History and Climate

by Jones, P. D.; Ogilvie, Astrid E. J.; Davies, T. D.; Briffa, K. R.

• ISBN13: 9780306465895
• ISBN10: 0306465892
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp

Summary

Most studies of the impacts of climate change consider impacts in the future from anthropogenic climate change. Very few consider what the impacts of past climate change have been. History and Climate: Memories of the Future? contains 13 interdisciplinary chapters which consider impacts of change in different regions of the world, over the last millennium. Initial chapters assess evidence for the changes, while later chapters consider the impacts on agriculture, fisheries, health, and society. The book will be of interest to anyone working in the field of climate change and history.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Unlocking the Doors to the Past: Recent Developments in Climate and Climate-impact Research	1	(8)
P.D. Jones
A.E.J. Ogilvie
T.D. Davies
K.R. Briffa
PRE-INSTRUMENTAL OBSERVATIONS
Pre-instrumental Weather Observations in Poland in the 16th and 17th Centuries	9	(20)
A. Bokwa
D. Limanowka
J. Wibig
The Late Maunder Minimum (1675-1715) - climax of the ``Little Ice Age'' in Europe	29	(26)
J. Luterbacher
INSTRUMENTAL RECORDS
Early European Instrumental Records	55	(24)
P.D. Jones
Circulation Changes in Europe since the 1780s	79	(22)
J. Jacobeit
P. D. Jones
T. D. Davies
C. Beck
CLIMATE SYNTHESES
A millennium of Weather, Winds and Water in the Low Countries	101	(24)
A.F.V. van Engelen
J. Buisman
F. Ijnsen
Long Climatic Series from Austria	125	(28)
I. Auer
R. Bohm
W. Schoner
The Onset of the Little Ice Age	153	(34)
J.M. Grove
Sea Ice-Climate-Glacier Relationships in Northern Iceland Since the Nineteenth Century: Possible Analogues for the Holocene	187	(14)
M. Wastl
J Stotter
C. J. Caseldine
CLIMATE IMPACTS
The Impact of Short-term Climate Change on British and French Agriculture and Population in the First Half of the 18th Century	201	(18)
A. Michaelowa
Bons Baisers d'Islande: Climatic, Environmental, and Human Dimensions Impacts of the Lakagigar Eruption (1783-1784) in Iceland	219	(28)
G. R. Demaree
A. E. J. Ogilvie
The Effect of Climatic Variation on Pelagic Fish and Fisheries	247	(20)
J. Alheit
E. Hagen
Climate and Human Health Linkages on Multiple Timescales	267	(24)
H.F. Diaz
R.S. Kovats
A.J. McMichael
N. Nicholls
Index	291