The variable European little ice age

H Wanner, C Pfister, R Neukom - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Glacier response to the Little Ice Age during the Neoglacial cooling in Greenland

KH Kjær, AA Bjørk, KK Kjeldsen, ES Hansen… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Northern Hemisphere, an insolation driven Early to Middle Holocene Thermal
Maximum was followed by a Neoglacial cooling that culminated during the Little Ice Age …

A regime shift in the Southeast Greenland marine ecosystem

MP Heide‐Jørgensen, P Chambault… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Two major oceanographic changes have recently propagated through several trophic levels
in coastal areas of Southeast Greenland (SEG). Firstly, the amount of drift‐ice exported from …

Little Ice Age abruptly triggered by intrusion of Atlantic waters into the Nordic Seas

F Lapointe, RS Bradley - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
The Little Ice Age (LIA) was one of the coldest periods of the postglacial period in the
Northern Hemisphere. Although there is increasing evidence that this time interval was …

[HTML][HTML] Ancient sedimentary DNA shows rapid post-glacial colonisation of Iceland followed by relatively stable vegetation until the Norse settlement (Landnám) AD …

IG Alsos, Y Lammers, SE Kjellman, MKF Merkel… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding patterns of colonisation is important for explaining both the distribution of
single species and anticipating how ecosystems may respond to global warming. Insular …

Weakening of the AMOC and strengthening of Labrador Sea deep convection in response to external freshwater forcing

X Wei, R Zhang - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a key player in climate.
Here, we employ an ensemble of water hosing experiments to examine mechanisms of …

Split westerlies over Europe in the early Little Ice Age

HM Hu, CC Shen, JCH Chiang, V Trouet… - nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Little Ice Age (LIA; ca. 1450–1850 CE) is the best documented cold period of
the past millennium, characterized by high-frequency volcanism, low solar activity, and high …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting the future of coastal marine ecosystems in the rapidly changing Arctic: The potential of palaeoenvironmental records

M Heikkilä, S Ribeiro, K Weckström, AJ Pieńkowski - Anthropocene, 2022 - Elsevier
Frozen components on land and in the ocean (sea ice, ice sheets, glaciers and permafrost)
form the cryosphere, which, together with the ocean, moderates the physical and chemical …

Destabilisation of the Subpolar North Atlantic prior to the Little Ice Age

B Arellano-Nava, PR Halloran, CA Boulton… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The cooling transition into the Little Ice Age was the last notable shift in the climate system
prior to anthropogenic global warming. It is hypothesised that sea-ice to ocean feedbacks …

Spatial pattern and cause of centennial-scale hydroclimatic variability over eastern China during the last millennium

JJ Yin, Z Wang, W Shi, Q Shao, X Wu, W Tang… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Instrumental and historic records have shown that the hydroclimatic variability on
interannual-to decadal-timescales over eastern China is spatially different, with a meridional …