consistent within regions). In the 15th century, summers were warm in the eastern Canadian Arctic and southern Greenland while there was a cold episode in Europe and western North America. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic glacier Greenland ice core Cambridge University Press Arctic Greenland Quaternary Research 20 3 286 307 |
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Data on glacier, tree-line, tree-ring, pollen, and ice-core variations in North America, Greenland, and Europe during the last 2000 yr (up to A.D. 1800) are compared in detail on the century time scale. Only data that may be indicative of summer temperature changes are included, since these comprise most of the available paleoclimatic information, although some variations (especially of glaciers) may have been in response to precipitation changes instead. Radiocarbon dates and 14 C-dated records are converted to calendar (dendrochronological) years using the calibration of M. Stuiver (1982, Radiocarbon 24, 1–26). Despite the basic uncertainties in dating, interpretation, response times, and “noise level” of proxy climatic data, there is at times good agreement among different kinds of evidence from within a region to suggest an episode of generally warmer or cooler summers. Three previously identified episodes find expression in records from all of the regions considered: the “Little Ice Age” of the last few centuries, a “Medieval Warm Period” around the 12th century A.D., and an earlier cold period some time between the 8th and 10th centuries. However, the timing of minima and maxima within these episodes seems to have varied from region to region (although the evidence is consistent within regions). In the 15th century, summers were warm in the eastern Canadian Arctic and southern Greenland while there was a cold episode in Europe and western North America. |
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A Comparison of Evidence for Late Holocene Summer Temperature Variations in the Northern Hemisphere |
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A Comparison of Evidence for Late Holocene Summer Temperature Variations in the Northern Hemisphere |
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A Comparison of Evidence for Late Holocene Summer Temperature Variations in the Northern Hemisphere |
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A Comparison of Evidence for Late Holocene Summer Temperature Variations in the Northern Hemisphere |
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A Comparison of Evidence for Late Holocene Summer Temperature Variations in the Northern Hemisphere |
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comparison of evidence for late holocene summer temperature variations in the northern hemisphere |
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