Abstract The Little Ice Age (LIA), which lasted from about 1250 to 1860 AD, was likely the
coldest period of the last 8000 years. Using new documentary data and analyses of alpine …

The evidence for the Little Ice Age, the most important fluctuation in global climate in
historical times, is most dramatically represented by the advance of mountain glaciers in the …

The term Little Ice Age was originally coined by F Matthes in 1939 to describe the most
recent 4000 year climatic interval (the Late Holocene) associated with a particularly dramatic …

This review focuses on the development of the 'Little Ice Age'as a glaciological and climatic
concept, and evaluates its current usefulness in the light of new data on the glacier and …

Abstract The Little Ice Age (LIA) is known as one of the coldest stages of the Holocene. Most
records from the Northern Hemisphere show evidence of significantly colder conditions …

Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures over the past 8000 years have been paced by
the slow decrease in summer insolation resulting from the precession of the equinoxes …

During the first half of the nineteenth century, several large tropical volcanic eruptions
occurred within less than three decades. The global climate effects of the 1815 Tambora …

The Little Ice Age (LIA; ca. 1250 1850) has long been considered the coldest interval of the
Holocene. Because of its proximity to the present, there are many types of valuable …

The causes and timing of the Little Ice Age (fifteenth to nineteenth centuries) are still unclear
(Crowley, 2000; Bond et al., 2001; Shindell et al., 2001). During the last part of this event …

The inception of the Little Ice Age (~ 1400–1700 AD) is believed to have been driven by an
interplay of external forcing and climate system internal variability. While the hemispheric …