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- DictionaryLit·tle Ice Age/lidl īs āj/
noun
- 1. a period of colder climate and increased glaciation occurring between warmer periods, in particular one such period which reached its peak during the 17th century.
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May 24, 2024 · Little Ice Age (LIA), climate interval that occurred from the early 14th century through the mid-19th century, when mountain glaciers expanded at several locations, including the European Alps, New Zealand, Alaska, and the southern Andes, and mean annual temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere.
Feb 20, 2024 · Although some researchers argue it may have begun earlier, NASA defines the Little Ice Age as beginning around 1550 and consisting of three cold peaks—around 1650, 1770...
The Effects of the Little Ice Age (c. 1300-1850) The Little Ice Age was a period of wide-spread cooling that lasted from the end of the Medieval Warm Period early in the 14 century, until the present-day warming trend that started in the middle to late 19th century (graph below).
Feb 29, 2024 · The meaning of LITTLE ICE AGE is an episode of glacial expansion whose maximum extension occurred in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Mar 25, 2019 · During this epoch, often known as the Little Ice Age, temperatures dropped by as much as two degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Compared with the extremes of...
