The second phase (~100 CE to ~215 CE) is characterized by a decreasing trend of temperature and river discharge; the warmer temperature levels associated with the Roman Climate Optimum start to change as early as ~100 CE but more notably after ~130 CE when temperatures drop below the range of variation observed during the first phase.
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Climate change, society, and pandemic disease in Roman Italy between 200 BCE and 600 CE.
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