The Year without a summer? world climate in 1816 edited by C.R. Harrington

Object Details

Author

Harington, C. R (Charles Richard) 1933-

Contents

Before Tambora : the sun and climate, 1790-1830 / John A. Eddy -- Eyewitness account of the distant effects of the Tambora eruption of April 1815 / Michael R. Rampino -- The eruption of Tambora in 1815 : environmental effects and eruption dynamics / Haraldur Sigurdsson and Steven Carey -- The possible effects of the Tambora eruption in 1815 on atmospheric thermal and chemical structure and surface climate / R.K.R. Vupputuri -- Climatic effects of the 1783 Laki eruption / Charles A. Wood -- The effects of major volcanic eruptions on Canadian surface temperatures / Walter R. Skinner -- Climate in 1816 and 1811-20 as reconstructed from western North American tree-ring chronologies / J.M. Lough -- Volcanic effects on Colorado Plateau Douglas-fir tree rings / Malcolm K. Cleaveland -- 1816 in perspective : the view from the northeastern United States / William A. Baron -- Expansion of Toronto temperature time-series from 1840 to 1778 using various United States and other data / R.B. Crowe -- Climate in Canada, 1809-20 : three approaches to the Hudson's Bay Company archives as an historical database / Cynthia Wilson -- Climatic change, droughts and their social impact : central Canada, 1811-20, a classic example / Timothy F. Ball -- The year without a summer : its impact on the fur trade and history of western Canada / Timothy F. Ball -- The ecology of a famine : northwestern Ontario in 1815-17 / Roger Suffling and Ron Fritz -- The development and testing of a methodology for extracting sea-ice data from ships' log-books / Marcia Faurer -- River ice and sea ice in the Hudson Bay region during the second decade of the nineteenth century / A.J.W. Catchpole -- The climate of the Labrador Sea in the spring and summer of 1816, and comparisons with modern analogues / John P. Newell -- Spatial patterns of tree-growth anomalies from the North American boreal treeline in the early 1800s, including the year 1816 / Gordon C. Jacoby Jr. and Rosanne D'Arrigo -- Early nineteenth-century tree-ring series from treeline sites in the middle Canadian Rockies / B.H. Luckman and M.E. Colenutt -- How did treeline white spruce at Churchill, Manitoba respond to conditions around 1816? / David C. Fayle, Catherine V. Bentley and Peter A. Scott -- The climate of central Canada and southwestern Europe reconstructed by combining various types of proxy data : a detailed analysis of the 1810-20 period / J. Guiot -- Climatic conditions for the period surrounding the Tambora signal in ice cores from the Canadian High Arctic islands / Bea Taylor Alt, David A. Fisher and Roy M. Koerner -- 1816 -- a year without a summer in Iceland? / A.E.J. Ogilvie -- First essay at reconstructing the general atmospheric circulation in 1816 and the early nineteenth century / H.H. Lamb -- Weather patterns over Europe in 1816 / John Kington -- The climate of Europe during the 1810s with special reference to 1816 / K.R. Briffa and P.D. Jones -- The 1810s in the Baltic region, 1816 in particular : air temperatures, grain supply and mortality / J. Neumann -- The years without a summer in Switzerland : 1628 and 1816 / Christian Pfister -- Climatic conditions of 1815 and 1816 from tree-ring analysis in the Tatra Mountains / Zdzisław Bednarz and Janina Trepińska -- Major volcanic eruptions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and temperatures in Central Europe / Vladimir Brůžek -- Climate over India during the first quarter of the nineteenth century / G.B. Pant, B. Parthasarathy and N.A. Sontakke -- Evidence for anomalous cold weather in China 1815-17 / Pei-Yuan Zhang, Wei-Chyung Wang and Sultan Hameed -- Was there a colder summer in China in 1816? / Huang Jiayou -- The reconstructed position of the polar frontal zone around Japan in the summer of 1816 / Yasufumi Tsukamura -- The climate of Japan in 1816 as compared with an extremely cool summer climate in 1783 / T. Mikami and Y. Tsukamura -- Evidence for changes in climate and environment in 1816 as recorded in ice cores from the Quelccaya ice cap, Peru, the Dunde ice cap, China and Siple Station, Antarctica / Lonnie G. Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson -- Changes in southern South American tree-ring chronologies following major volcanic eruptions between 1750 and 1970 / Ricardo Villalba and Jose A. Boninsegna -- Tree-ring chronologies from endemic Australian and New Zealand conifers 1800-30 / Jonathan Palmer and John Ogden -- New Zealand temperatures, 1800-30 / David A. Norton -- Workshop on World Climate in 1816 : a summary and discussion of results / Cynthia Wilson

Summary

The objective of the meeting was, by bringing together workers in various fields (e.g., volcanologists, glaciologists, climatologists, tree-ring experts, geographers, historians and biologists) from various countries, to gain the clearest picture possible of weather and climatic sequences in different parts of the world during 1816, or about that time (e.g., 1810-20), in an effort to discover key factors influencing the unusual weather then. Intended to discuss historical climate (particularly that of the Little Ice Age) and its human impact; relationships between volcanism and climate; and the ways paleoclimatic proxy data are gathered, treated and interpreted

1992

Call number

QC981.8.V65 Y39 1992

QC981.8.V65Y39 1992

Type

Observations

Physical description

576 pages illustrations 28 cm

Place

Tambora, Mount (Indonesia)

Tambora (Indonésie : Mont)

Indonesia

Mount Tambora

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Climatology

Weather--Effect of volcanic eruptions on

Summer

Temps (Météorologie), Effets des éruptions volcaniques sur le--Cas, Études de

Climatologie

Temps (Météorologie)--Effets des éruptions volcaniques sur

Été

summer (season)

Eruption, 1815

Éruption, 1815

climate

Environmental factors

volcanic activity

Record ID

siris_sil_432069

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0