The 1430s: A cold period of extraordinary internal climate variability during the early Spörer Minimum with social and economic impacts in north-western and central Europe

Climate of the Past

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2107-2126

  Camenisch, Chantal ^a   Keller, Kathrin M ^a   Salvisberg, Melanie ^a   Amann, Benjamin ^a,b   Bauch, Martin ^c   Blumer, Sandro ^a   Brázdil, Rudolf ^d,e   Brönnimann, Stefan ^a   Büntgen, Ulf ^a,e,f   Campbell, Bruce M S ^g   Fernández Donado, Laura ^h   Fleitmann, Dominik ⁱ   Glaser, Rüdiger ^j   González Rouco, Fidel ^h   Grosjean, Martin ^a   Hoffmann, Richard C ^k   Huhtamaa, Heli ^a,l   Joos, Fortunat ^a   Kiss, Andrea ^m   Kotyza, Oldřich ⁿ   Lehner, Flavio ^o   Luterbacher, Jürg ^p   Maughan, Nicolas ^q   Neukom, Raphael ^a   Novy, Theresa ^r   Pribyl, Kathleen ^s   Raible, Christoph C ^a   Riemann, Dirk ^j   Schuh, Maximilian ^t   Slavin, Philip ^u   Werner, Johannes P ^v   Wetter, Oliver ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c German Historical Institute   (Italy)

^d MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^f SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^g QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^h INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^k YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^l UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^m VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

ⁿ Regional Museum   (Czech Republic)

^o NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^p JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^q AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^r JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^s UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^t UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^u UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^v UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

more..

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; FOOD PRODUCTION; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONALITY; SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; SOCIAL IMPACT;

EUROPE;

EID: 85002497967     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-12-2107-2016     Document Type: Article

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