Considerações acerca do arrefecimento Plistocénico em Portugal

• Main Author: António de Brum Ferreira
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; French; Portuguese
• Published: CEG 2000
• Subjects: Paleoclimates; Late Pleistocene; Portugal; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation; G; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/b3187e7744ee47068db17526b5c55cf0

NOTE ON THE PLEISTOCENE COOLING IN PORTUGAL – Prevailing conditionsin the North Atlantic and Western Europe during the Maximum Cooling of the Last Glaciation can be deduced from the Climap Project (1976) results and from the Atlas of Paleoclimates and Paleoenvironments of the Northern Hemisphere (FRENZEL et al., 1992). Taking into account this framework of extreme climatic conditions and the nature of the glacial and periglacial relict phenomena in the Iberian Peninsula, an attempt is made to evaluate the degree of cooling in Portugal during the Gerês and Estrela glaciations. A drop of about 10º C in summer temperatures is suggested.