The Medieval Warm Period

This volume addresses the issue of whether there really was a Medieval Warm Period, and if so, where and when. The types of evidence examined include historical documents, tree rings, ice cores, glacial-geological records, borehole temperature and palaeoecological data.

Was there a `Medieval Warm Period'', and if so, Where and When? M.K. Hughes, H.F. Diaz. Glacial Geological Evidence for the Medieval Warm Period; J.M. Grove, R. Switsur. Evidence for Climatic Conditions between ca. 900--1300 A.D. in the Southern Canadian Rockies; B.H. Luckman. Tree-Ring and Glacial Evidence for the Medieval Warm Epoch and the Little Ice Age in Southern South America; R. Villalba. Tree-Ring Reconstructed Rainfall over the Southeastern U.S.A. during the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age; D.W. Stahle, M.K. Cleaveland. Middle Ages Temperature Reconstructions in Europe, a Focus on Northeastern Italy; F. Serre-Bachet. The Medieval Warm Period on the Southern Colorado Plateau; J.S. Dean. A Warm and Wet Little Climatic Optimum and a Cold and Dry Little Ice Age in the Southern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A.; K.L. Petersen. The Correlation of Summer Precipitation in the Southwestern U.S.A. with Isotopic Records of Solar Activity during the Medieval Warm Period; O.K. Davis. Evidence for the Existence of the Medieval Warm Period in China; Zhang De''er. Major Wet Interval in White Mountains Medieval Warm Period Evidenced in delta13C of Bristlecone Pine Tree Rings; S.W. Leavitt. The Medieval Solar Activity Maximum; J.L. Kirikowic, P.E. Damon. An Analysis of the Time Scales of Variability in Centuries-Long ENSI-Sensitive Records in the Last 1000 Years; H.F. Diaz, R.S. Pulwarty.