The ‘Little Ice Age’ glacial expansion in western Scandinavia – summer temperature or winter precipitation?
06.11.2007, 00:00
A group of scientists led by Atle Nesje at the Bjerknes Centre has shown in an article in press in Climate Dynamics that the main cause of the early 18th century glacial advance in western Scandinavia was probably mild and humid winters associated with increased precipitation and high snowfall on the glaciers rather than cold summers as previously suggested.