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SUBMITTER: Moreno-Chamarro E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5577174 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Moreno-Chamarro Eduardo E Zanchettin Davide D Lohmann Katja K Luterbacher Jürg J Jungclaus Johann H JH
Scientific reports 20170830 1
Climate reconstructions reveal a strong winter amplification of the cooling over central and northern continental Europe during the Little Ice Age period (LIA, here defined as c. 16th-18th centuries) via persistent, blocked atmospheric conditions. Although various potential drivers have been suggested to explain the LIA cooling, no coherent mechanism has yet been proposed for this seasonal contrast. Here we demonstrate that such exceptional wintertime conditions arose from sea ice expansion and ...[more]