The Medieval Warm Period

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-iii

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2. Was There a ‘Medieval Warm Period’, and if so, Where and When?

   • Malcolm K. Hughes, Henry F. Diaz

   Pages 109-142

3. Glacial Geological Evidence for the Medieval Warm Period

   • Jean M. Grove, Roy Switsur

   Pages 143-169

4. Evidence for Climatic Conditions Between CA. 900-1300 A.D. in the Southern Canadian Rockies

   • B. H. Luckman

   Pages 171-182

5. Tree-Ring and Glacial Evidence for the Medieval Warm Epoch and the Little Ice Age in Southern South America

   • Ricardo Villalba

   Pages 183-197

6. Tree-Ring Reconstructed Rainfall Over the Southeastern U.S.A. During the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age

   • David W. Stahle, Malcolm K. Cleaveland

   Pages 199-212

7. Middle Ages Temperature Reconstructions in Europe, a Focus on Northeastern Italy

   • Françoise Serre-Bachet

   Pages 213-224

8. The Medieval Warm Period on the Southern Colorado Plateau

   • Jeffrey S. Dean

   Pages 225-241

9. A Warm and Wet Little Climatic Optimum and a Cold and Dry Little Ice Age in the Southern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A.

   • Kenneth Lee Petersen

   Pages 243-269

10. The Correlation of Summer Precipitation in the Southwestern U.S.A. with Isotopic Records of Solar Activity During the Medieval Warm Period

    • Owen K. Davis

    Pages 271-287

11. Evidence for the Existence of the Medieval Warm Period in China

    • Zhang De’er

    Pages 289-297

12. Major Wet Interval in White Mountains Medieval Warm Period Evidenced in δ13C of Bristlecone Pine Tree Rings

    • Steven W. Leavitt

    Pages 299-307

13. The Medieval Solar Activity Maximum

    • J. L. Jirikowic, P. E. Damon

    Pages 309-316

14. An Analysis of the Time Scales of Variability in Centuries-Long Enso-Sensitive Records in the Last 1000 Years

    • Henry F. Diaz, Roger S. Pulwarty

    Pages 317-342

The Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age are widely considered to have been the major features of the Earth's climate over the past 1000 years. In this volume the issue of whether there really was a Medieval Warm Period, and if so, where and when, is addressed. The types of evidence examined include historical documents, tree rings, ice cores, glacial-geological records, borehole temperature, paleoecological data and records of solar receipts inferred from cosmogenic isotopes. Growth in the availability of several of these types of data in recent years, and technical advances in their derivation and use, warrant this state-of-the-art re-examination of Medieval Warm Period.
The book will be of value to all those with an interest in the natural variability of the climate system, for example those concerned with anticipating and detecting anthropogenic climate change.

• Northeaster
• Precipitation
• Rain
• Scale
• Smog
• climate change
• hydrogeology

• Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

  Malcolm K. Hughes

• NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, USA

  Henry F. Diaz

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