The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History

0500057 - ÚVGZ 2019 RIV GB eng M - Monography Chapter
Pfister, C. - Brázdil, Rudolf - Luterbacher, J. - Ogilvie, A. E. J. - White, S.
Early Modern Europe.
The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 - (White, S.; Pfister, C.; Mauelshagen, F.), s. 265-295. ISBN 978-1-137-43019-9
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Keywords : early modern period * documentary evidence * geography * temperature * climate variability * climate extremes * Europe
OECD category: Meteorology and atmospheric sciences

The most intensive research in historical climatology has concentrated on Europe in the early modern period (c.1500–1800), and established many of the methods and procedures that have become standard in this discipline. This chapter reviews the source material, methodology, and results of climate reconstructions from the archives of societies for each region of Europe during this period, which overlaps with the Little Ice Age (LIA). These reconstructions demonstrate that the LIA was by no means uniformly cold across the continent. Nevertheless, during these centuries Europe experienced numerous decades of frequent and severe temperature and precipitation anomalies, with significant human impacts.
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