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Little Ice Age The period from about 1550 to 1850 when average global temperatures were lower, and alpine glaciers increased in size and advanced down mountain valleys.
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Little Ice Age(1)
A cold period that lasted from about A.D. 1550 to about A.D. 1850 in Europe, North America, and Asia. This period was marked by rapid expansion of mountain glaciers, especially in the Alps, Norway, Ireland, and Alaska.
Dickens' era was at the end of an extremely cold period meteorologists have dubbed ''the little ice age'' which lasted from 1400 until the 1850s. In the early part of the century, the River Thames froze over 20 times.
the Little Ice Age) and retreating during climate warming on moderate time scales. Glaciers grow and collapse, both contributing to natural variability and greatly amplifying externally forced changes.
Fagan, Brian M.: The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850, 2001, Basic Books, New York, ISBN 0465022715.
 See also: Meteor, Weather, Ice age, Climate, Atmosphere
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