Climatic Variability in Sixteenth-Century Europe and Its Social Dimension - Couverture rigide

 
9780792359340: Climatic Variability in Sixteenth-Century Europe and Its Social Dimension
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ISBN 10 : 0792359348 ISBN 13 : 9780792359340
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

A multidecadal cooling is known to have occurred in Europe in the final decades of the sixteenth-century. It is still open to debate as to what might have caused the underlying shifts in atmospheric circulation and how these changes affected societies. This book is the fruit of interdisciplinary cooperation among 37 scientists including climatologists, hydrologists, glaciologists, dendroclimatologists, and economic and cultural historians. The known documentary climatic evidence from six European countries is compared to results of tree-ring studies. Seasonal temperature and precipitation are estimated from this data and monthly mean surface pressure patterns in the European area are reconstructed for outstanding anomalies. Results are compared to fluctuations of Alpine glaciers and to changes in the frequency of severe floods and coastal storms. Moreover, the impact of climate change on grain prices and wine production is assessed. Finally, it is convincingly argued that witches at that time were burnt as scapegoats for climatic change.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A multidecadal cooling is known to have occurred in Europe in the final decades of the sixteenth-century. It is still open to debate as to what might have caused the underlying shifts in atmospheric circulation and how these changes affected societies. This book is the fruit of interdisciplinary cooperation among 37 scientists including climatologists, hydrologists, glaciologists, dendroclimatologists, and economic and cultural historians. The known documentary climatic evidence from six European countries is compared to results of tree-ring studies. Seasonal temperature and precipitation are estimated from this data and monthly mean surface pressure patterns in the European area are reconstructed for outstanding anomalies. Results are compared to fluctuations of Alpine glaciers and to changes in the frequency of severe floods and coastal storms. Moreover, the impact of climate change on grain prices and wine production is assessed. Finally, it is convincingly argued that witches at that time were burnt as scapegoats for climatic change.

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Éditeur
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0792359348
ISBN 13 
9780792359340
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
360
Éditeur
Pfister Christian, Brázdil Rudolf, Glaser Rüdiger
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ISBN 10 :  9048153069 ISBN 13 :  9789048153060
Editeur : Springer, 2010
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