Early summer temperature reconstruction in the eastern Tibetan plateau since ad 1440 using tree-ring width of Sabina tibetica

Zhu, Haifeng; Shao, Xuemei; Yin, Zhang‐qi; Huang, Lei

doi:10.1007/s00704-011-0419-7

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“…Such discrepancies seem to be a common problem in tree-ring-based temperature reconstructions in China, in which the agreement between observed data and estimated data became worse before the 1990s in many regions across China (Deng et al, 2013;Fan et al, , 2010Gou et al, 2007b;Lv and Zhang, 2013;Shi et al, 2010;Song et al, 2014;Yang et al, 2009bYang et al, , 2010Zhang et al, 2013;Zhu et al, 2011a). Similar issues were also found for the tree-ring-based precipitation reconstructions Fan et al, 2008b;Liu et al, 2011;Shao et al, 2005;Yang et al, 2011Yang et al, , 2014Y.…”

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confidence: 65%

“…the Hengduan Mountains (Fan et al, 2008a(Fan et al, , 2010Li et al, 2011a), the Nyainqentanglha Mountains (Zhu et al, 2011a), the Tanggula Mountains (Zhu et al, 2011b;, the Sygera Mountains (Liang et al, 2009), and the Himalaya Mountains (Yang et al, 2009aCook et al, 2003;Hughes, 2001;Yadav et al, 2004). However, few millennial-scale temperature series are available.…”

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Millennial minimum temperature variations in the Qilian Mountains, China: evidence from tree rings

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Abstract.A 1343-year tree-ring chronology was developed from Qilian junipers in the central Qilian Mountains of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau (TP), China. The climatic implications of this chronology were investigated using simple correlation, partial correlation and response function analyses. The chronology was significantly positively correlated with temperature variables prior to and during the growing season, especially with monthly minimum temperature. Minimum temperature anomalies from January to August since AD 670 were then reconstructed based on the treering chronology. The reconstruction explained 58 % of the variance in the instrumental temperature records during the calibration period and captured the variation patterns in minimum temperature at the annual to centennial timescales over the past millennium. The most recent 50 years were the warmest period, while 1690-1880 was the coldest period since AD 670. Comparisons with other temperature series from neighbouring regions and for the Northern Hemisphere as a whole supported the validity of our reconstruction and suggested that it provided a good regional representation of temperature change in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. The results of wavelet analysis showed the occurrence of significant quasi-periodic patterns at a number of recurring periods (2-4, 40-50, and 90-170 years), which were consistent with those associated with El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and solar activity. The comparison between the reconstructed temperature and the index of tropical volcanic radiative forcing indicated that some cold events recorded by tree rings may be due to the impact of tropical volcanic eruptions.

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Millennial minimum temperature variations in the Qilian Mountains, China: evidence from tree rings

et al. 2014

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“…Although there is an increasing number of dendroclimate reconstructions of past climates on regional to global scales (Cook et al 2013;Ljungqvist 2010;Moberg et al 2005), more effort should be made due to the climate change has a strong regional expression. In the past two decades, great progress has been made in tree-ring temperature reconstruction studies in China, especially on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (Zhu et al 2011;Liu et al 2009;Deng et al 2014;Yang et al 2014;Shao et al 2010). In contrast, only a few tree-ring climate reconstruction studies have been conducted in subtropical China (Zheng et al 2012;Chen et al 2012;Duan et al 2011;Shi et al 2010) due to the scarcity of old-growth forests and the complexity of the relationship between tree growth and climate in this region, just so limits the understanding of past climate changes in subtropical China before the instrumental record.…”

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February–May temperature reconstruction based on tree-ring widths of Abies fargesii from the Shennongjia area in central China

Zheng

Shao

et al. 2016

Int J Biometeorol

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February-May temperature strongly affects ecological processes and socio-economics in central China, yet its long-term variability has not been thoroughly assessed due to the shortness of instrumental records. In order to improve the understanding of the regularities of temperature variability in central China, in this study, we present a new tree-ring chronology from the Shengnongjia Mountains in central China which provides a valuable 245-year record of temperature variability. The reconstructed temperature correlated strongly with February-May mean temperature records of the Fangxian meteorological station from AD 1958 to AD 2011, and the derived reconstruction explained 44.5 % of the instrumental temperature variation during this period. The study shows that this region experienced three warm periods and two cool periods, i.e., the major warm periods occurred in AD 1783-1806, AD 1879-1909, and AD 1975 to the present, whereas the cool intervals occurred in AD 1807 -1878 and AD 1910 -1974. This reconstruction could aid in the evaluation of regional climate variability in subtropical China.

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“…Tibetan Plateau is a sensitive region to climate change, which is also the key area for climatic reconstructions based on tree ring in Asia (Zhang et al 2003;Shao et al 2005;Liu et al 2006;Liang et al 2009Liang et al , 2010Shi et al 2010;Zhu et al 2011;Gou et al 2013;Yang et al 2013). A pronounced warming trend has been detected since the 1980s in this area (Cai et al 2003;Wei et al 2003;Liu et al 2005), and thus, it is very necessary to detect the tree growth responses to recent climate warming at altitudinal treeline of the Tibetan Plateau.…”

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Divergent tree growth response to recent climate warming ofAbies faxonianaat alpine treelines in east edge of Tibetan Plateau

Zhang

Guo²,

Wang

et al. 2017

Ecological Research

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An anomalous reduction in tree growth indices has been detected in tree ring records from many circumpolar northern latitude sites in recent years, which was known as the divergence phenomenon. In order to understand whether the divergence phenomenon appeared at altitudinal treelines in east edge of Tibetan Plateau, we analyzed the correlation coefficients between tree growth and climate variables before and after recent climate warming, respectively. The results showed that divergence phenomenon took place and varied with sites. Compared with those in 1955–1982, the correlation coefficient of growth to mean temperature in June declined during 1983–2012. In Songpan site, more than half of the sampled trees showed an increasing positive correlation with temperature from July to September, while others turned to be a negative correlation. The positive responses to the mean temperature in previous‐year November and December declined in Markang site. Only in Miyaluo site, the positive correlation between tree ring index and temperature from July to September increased. Both the anomalous reduction or disappearance of the responses to the mean temperature and the divergent growth responses suggested that the divergence phenomenon was universal at altitudinal treelines in east edge of Tibetan Plateau, which had potentially significant influences on the estimation of forest productivity and climatic reconstructions based on tree ring.

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Early summer temperature reconstruction in the eastern Tibetan plateau since ad 1440 using tree-ring width of Sabina tibetica

Cited by 41 publications

References 35 publications

Millennial minimum temperature variations in the Qilian Mountains, China: evidence from tree rings

Millennial minimum temperature variations in the Qilian Mountains, China: evidence from tree rings

February–May temperature reconstruction based on tree-ring widths of Abies fargesii from the Shennongjia area in central China

Divergent tree growth response to recent climate warming ofAbies faxonianaat alpine treelines in east edge of Tibetan Plateau

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