Atmospheric effects in Scotland of the AD 1783–84 Laki eruption in Iceland

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Dawson, Alastair G., Kirkbride, Martin P., Cole, Harriet
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Iceland; Laki eruption; Little Ice Age; Scotland; climate change; weather diaries; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2306; name=Global and Planetary Change; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1204; name=Archaeology; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2303; name=Ecology; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1904; name=Earth-Surface Processes; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1911; name=Palaeontology; Laki
• Online Access: https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/b317ee06-10b1-4e49-9e55-288ed06554fb; https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683620988052; https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/ws/files/56228128/0959683620988052.pdf; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85100490304&partnerID=8YFLogxK

Daily weather diaries and meteorological records from Scotland reveal complex weather patterns following the 1783–84 fissure eruption of the Laki volcano, Iceland. Four diarists in eastern and northern Scotland describe the near-simultaneous occurrence of discrete groups of days characterised by ‘fo...