Volcanoes and the Climate Forcing of Carolingian Europe, A.D. 750-950
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Historical records cite the winters of the same and subsequent years of the pronounced cooling anomaly (762-764 CE) among the harshest of the Common Era, with widespread frost and ice, crop failures, and famines documented from Ireland to the Black Sea.
“Historical records cite the winters of the same and subsequent years of this pronounced cooling anomaly (762-764 CE) among the harshest of the Common Era, with widespread frost and ice, crop failures, and famines documented from Ireland to the Black Sea [64][65][66] (see Fig. 2).”
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