Can a little ice age climate signal be detected in the southern alps of New Zealand?

• Main Author: Black, Jessica L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@UMaine 2001
• Subjects: Climate change New Zealand; Glaciers New Zealand; Geomorphology New Zealand; Climate; Earth Sciences; Environmental Monitoring; Glaciology; Burrows; Hooker; Mueller; New Zealand; North Atlantic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/523; https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/context/etd/article/1547/viewcontent/BlackJL2001.pdf

The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a late Holocene interval of climate cooling registered in the North Atlantic region by expansion of alpine glaciers and sea ice (Grove, 1988). Here the LIA includes an early phase from about AD 1280 to AD 1390, along with a main phase from about AD 1556 to AD 1860, follo...