Articles | Volume 19, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-2463-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-2463-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Climatic signatures in early modern European grain harvest yields
Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of History, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Linneanum, Thunbergsvägen 2, 752 38 Uppsala, Sweden
Bo Christiansen
Danish Meteorological Institute, Sankt Kjelds Plads 11, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
Jan Esper
Department of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Global Change Research Institute (CzechGlobe), Czech Academy of Sciences, 603 00, Brno, Czech Republic
Heli Huhtamaa
Institute of History, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Lotta Leijonhufvud
Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, Box 100, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
currently at: Upplands-Bro Municipality, 196 81 Kungsängen, Sweden
Christian Pfister
Institute of History, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Andrea Seim
Chair of Forest Growth and Dendroecology, Institute of Forest Sciences, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Martin Karl Skoglund
Division of Agrarian History, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Peter Thejll
Danish Meteorological Institute, Sankt Kjelds Plads 11, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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Short summary
We study the climate signal in long harvest series from across Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries. The climate–harvest yield relationship is found to be relatively weak but regionally consistent and similar in strength and sign to modern climate–harvest yield relationships. The strongest climate–harvest yield patterns are a significant summer soil moisture signal in Sweden, a winter temperature and precipitation signal in Switzerland, and spring temperature signals in Spain.
We study the climate signal in long harvest series from across Europe between the 16th and 18th...