Arctic marine climate of the early nineteenth century
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...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:10d487e12561437bbbd38c4b682d438b 2023-05-15T14:56:18+02:00 Arctic marine climate of the early nineteenth century P. Brohan C. Ward G. Willetts C. Wilkinson R. Allan D. Wheeler 2010-05-01 https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-6-315-2010 http://www.clim-past.net/6/315/2010/cp-6-315-2010.pdf https://doaj.org/article/10d487e12561437bbbd38c4b682d438b en eng Copernicus Publications doi:10.5194/cp-6-315-2010 1814-9324 1814-9332 http://www.clim-past.net/6/315/2010/cp-6-315-2010.pdf https://doaj.org/article/10d487e12561437bbbd38c4b682d438b undefined Climate of the Past, Vol 6, Iss 3, Pp 315-324 (2010) envir geo Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2010 fttriple https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-6-315-2010 2023-01-22T17:58:05Z 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 size of the temperature change, so other observational records from the period are particularly valuable. Weather observations have been extracted from the reports of the noted whaling captain William Scoresby Jr., and from the records of a series of Royal Navy expeditions to the Arctic, preserved in the UK National Archives. They demonstrate that marine climate in 1810–1825 was marked by consistently cold summers, with abundant sea-ice. But although the period was significantly colder than the modern average, there was considerable variability: in the Greenland Sea the summers following the Tambora eruption (1816 and 1817) were noticeably warmer, and had less sea-ice coverage, than the years immediately preceding them; and the sea-ice coverage in Lancaster Sound in 1819 and 1820 was low even by modern standards. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland Greenland Sea Lancaster Sound Sea ice Unknown Arctic Greenland Scoresby ENVELOPE(162.750,162.750,-66.567,-66.567) Lancaster Sound ENVELOPE(-83.999,-83.999,74.218,74.218) Climate of the Past 6 3 315 324 |
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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 size of the temperature change, so other observational records from the period are particularly valuable. Weather observations have been extracted from the reports of the noted whaling captain William Scoresby Jr., and from the records of a series of Royal Navy expeditions to the Arctic, preserved in the UK National Archives. They demonstrate that marine climate in 1810–1825 was marked by consistently cold summers, with abundant sea-ice. But although the period was significantly colder than the modern average, there was considerable variability: in the Greenland Sea the summers following the Tambora eruption (1816 and 1817) were noticeably warmer, and had less sea-ice coverage, than the years immediately preceding them; and the sea-ice coverage in Lancaster Sound in 1819 and 1820 was low even by modern standards. |
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