Dark Ages Cold Period: A literature review and directions for future research

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Helama, Samuli, Jones, Phil D, Briffa, Keith R
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Lalia; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/62971/; https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/62971/1/Accepted_manuscript.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683617693898

Several late Quaternary studies have recorded cold and disturbed climates centred during the mid-first millennium AD and discussed these conditions under the term ‘Dark Ages Cold Period’ (DACP). A review of 114 palaeoclimate papers indicated that cold climates were common in the Northern Hemisphere...