The Medieval Quiet Period
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For several centuries in early Medieval times the climate system was relatively unperturbed by natural forcing factors, resulting in a unique period of climate stability. We argue that this represents a reference state for the Common Era, well before anthropogenic forcing became the dominant driver of the climate system.
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The Medieval Quiet Period (700-1000 CE) was defined based on the scarcity of major tropical volcanic eruptions and minimal perturbations in solar forcing.
“The Medieval Quiet Period (700-1000 Common Era (CE)) was defined based on the scarcity of major tropical volcanic eruptions and minimal perturbations in solar forcing 8 .”
From Decadal-to-centennial increases of volcanic aerosols from Iceland challenge the concept of a Medieval Quiet Period (2024) · cites this paper as [8]
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- Authors
- Bradley, R. S., Wanner, H., & Diaz, H. F.
- Affiliations
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (US)
- University of Bern (CH)
- NOAA/ERL/CIRES, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Corresponding author
- Bradley, Raymond S
- ORCID
- Bradley, Raymond S
- Venue
- The Holocene
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2016-01-22
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 990-993
- ISSN
- 0959-6836 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-0911
- OpenAlex
- W2315489330
- Cited by
- 55
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 4.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Holocene (publishedVersion)
- Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern) (submittedVersion)
- Open Access CRIS of the University of Bern
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Tree-ring climate responses
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate variability and models
- Keywords
- climate stability, natural climate forcing, anthropogenic forcing, Common Era climate
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