Arctic marine climate of the early nineteenth century

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

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...