Late-eighteenth-century precipitation reconstructions from James Madison's Montpelier plantation

From: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Tree-ring and meteorological diary reconstructions express a common climatic signal and suggest a shift in the seasonality of precipitation from Madison's era to the mid-twentieth century.

As early colonialists crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Europe to North America, they carried preconceived notions on the variation of climate with latitude. Perhaps not surprisingly, they expected to encounter the same climatic conditions at the same latitudes in the New World as they had experienced in the Old World (Kupperman 1982). While the Gulf Stream's moderating effect on the climate of Europe is now ...

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