Arctic marine climate of the early nineteenth century

• Published in: Climate of the Past
• Main Authors: Brohan, P., Ward, C., Willetts, G., Wilkinson, C., Allan, R., Wheeler, D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: envir; geo; Arctic; Greenland; Lancaster Sound; Scoresby; Greenland Sea; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-6-315-2010; https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/6/315/2010/

The climate of the early nineteenth century is likely to have been significantly cooler than that of today, as it was a period of low solar activity (the Dalton minimum) and followed a series of large volcanic eruptions. Proxy reconstructions of the temperature of the period do not agree well on the...