Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly

Michael E. Mann
Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA

Zhihua Zhang
Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA (now at NOAA)

Scott Rutherford
Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI

Raymond S. Bradley
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Malcolm K. Hughes
University of Arizone, Tucson, AZ

Drew Shindell
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY

Caspar Ammann
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO

Greg Faluvegi
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY

Fenbiao Ni
University of Arizone, Tucson, AZ

Article:

Mann, M.E., Zhang, Z., Rutherford, S., Bradley, R.S., Hughes, M.K., Shindell, D., Ammann, C., Faluvegi, G., Ni, F., Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly, Science, 326, 1256-1260, 2009.

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