Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
The Holocene
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Alcoforado, M.-J.
Right arrow Articles by Taborda, J. P.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
GeoRef
Right arrow GeoRef Citation
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Temperature and precipitation reconstruction in southern Portugal during the late Maunder Minimum (AD 1675–1715)

Maria-João Alcoforado

Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Universidade de Lisboa (FLUL), Alameda da Universidade, 1600–214 Lisboa, Portugal

Maria de Fátima Nunes

Departamento de História, Palácio do Vimioso, Apartado 94, Universidade de Évora, 7001 Évora, Portugal

João Carlos Garcia

Departamento de Geografia, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto, Via Panorâmica, 4000 Porto, Portugal

João Paulo Taborda

Escola Secundária Gabriel Pereira, Rua Dr. Domingos Rosado, Z.urb. 3, 7000 Évora, Portugal

This paper discusses the research carried out to check the climatic characteristics of the late Maunder Minimum (LMM) (AD 1675–1715) in the southwestern part of the Iberian Peninsula and as an aid towards pressure patterns reconstruction in the NE Atlantic and Europe. Documentary evidence reveals that interannual precipitation variability was similar to the present one, although some very severe dry periods occurred (particularly one in 1694). On the other hand, during the LMM there was a higher percentage of cold winter months, some of them with snowfall. A brief comparison is made with other areas from the Mediterranean. The relationships between weather similarities and differences for particular months is analysed in the light of the reconstructed synoptical patterns, and further research into historical climatic change of southern Europe is suggested.

Key Words: Maunder Minimum • climatic reconstruction • Portugal • Mediterranean area • documentary data

The Holocene, Vol. 10, No. 3, 333-340 (2000)
DOI: 10.1191/095968300674442959
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?