New ice core evidence for a volcanic cause of the A.D. 536 dust veil

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 12 10:54:07 EST 2009

A 2008 paper in AGU’s Geophysical Research Letters presents
an alternative interpretation of ice core evidence to that
discussed in “[meteorite-list] Comet smashes triggered ancient
famine ???” can be found in:

Larsen, L. B., B. M. Vinther, K. R. Briffa, T. M. Melvin, H. B.
Clausen, P. D. Jones, M.-L. Siggaard-Andersen, C. U. Hammer,
M. Eronen, H. Grudd, B. E. Gunnarson, R. M. Hantemirov,
M. M. Naurzbaev, and K. Nicolussi, 2008, New ice core
evidence for a volcanic cause of the A.D. 536 dust veil.
Geophysical Research Letters. vol. 35, no. L04708,
doi:10.1029/2007GL032450, 2008

http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2008/2007GL032450.shtml
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008GeoRL..3504708L

This paper is discussed in “536 AD and all that” at:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/03/536-ad-and-all-that/

and “Comments on: 536 AD and all that” at:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/03/536-ad-and-all-that/feed/

It should be interesting to how these differences of opinions
are resolved in the future.

Some related articles are:

1. Axboe, M., 1999, The year 536 and the Scandinavian gold
hoards. Medieval archaeology. vol. 43, pp. 186-188.

Link and TOC at:
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/ARCHway/toc.cfm?rcn=1089&vol=43

PDF file at:
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-769-1/ahds/dissemination/pdf/vol43/43_186_188.pdf

2. D'Arrigo, R., D. Frank, G. Jacoby and N. Pederson, 2001,
Spatial Response to Major Volcanic Events in or about AD 536,
934 and 1258: Frost Rings and Other Dendrochronological
Evidence from Mongolia and Northern Siberia: Comment on
R. B. Stothers, ‘Volcanic Dry Fogs, Climate Cooling, and
Plague Pandemics in Europe and the Middle East’ (Climatic
Change, 42, 1999). Climate Change. vol. 49, no. 1-2,
pp 239-246.

Abstract at:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/lj2k364539rl5613/ and link at
http://www.pitt.edu/~mrosenme/Mongolia_Workshop/links.htm

PDF file at:
http://www.pitt.edu/AFShome/m/r/mrosenme/public/html/Mongolia_workshop/D_Arrigo_et_al_2001.pdf

3. Grattan, J. P., and F. B. Pyattb, 1999, Volcanic eruptions dry
fogs and the European palaeoenvironmental record: localised
phenomena or hemispheric impacts? Global and Planetary
Change. vol. 21, no. 1-3, pp. 173-179.

Abstract at:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999GPC....21..173G

PDF file at:
http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/2160/226/1/env%20impact%20of%20volcanic%20gases1.pdf

4. Mardon, 1997, The mystery of the 536 A.D. dust veil event:
Was it a cometary or meteorite impact? Large Meteorite
Impacts and Planetary Evolution: Sudbury 1997 Conference
Abstract Volume. Sudbury, September 3, 1997

Citation is “English*Published material that has appeared in print”
at: http://www.austinmardon.org/page2.htm

Pdf file at:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/impacts97/pdf/6019.pdf

5. Stothers, R. B., 1999, Volcanic Dry Fogs, Climate Cooling,
and Plague Pandemics in Europe and the Middle East. Climatic
Change, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 713-723.

Abstract at:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/p79818w71777m113/

6. Braille, M., 2007, The case for significant numbers of
extraterrestrial impacts through the late Holocene. Journal
of Quaternary Science. vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 101-109.
Abstract at:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007JQS....22..101B

PDF file at:
http://tsun.sscc.ru/hiwg/PABL/Baillie_2007_JQS.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.