Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 231-236

  Büntgen, Ulf ^a,b,c   Myglan, Vladimir S ^d   Ljungqvist, Fredrik Charpentier ^e   McCormick, Michael ^f   Di Cosmo, Nicola ^g   Sigl, Michael ^b,h   Jungclaus, Johann ⁱ   Wagner, Sebastian ^j   Krusic, Paul J ^k   Esper, Jan ^l   Kaplan, Jed O ^m   De Vaan, Michiel A C ^m   Luterbacher, Jürg ⁿ   Wacker, Lukas ^o   Tegel, Willy ^p   Kirdyanov, Alexander V ^d,q  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Global Change Research Centre AS CR   (Czech Republic)

^d SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^h PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^j INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^k Navarino Environmental Observatory   (Greece)

^l JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

ⁿ JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^o ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^p UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^q SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVILIZATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LITTLE ICE AGE; MIGRATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; TREE RING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ALPS; ALTAY [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; ARABIAN PENINSULA; ASIA; CHINA; ROMANIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84959403064     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2652     Document Type: Article

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