Climate in Medieval Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23325209 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raymond S Bradley (0000-0002-4032-9519, R. S. Bradley is in the Climate System Research Center, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.), Malcolm K Hughes (0000-0003-1062-3167), Henry F Díaz (0000-0001-6767-3179, H. F. Diaz is in the Climate Diagnostics Center, Office of Atmospheric Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO 80303, USA.) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 302 |
| Issue | 5644 |
| Pages | 404-405 |
| Publication date | 2003-10-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-8075 • E-ISSN: 0193-4511 |
| Publisher | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1126/science.1090372 |
| PMID | 14563996 |
| OpenAlex | W2146937853 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 79 |
| References cited | 12 |
Many papers have referred to a "Medieval Warm Period." But how well defined is climate in this period, and was it as warm as or warmer than it is today? In their Perspective, Bradley et al. review the evidence and conclude that although the High Medieval (1100 to 1200 A.D.) was warmer than subsequent centuries, it was not warmer than the late 20th century. Moreover, the warmest Medieval temperatures were not synchronous around the globe. Large changes in precipitation patterns are a particular characteristic of "High Medieval" time. The underlying mechanisms for such changes must be elucidated further to inform the ongoing debate on natural climate variability and anthropogenic climate change.
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Evidence of NAO control on subsurface ice accumulation in a 1200 yr old cave-ice sequence, St. Livres ice cave, Switzerland
Dendroclimatology of Yellow-Cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis) and Temperature Variability on the Western Slopes of the North Cascades in Washington State, USA, from 1333 to 2015 CE
A multi-proxy paleolimnological reconstruction of Holocene climate conditions in the Great Basin, United States
Late Holocene high resolution palaeoclimatic reconstruction inferred from Sebkha Mhabeul, southeast Tunisia
Developmental perspectives on neurocranial proportions in Japan
La configuración del paisaje cultural durante la Alta Edad Media (siglos V-XI)
El calentamiento global devuelve la viña a tierras polacas
O outro lado do paraíso
The Waning of the Little Ice Age
Early Influence of the Steppe Tribes in the Peopling of Siberia
The environmental history of a former salt town in Transylvania (Sic, Northern Romania)
The Great Transition
Last nine-thousand years of temperature variability in Northern Europe
Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia
Structure and origin of Holocene cold events
European Seasonal and Annual Temperature Variability, Trends, and Extremes Since 1500
Mid- to Late Holocene climate change
Climate over past millennia
Historical Climatology In Europe – The State Of The Art
A 1500-year reconstruction of annual mean temperature for temperate North America on decadal-to-multidecadal time scales
Bioarchaeological and Palynological Studies of Graves from Samshvilde
Climate models as a test bed for climate reconstruction methods
A noodle, hockey stick, and spaghetti plate
The climate of the past millennium and online public engagement in a scientific debate
A Tale Of a Dog
What Are We Measuring in the Zooarchaeological Record of Prehispanic Fishing Strategies in the Georgia Bight, USA
An Introduction to Medieval Environmental History
Minimizing the edge-effect in environmental reconstructions by trimming the calibration set
Natural and anthropogenic factors affecting intense slope processes in Eastern Europe during the Modern Period
The response of a jack pine forest to late-Holocene climate variability in northwestern Wisconsin
Utilizing physical sediment variability in glacier-fed lakes for continuous glacier reconstructions during the Holocene, northern Folgefonna, western Norway
Paleoclimate of the Southern Adriatic Sea region during the ‘Medieval Climate Anomaly’ reflected by organic walled dinoflagellate cysts
Holocene fire-related alluvial-fan deposition and climate in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, USA
Hydroclimate variability and human influence in southern Yemen over the past 1100 years
New correlation of stable carbon isotopes with changing late-Holocene fluvial environments in the Trinity River basin of Texas, USA
A 1000-yr record of forest fire activity from Eclipse Icefield, Yukon, Canada
Diatom evidence of climatic change in Holsteinsborg Dyb, west of Greenland, during the last 1200 years
