Volcanism and Short-Term Climatic Change in East Asian and World History, c. 1200-1699(*).(Statistical Data Included)

From: Journal of World History | Date: March 22, 2001| Author: ATWELL, WILLIAM S. | Copyright information

There is ... a tendency for the North Atlantic zone of main cyclonic activity to be shifted somewhat south in the summers after great [volcanic] eruptions, this accounting for many, perhaps most, of the coldest, wettest summers of the last three hundred years in western Europe and eastern North America. The same probably applies to the North Pacific (Lamb 1982: 59).

[A] cold summer with excessive prolonged rains is the commonest cause of a failure in the harvest [in the ...

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