Chapter 1 “Little Ice Age” Research: A Perspective from Iceland

Chapter 2 The Initiation of the “Little Ice Age” in Regions Round the North Atlantic

Chapter 3 Oceanographic Change and Terrestrial Human Impacts in a Post A.D. 1400 Sediment Record from the Southwest Iceland Shelf

Chapter 4 The Time Period A.D. 1400–1980 in Central Greenland Ice Cores in Relation to the North Atlantic Sector

Chapter 5 The “Little Ice Age” and Its Geomorphological Consequences in Mediterranean Europe

Chapter 7 Can Lichenometry be Used to Date the “Little Ice Age” Glacial Maximum in Iceland?

Chapter 8 Early Instrumental Meteorological Observations in Iceland

Chapter 9 The Tallinn Temperature Series Reconstructed Back Half a Millennium by Use of Proxy Data

Chapter 10 Reconstruction of Nineteenth Century Summer Temperatures in Norway by Proxy Data from Farmers’ Diaries

Chapter 11 Zonal Indices for Europe 1780–1995 and Running Correlations with Temperature

Chapter 12 A Quantitative Assessment of Buffers among Temperature Variations, Livestock, and the Human Population of Iceland, 1784 to 1900