Los inicios de la Pequeña Edad del Hielo en España. Aportaciones de la climatología histórica al clima del siglo XIV.

Abstract

Present project on historical climatology aims to provide the results obtained for Spain in documentary and bibliographic sources for the 14^th Century. The late medieval crisis shows a climatic dimension despite the precarious availability of information due to the historical context in the Iberian Peninsula and the lack of administrative institutions with capacity to generate large documentary series.

The results offer a preliminary vision of climatic variability patterns of the Little Ice Age. A first alteration of high frequency of floods and droughts between 1310 and 1330 triggered strong productive and even health crises. Between 1371 and 1380 there is other oscillation of great magnitude with very frequent extreme hydrometeorological events. Undoubtedly, 14^th century, with the presence of these oscillations, opened a period of strong hydrometeorological irregularity that lasted until the mid 19^th century.