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The Medieval Warm Period

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Malcolm K. Hughes

    1. Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

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  2. Henry F. Diaz

    1. NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  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
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Malcolm K. Hughes

  • NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, USA

    Henry F. Diaz

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Medieval Warm Period

  • Editors: Malcolm K. Hughes, Henry F. Diaz

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1186-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2842-1Published: 31 May 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4518-6Published: 14 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-1186-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: III, 234

  • Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change, Hydrogeology, Astrophysics and Astroparticles

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