… of the Little Ice Age are observed over the interval 1400 to 1700 CE, with greatest cooling
over the extratropical Northern Hemisphere … Eurasian Arctic, and cooling over central Eurasia,
suggestive of the positive phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and closely related …

This study evaluates different hypotheses of the origin of the Little Ice Age, focusing on the
long-term response of Arctic sea ice and oceanic circulation to solar and volcanic perturbations.
The authors analyze the Last Millennium Ensemble of climate model simulations carried …

… of seasonal climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere over the past millennium. Key …
Anomaly (MCA) of the early millennium and the Little Ice Age (LIA) of the late millennium, as
well as … synoptic circulation types in the Northern Hemisphere extratropics that can reconcile …

… Timing of the preindustrial temperature deviations agrees well with other northern hemisphere
temperature reconstructions, however, their extent (~… 75øN, this new ice core will provide
a more detailed history of Holocene climate in the Arctic. Although the causes for LIA climate …

… [1] Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures over the … Little Ice Age (LIA) is the most
extreme, remain debated, largely because the natural forcings are either weak or, in the case
of volcanism, short lived. Here we present precisely dated records of ice‐cap growth from Arctic …

… mechanism that amplifies the Little Ice Age cooling in the North Atlantic–European region …
forcing, the Arctic sea ice substantially expands at the beginning of the Little Ice Age. The … of
the sea ice and the cooling of the Northern Hemisphere. In the Nordic Seas, sea surface height …

… the polar South Pacific and North Atlantic at the beginning (∼1400 AD) of the most recent
Holocene rapid climate change event, the Little Ice Age (… The LIA (nominally ∼1400 to 1900
AD) is recorded in several Northern Hemisphere and equatorial paleoclimatic records; it was a …

… values reflect mainly summer atmospheric conditions [as more than 80% ofthe annual
precipitation falls in the wet season (15)J, the Northern Hemisphere mean temperature departures
and the Quekcaya summit core 81 O record are well linearly related (16). This linear relation …

… Northern Hemisphere and globe during past centuries from these different sources provides
considerable insight into the regional variability and extent of the Little Ice Age (… clearly
expressed in the North Atlantic region in terms of altered patterns of polar atmospheric circulation. …

… The appelations "Medieval Warm Period" and "Little Ice Age" have entered the literature and
are frequently used without clear definition. … In this paper, the origins of the term "Little Ice
Age" are considered. Because of the emphasis on the North Atlantic in this volume, the prime …