I'm finding it hard to pin this down the date & extent of this "event." For example:
A humid event between AD 1100 and 1400 that peaked at AD 1300, was described by them as "coinciding with the known global Medieval Warm Period."
Schilman, B., Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, M., Kagan, E.J. and Almogi-Labin, A. 2002. Sea-land paleoclimate correlation in the Eastern Mediterranean region during the late Holocene. Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 51: 181-190.
vs.
The Medieval Warm Period (~ AD 875 to 1000) was categorized as the "warmest period" of the record, with temperatures about 0.25?C warmer than it is currently.
Pla, S. and Catalan, J. 2005. Chrysophyte cysts from lake sediments reveal the submillennial winter/spring climate variability in the northwestern Mediterranean region throughout the Holocene. Climate Dynamics 24: 263-278.
These dates don't even overlap!
...and from wikipedia, on the Little IceAge: "...Later (sect 33.5) discusses what the LIA actaully means. Porter (1986) uses 1250-1920...." This overlapps with the MWP "peak" of 1300 cited above!
These are ~"extreme" examples, but what are people referring to when they cite the MWP?
Thanks,
Samwik
