Late Antique Little Ice Age

The Late Antique Little Ice Age is a long lasting Northern hemisphere cooling period in the 6th and 7th century AD, proposed in 2015. Researchers who coined the term noted that this followed three immense volcanic eruptions in the years 536, 540 and 547 AD.

The evidence comes from a temperature reconstruction from the Euro-Med2k[1] working group of the international PAGES (Past Global Changes) project,[2] using new tree-ring measurements from the Altai Mountains, which closely matches the temperatures in the Alps in the last two centuries.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "PAGES - Past Global Changes - Euro-Med2k".
  2. ↑ "PAGES - Past Global Changes - News".
  3. ↑ "New ‘Little Ice Age’ coincides with fall of Eastern Roman Empire and growth of Arab Empire". Heritage Daily.
  4. ↑ http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo2652.html

See also

Extreme weather events of 535–536


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