Browsing History (Scholarly Publications) by Subject "Historical Climatology"
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Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland
(2020)Palaeoclimatic data are used to track the significant changes in atmospheric circulation patterns and weather conditions that affected Ireland between 1000 and 1500CE. How these climatic developments and associated shifts ... -
Climatic, Weather and Socio-Economic Conditions Corresponding with the mid-17th Century Eruption Cluster
(Routledge, 2022)The mid-17th century is characterized by a cluster of explosive volcanic eruptions in the 1630s and 1640s, climatic conditions culminating in the Maunder Minimum, and political instability and famine in regions of western ... -
The Forgotten Drought of 1765-1768: Reconstructing and Re-evaluating Historical Droughts in the British and Irish Isles
(2020)Historical precipitation records are fundamental for the management of water resources, yet rainfall observations typically span 100–150 years at most, with considerable uncertainties surrounding earlier records. Here, we ... -
Tree Ring Chronology of Meteorological Extremes for Ireland, AD425-1650
(2011)For over thirty years the study of Ireland‘s climate history has benefited from the availability of world class dendrochronological (tree ring) records, developed by Michael Baillie, David Brown and colleagues in Queen‘s ... -
Workshop Examines Climate Change and Human Response in the History of Western Eurasia from AD 1 to 1600
(2013)On November 28, the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past and the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) co-sponsored a day-long workshop on “Climate Change and Human Response in the History ...