Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 30
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 ...
Extreme Weather, Climate and Natural Disasters in Ireland
(Environmental Protection Agency, 2010)
The aim of this project was to collate historical, proxy and observational (recent) records, and analyse the information within this variety of sources for incidences of extreme weather events and natural disasters, which ...
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 ...
Lunar Eclipses Illuminate Timing and Climate Impact of Medieval Volcanism
(Routledge, 2023)
Explosive volcanism is a key contributor to climate variability on interannual to centennial timescales1. Understanding the far-field societal impacts of eruption-forced climatic changes requires firm event chronologies ...
European Weather Extremes in the Lifetime of Charlemagne (c.742 - 814 CE)
(2013)
Charlemagne (c.742 – 814 CE) had such a successful political and military career that for the entire subsequent medieval period his reign was portrayed as a model one for all European rulers to aspire to. But for all his ...