KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE PUBLICATION OF:
The Iceberg in the Mist: Northern Research in Pursuit of a
"Little Ice Age"
edited by A.E.J. Ogilvie, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, USA, and Trausti
Junsson, Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland
Reprinted from CLIMATIC CHANGE, 48:1
The term 'Little Ice Age' was originally used by glaciologists to
describe the most recent major glacial advance of the Holocene.
Subsequently, the 'Little Ice Age' has come to be associated with a
period of advances of European glaciers between about 1450 to 1850, as
well as with relatively cooler temperatures. The issue of whether or not
this concept remains accurate is a major theme of many of the papers
included in this volume.
The main geographical focus is on the North Atlantic and European
sectors, and includes research from a number of different palaeoclimatic
fields. Examples are the use of documentary sources, early instrumental
records, grain-harvest data, fossil-insect data, ice-core records,
glacial evidence, lichenometry, synoptic climatology, and also the human
dimensions of climate change. The papers presented reflect
state-of-the-art knowledge, as well as thought-provoking new insights
into these subject areas. The book will be of value to all those
interested in the above topics and in the overall themes of climate
variability and global change.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6796-0
December 2000, 270 pp.
EUR 88.50 / USD 95.00 / GBP 60.00
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