Climatic reconstructions for the northeast Atlantic region AD 1685-1700: A new source of evidence from naval logbooks

Holocene

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-49

  Wheeler, Dennis ^a   Suarez Dominguez, Jose ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; Climatic reconstructions; Maunder Minimum; Northeastern Atlantic; Palaeoclimatology; Ships' logbooks

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL RECORD; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 33144458172     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683606hl894ra     Document Type: Article

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