The late-Holocene vegetation history of the Central Caspian (Hyrcanian) forests of northern Iran
Climate-induced treeline mortality during the termination of the Little Ice Age in the Greater Yellowstone Ecoregion, USA
Influence of climate change and human activities on the organic and inorganic composition of peat during the ‘Little Ice Age’ (El Payo mire, W Spain)
Years of decadal-scale variability of Mediterranean vegetation and climate at Pantelleria Island, Italy
Holocene history of landscape development in the catchment of Lake Skogstjern, southeastern Norway, based on a high-resolution multi-proxy record
A quantitative high-resolution summer temperature reconstruction based on sedimentary pigments from Laguna Aculeo, central Chile, back to AD 850
Late-Holocene paleoclimate and treeline fluctuation in Wyoming’s Wind River Range, USA
Late-Holocene relationships among fire, climate and vegetation in a forest-sagebrush ecotone of southwestern Idaho, USA
Disentangling the Medieval Climatic Anomaly in Patagonia and its impact on human societies
Buried Podzols as a pedostratigraphic marker for the Medieval Climatic Optimum
Nothofagus forest dynamics and palaeoenvironmental variations during the mid and late Holocene, in southwest Patagonia
A paleoecological perspective on 1450 years of human impacts from a lake in southern Greenland
The Medieval Quiet Period
Expansion of outlet glaciers of the Juneau Icefield in northwest British Columbia during the past two millennia
Holocene sea level and climate interactions on wet dune slack evolution in SW Portugal
Climate, palaeohydrology and land use change in the Central Iberian Range over the last 1.6 kyr
The glacier advance at the onset of the Little Ice Age in the Alps
High-resolution palynology, climate change and human impact on a late Holocene peat bog on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada
Differences in forest composition following two periods of settlement by pre-Columbian Native Americans
X-ray microdensitometry applied to subfossil tree-rings
Marine trophic levels targeted between AD 300 and 1500 on the Georgia coast, USA
What really caused the Viking Age? The social content of raiding and exploration
Anthropogenic and climatic impact on Holocene sediment dynamics in SE Spain
Notches in the Northern Adriatic Sea
The Late-Holocene climate change, vegetation dynamics, lake-level changes and anthropogenic impacts in the Lake Urmia region, NW Iran
Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic changes of Engir Lake (Central Anatolia) and its surroundings during the last 1090 years
Late Holocene monsoonal-climate change inferred from Lakes Ni-no-Megata and San-no-Megata, northeastern Japan
Extreme Nile floods and famines in Medieval Egypt (AD 930–1500) and their climatic implications
Environmental changes based on multi-proxy analysis of core sediments in Lake Aktaş, Turkey
High resolution palaeoecological records for climatic and environmental changes during the last 1350 years from Manzherok Lake, western foothills of the Altai Mountains, Russia
Climate changes and flood/drought risk in the Yangtze Delta, China, during the past millennium
Climatic change and its influence on human society in western Japan during the Holocene
Dirt road
A multiproxy lake record from Inner Mongolia displays a late Holocene teleconnection between Central Asian and North Atlantic climates
Tras la pista de “terribles veranos” y “copiosas lluvias”. Elementos para una historia climática del territorio colombiano
The Colonisation of Uplands in Medieval Britain and Ireland
Radiocarbon dating of musk-ox ( Ovibos moschatus ) bones from the Thule region, northwest Greenland
The history and impacts of farming activities in south Greenland
A Comparison of Charcoal and Archaeological Information to Address the Influences on Holocene Fire Activity in the Sydney Basin
A Dynamic History of Climate Change and Human Impact on the Environment from Keālia Pond, Maui, Hawaiian Islands
Pre-Hispanic Maya fisheries and coastal adaptations in the northern lowlands from the Classic (500-900 AD) to Postclassic (900-1400 AD) periods
What caused the Viking Age
Extreme and persistent drought in California and Patagonia during mediaeval time
Southward Migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone Through the Holocene
The early medieval warm epoch and its sequel
Northern hemisphere temperatures during the past millennium
Was there a ?medieval warm period?, and if so, where and when?
| Unique citing works | 79 |
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| Citations per year | 3,59 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 68 |