Chapter 1 Unlocking the Doors to the Past: Recent Developments in Climate and Climate Impact Research

Chapter 2 Pre-Instrumental Weather Observations in Poland in the 16 th and 17 th Centuries

Chapter 3 The Late Maunder Minimum (1675–1715) — Climax of the ‘Little Ice Age’ in Europe

Chapter 4 Early European Instrumental Records

Chapter 5 Circulation Changes in Europe since the 1780s

Chapter 6 A Millennium of Weather, Winds and Water in the Low Countries

Chapter 7 Long Climatic series from Austria

Chapter 8 The Onset of the Little Ice Age

Chapter 9 Sea Ice-Climate-Glacier Relationships in Northern Iceland since the Nineteenth Century: Possible Analogues for the Holocene

Chapter 10 The Impact of Short-Term Climate Change on British and French Agriculture and Population in the First Half of the 18 th Century

Chapter 12 The Effect of Climatic Variation on Pelagic Fish and Fisheries

Chapter 13 Climate and Human Health Linkages on Multiple Timescales