Little Ice Age - Wikipedia
WEBThe Little Ice Age, by the anthropologist Brian Fagan of the University of California at Santa Barbara, describes the plight of European peasants from 1300 to 1850: famines, hypothermia, bread riots and the rise of despotic leaders brutalizing an increasingly dispirited peasantry.
Little Ice Age (LIA) | Britannica
WEBLittle Ice Age (LIA), climate interval that occurred from the early 14th century through the mid-19th century, when mountain glaciers expanded at several locations, including the European Alps, New Zealand, Alaska, and the southern Andes, and mean annual temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere.
What Was the Little Ice Age? | Britannica - Encyclopedia Britannica
WEBThe Little Ice Age is known for its effects in Europe and the North Atlantic region over hundreds of years, but was it comparable to past ice ages?
The Effects of the Little Ice Age (c. 1300-1850)
WEBThe Little Ice Age was a period of wide-spread cooling that lasted from the end of the Medieval Warm Period early in the 14th century, until the present-day warming trend that started in the middle to late 19th century (graph below).
The Little Ice Age: What Happened Around the World
WEBMay 15, 2019 · The term “Little Ice Age” was coined by Dutch-born American geologist F.E. Matthes in 1939. The LIA began around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850 CE. Within that stretch, NASA’s Earth...
Little Ice Age - EH Resources
WEBJun 5, 2015 · The Little Ice Age was a period of regionally cold conditions between roughly AD 1300 and 1850. The term “Little Ice Age” is somewhat questionable, because there was no single, well-defined period of prolonged cold.
WEBThe 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 series of mountain glacier advances and retreats, analogous to, though considerably more moderate than, the Pleistocene glacial fluctuations.
Little Ice Age: What caused it? - EarthSky
WEBAug 9, 2012 · The Little Ice Age is the name for a period of widespread cooling on Earth. Scientists don’t agree on when it started and ended, but it’s generally agreed to have lasted into the 19th century.
Split westerlies over Europe in the early Little Ice Age
WEBAug 20, 2022 · The Little Ice Age (LIA; ca. 1450–1850 C.E.) is the best documented cold period of the past millennium, characterized by high-frequency volcanism, low solar activity, and high variability of...
Little Ice Age - Encyclopedia.com
WEBMay 23, 2018 · Little Ice Age A period between about 1550 and 1860 during which the climate of the middle latitudes became generally harsher and there was a worldwide expansion of glaciers. The effects have been recorded in the Alps, Norway, and Iceland, where farm land and buildings were destroyed.
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