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ID: 901002040
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002040
Record Type: Event/Narrative

Medieval Climate Anomaly (natural event, ca. 950-1250 CE)

Note: Disruption of climate to an average temperature warmer than normal, that occurred roughly 950-1250 CE; believed to have been coextensive with a persistent positive mode of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).

Display Date: roughly 950-1250 CE

Names:
Medieval Climate Anomaly (natural event, ca. 950-1250 CE) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
MCA (natural event, ca. 950-1250 CE) (not applicable)

Hierarchical Position:
Named Events (P)
....<Global historical events> (P)
........Medieval Climate Anomaly (natural event, ca. 950-1250 CE) (I)
Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... warming periods (global events)
.....(natural events, events (activities), Events (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Medieval Climate Anomaly (natural event, ca. 950-1250 CE)
................Langer, Encyclopedia of World History (1980)
................Rijksmuseum [online] (2000-)
................Mann et al, Global signatures of Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly (2009) title
................Moreno et al, Medieval Climate Anomaly in the Iberian Peninsula (2012)
MCA (natural event, ca. 950-1250 CE)
................Moreno et al, Medieval Climate Anomaly in the Iberian Peninsula (2012)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Mann et al, Global signatures of Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly (2009)
................ Moreno et al, Medieval Climate Anomaly in the Iberian Peninsula (2012)

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