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The Iceberg in the Mist: Northern Research in Pursuit of a “Little Ice Age”

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  1. Astrid E. J. Ogilvie

    1. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

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  2. Trausti Jónsson

    1. Department of Research and Processing, Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavík, Iceland

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THE "LITTLE ICE AGE": LOCAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES P. D. JONES and K. R. BRIFFA Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK. This volume of Climatic Change is devoted to the study of the climate of the last 1000 years, with a major emphasis on the last few centuries. The timespan encompasses what has been referred to as the "Little Ice Age" (Bradley, 1992). This term was originally coined by glaciologists, with reference to the most recent major glacial advance of the Holocene (Bradley and Jones, 1993). Although other such advances in different parts of the world may not have been synchronous, the term "Little Ice Age" has come to be associated with the period of a widespread foreward movement of European glaciers between about 14 50 to 1850, as well as with relatively cooler temperatures. The issue of whether or not this concept is appropriate, is a major theme of many of the papers included in this volume.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-8
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  2. Introduction

    1. “Little Ice Age” Research: A Perspective from Iceland

      • A. E. J. Ogilvie, T. Jónsson
      Pages 9-52

  3. Palaeoclimatic Data Analyses

    1. The Initiation of the “Little Ice Age” in Regions Round the North Atlantic

      • J. M. Grove
      Pages 53-82

    2. Oceanographic Change and Terrestrial Human Impacts in a Post A.D. 1400 Sediment Record from the Southwest Iceland Shelf

      • A. E. Jennings, S. Hagen, J. Harđardóttir, R. Stein, A. E. J. Ogilvie, I. Jónsdóttir
      Pages 83-100

    3. The Time Period A.D. 1400–1980 in Central Greenland Ice Cores in Relation to the North Atlantic Sector

      • L. K. Barlow
      Pages 101-119

    4. The “Little Ice Age” and Its Geomorphological Consequences in Mediterranean Europe

      • A. T. Grove
      Pages 121-136

    5. Is There an Insect Signal for the “Little Ice Age”?

      • Paul C. Buckland, Pat E. Wagner
      Pages 137-149

    6. Can Lichenometry be Used to Date the “Little Ice Age” Glacial Maximum in Iceland?

      • Martin P. Kirkbride, Andrew J. Dugmore
      Pages 151-167

  5. Synoptic Climatology

    1. Zonal Indices for Europe 1780–1995 and Running Correlations with Temperature

      • Jucundus Jacobeit, Peter Jönsson, Lars Bärring, Christoph Beck, Marie Ekström
      Pages 219-241
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`[...]the contents of The Iceberg in the Mist will be of interest to anyone concerned with late Holocene global climate change and variability.'
Quaternary Research, 60 (2003)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

    Astrid E. J. Ogilvie

  • Department of Research and Processing, Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Trausti Jónsson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Iceberg in the Mist: Northern Research in Pursuit of a “Little Ice Age”

  • Editors: Astrid E. J. Ogilvie, Trausti Jónsson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3352-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6796-3Published: 28 February 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5644-3Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-3352-6Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 264

  • Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Physical Geography, Hydrogeology

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