A new study of the Little Ice Age (LIA), a global climatic event between CE 1671-1942, has revealed that the age was wet and not uniformly cold and dry.
According to the Department of Science and Technology, the study of the LIA, shows significant variations of rainfall patterns during that age, and challenges the conventional notion of a uniformly cold and dry climate with reduced monsoon rainfall during the LIA.
“The Western Ghats experiences both the south-west summer monsoon (SWM) during June to September and the north-east winter monsoon (NEM) during October to December. Understanding the vegetation dynamics and corresponding hydro-climate variability from such an area, which was influenced by both the SWM and NEM, could be crucial in understanding the monsoonal variability during the last millennium,” states the department.
