Bipolar Changes in Atmospheric Circulation During the Little Ice Age

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Kreutz, Karl J., Mayewski, Paul A., Meeker, L. David, Twickler, Mark S., Whitlow, Sallie I., Pittalwala, Iqbal I.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 1997
• Subjects: Greenland; Pacific; Siple; Siple Dome; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/faculty_pubs/354; https://doi.org/10.1126/science.277.5330.1294

Annually dated ice cores from Siple Dome, West Antarctica, and central Greenland indicate that meridional atmospheric circulation intensity increased in the polar South Pacific and North Atlantic at the beginning (∼1400 A.D.) of the most recent Holocene rapid climate change event, the Little Ice Age...