Труды сотрудников ИЛ им. В.Н. Сукачева СО РАН

/ U. Buntgen [et al.] // Nat. Geosci. - 2016. - Vol. 9, Is. 3. - P231-236, DOI 10.1038/ngeo2652 . - ISSN 1752-0894
Аннотация: Climatic changes during the first half of the Common Era have been suggested to play a role in societal reorganizations in Europe and Asia. In particular, the sixth century coincides with rising and falling civilizations, pandemics, human migration and political turmoil. Our understanding of the magnitude and spatial extent as well as the possible causes and concurrences of climate change during this period is, however, still limited. Here we use tree-ring chronologies from the Russian Altai and European Alps to reconstruct summer temperatures over the past two millennia. We find an unprecedented, long-lasting and spatially synchronized cooling following a cluster of large volcanic eruptions in 536, 540 and 547 AD (ref.), which was probably sustained by ocean and sea-ice feedbacks, as well as a solar minimum. We thus identify the interval from 536 to about 660 AD as the Late Antique Little Ice Age. Spanning most of the Northern Hemisphere, we suggest that this cold phase be considered as an additional environmental factor contributing to the establishment of the Justinian plague, transformation of the eastern Roman Empire and collapse of the Sasanian Empire, movements out of the Asian steppe and Arabian Peninsula, spread of Slavic-speaking peoples and political upheavals in China. © 2016 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.

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Держатели документа:
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Bern, Switzerland
Global Change Research Centre AS CR, Brno, Czech Republic
Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
Department of History, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Initiative for the Science of the Human Past (SoHP), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, NJ, United States
Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, Villigen, Switzerland
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Institute for Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Geesthacht, Germany
Navarino Environmental Observatory, Messinia, Greece
Department of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Lausanne, Switzerland
Department of Linguistics and Information Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Department of Geography, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
Laboratory for Ion Beam Physics, ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland
Department of Forest Growth, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany
VN Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation

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Buntgen, U.; Myglan, V. S.; Ljungqvist, F. C.; McCormick, M.; Di Cosmo, N.; Sigl, M.; Jungclaus, J.; Wagner, S.; Krusic, P. J.; Esper, J.; Kaplan, J. O.; De Vaan, M. A.C.; Luterbacher, J.; Wacker, L.; Tegel, W.; Kirdyanov, A. V.