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Assorted References
- 17th-century Europe
- centennial-scale climate variation
- Dansgaard-Oeschger event
- ice age
- In ice age
- Maunder minimum
- In solar cycle
- In Maunder minimum
- Mendenhall Glacier
- oceans
- possible occurrence of a Bond event
- In Bond event
- solar activity
- Sub-Atlantic Climatic Interval
Additional Reading
Good overviews of the Little Ice Age are Brian Fagan, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300–1850 (2000), and The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations (2008). Jean M. Grove, Little Ice Ages: Ancient and Modern, 2nd ed., 2 vol. (2004), is a comprehensive technical treatment of the phenomenon.
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John P. Rafferty
John P. Rafferty writes about Earth processes and the environment. He serves currently as the editor of Earth and life sciences, covering climatology, geology, zoology, and other topics that relate to the natural world.
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Stephen T. Jackson
Professor Emeritus of Botany, University of Wyoming.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Add new Web site: PNAS - Was a change in thermohaline circulation responsible for the Little Ice Age? | Dec 20, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Association for the Advancement of Science - Little Ice Age abruptly triggered by intrusion of Atlantic waters into the Nordic Seas. | Nov 04, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Pennsylvania State University - Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science - Little Ice Age. | May 24, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - The 'Little Ice Age' only temperature? | Apr 10, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences - The Little Ice Age: Re-evaluation of an evolving concept. | Feb 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Little Ice Age. | Jan 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Sciences at Smith College - The Effects of the Little Ice Age. | Oct 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - The Little Ice Age and Its Giant Impact on Human History. | Sep 01, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Association for the Advancement of Science - Little Ice Age abruptly triggered by intrusion of Atlantic waters into the Nordic Seas. | May 25, 2023 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Mar 20, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Little Ice Age. | Mar 03, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - The 'Little Ice Age' only temperature? | Mar 18, 2016 | ||
| Graph depicting estimated temperature variation for the Northern Hemisphere and central England between the 10th and 20th centuries added. | Aug 26, 2011 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Apr 07, 2011 | ||
| New article added. | Apr 07, 2011 |
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