Ƙananan Shekarar Ice

Little Ice Age (LIA) wani lokaci ne na sanyaya yanki, musamman a yankin Arewacin Atlantic. Ba zamanin kankara na gaskiya ba ne na duniya. François E. Matthes ne ya gabatar da kalmar a cikin wallafe-wallafen kimiyya a cikin 1939. An bayyana lokacin ne a al'ada kamar yadda ya kai daga ƙarni na 16 zuwa 19,    amma wasu masana sun fi son wani madadin lokaci daga kimanin 1300  zuwa kimanin 1850.    [5]

NASA Earth Observatory ya lura da lokuta uku na sanyi. Ɗaya ya fara ne game da 1650, wani game da 1770, kuma na ƙarshe a cikin 1850, dukansu an raba su da ɗan gajeren zafi."Earth observatory Glossary L–N". NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Green Belt, Maryland: NASA. Retrieved 17 July 2015. Rahoton Bincike na Uku na Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ya yi la'akari da cewa lokacin da yankunan da LIA ta shafa sun ba da shawarar sauye-sauyen yanayi na yanki masu zaman kansu, maimakon karuwar kankara a duniya. A mafi yawancin, akwai sanyaya mai sauƙi na Arewacin Hemisphere a lokacin."Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis". UNEP/GRID-Arendal. Archived from the original on 29 May 2006. Retrieved 2 August 2007.

An gabatar da dalilai da yawa: ƙarancin cyclical a cikin hasken rana, haɓakar aikin dutsen wuta, canje-canje a cikin yaduwar teku, bambance-bambance a cikin yanayin duniya da kuma karkatawar axial (tilastawar orbital), bambancin yanayi na duniya, da raguwa a cikin yawan mutane (kamar daga kisan kiyashi na Genghis Khan, Black Death da annoba da ke fitowa a Amurka a kan tuntuɓar Turai ).

 Yankunan da ke ciki 
Kwamitin Intergovernmental kan Rahoton Bincike na Uku na Canjin Yanayi (TAR) na 2001 ya bayyana yankunan da abin ya shafa:

 Yin soyayya 
Babu wata yarjejeniya game da lokacin da Little Ice Age ya fara,   amma jerin abubuwan da suka faru kafin a san mafi ƙarancin yanayi sau da yawa ana ambaton su. A cikin karni na 13, kankara ya fara ci gaba zuwa kudu a Arewacin Atlantic, kamar yadda kankara a Greenland suka yi. Shaidar da aka bayar ta nuna fadada kankara kusan a duk duniya. Dangane da kwanan wata na radiocarbon na kimanin samfurori 150 na kayan shuke-shuke da suka mutu tare da tushen da aka tattara daga ƙarƙashin kankara a Tsibirin Baffin da Iceland, Miller et al. (2012)  sun bayyana cewa lokacin sanyi da ci gaban kankara sun fara kwatsam tsakanin 1275 da 1300, sannan "mai karfi sosai" daga 1430 zuwa 1455.

Sabanin haka, sake fasalin yanayi wanda ya danganci tsawon glacial  bai nuna babban bambanci daga 1600 zuwa 1850 ba amma koma baya mai karfi daga baya.

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