Precipitation variability during the past 400 years in the Xiaolong Mountain (central China) inferred from tree rings

Fang, Keyan; Gou, Xiaohua; Chen, Fahu; Frank, David; Liu, Changzhi; Li, Jinbao; Kázmér, Miklós

doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1371-7

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“…This period coincides with a weakened Asian summer monsoon [40], which is the main source of precipitation in the study area. Moreover, the temperatures during this period are greater than or equal to those in the 20 th century.…”

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Multi-Proxy Temperature Reconstruction from the West Qinling Mountains, China, for the Past 500 Years

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A total of 290 tree-ring samples, collected from six sites in the West Qinling Mountains of China, were used to develop six new standard tree-ring chronologies. In addition, 73 proxy records were assembled in collaboration with Chinese and international scholars, from 27 publically available proxy records and 40 tree-ring chronologies that are not available in public datasets. These records were used to reconstruct annual mean temperature variability in the West Qinling Mountains over the past 500 years (AD 1500–1995), using a modified point-by-point regression (hybrid PPR) method. The results demonstrate that the hybrid PPR method successfully integrates the temperature signals from different types of proxies, and that the method preserves a high degree of low-frequency variability. The reconstruction shows greater temperature variability in the West Qinling Mountains than has been found in previous studies. Our temperature reconstruction for this region shows: 1) five distinct cold periods, at approximately AD 1520–1535, AD 1560–1575, AD 1610–1620, AD 1850–1875 and AD 1965–1985, and four warm periods, at approximately AD 1645–1660, AD 1705–1725, AD 1785–1795 and AD 1920–1945; 2) that in this region, the 20th century was not the warmest period of the past 500 years; and 3) that a dominant and persistent oscillation of ca. 64 years is significantly identified in the 1640–1790 period.

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Multi-Proxy Temperature Reconstruction from the West Qinling Mountains, China, for the Past 500 Years

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“…Li et al (2006) suggested that drought variability has a 2-to 3-year cycle in the central Tien Shan area of northwestern China. The 2-to 3-year cycle precipitation variability in southern Kazakhstan has been widely documented in previous tree-ring-based climate reconstructions (Fang et al, 2010(Fang et al, , 2012 and may be related to the tropospheric biennial oscillation (Meehl, 1987). The spectral peaks separated by 5-7 years fall within the spectral bandwidth of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (Allan et al, 1996).…”

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Tree‐ring‐based precipitation reconstruction in southern Kazakhstan, reveals drought variability since A.D. 1770

Zhang

Shang

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Intl Journal of Climatology

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In this article, we developed a tree‐ring‐width chronology of Schrenk spruce (Picea schrenkiana Fisch. et Mey) in southern Kazakhstan. Climate‐growth response result showed that the precipitation from the previous June to current May was the principal limited factor of radial growth. We also obtained a 246‐year reconstruction of June–May precipitation in southern Kazakhstan. The reconstruction explains 39.7% of the variance in precipitation records during the 1902–2013 calibration periods. In addition, the precipitation over the past 246 years in southern Kazakhstan has experienced six wetter periods and seven drier ones, and the extreme drought years were 1837, 1879, 1917 and 1945. From 1985 to 2004, precipitation has experienced longer and more rapid wetting, but the trend of precipitation has decreased in the past few years. The reconstructed series of precipitation is consistent with the historic precipitation/Palmer Drought Severity Index of the western Tianshan Mountains. Here, high precipitation variability occurred during 1770–1800 and 1900‐present, while 1800–1900 was relatively calm. Meanwhile, there was large power in the 2‐ to 7‐year short‐period and over the 34‐ to 35‐ and 40‐ to 43‐year long‐periods. We suggest the precipitation variability may be associated with large‐scale oscillations in the climate system. The reconstruction sheds new light on precipitation variability and the changes in a region where the climate history over the past several centuries is poorly understood.

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“…The coniferous species growing in extremely stressed environments such as cold and arid conditions, i.e., Sabina przewalskii, often exhibit small rings during most of their lifetimes (Shao et al, 2010;. Other tree species growing in moderately stressed environments, such as P. tabuliformis (Fang et al, 2012b) and P. massoniana , often have moderate growth values. P. taiwanensis and P. tabuliformis were not distinguished from each other before the 1930s owing to their similar ecological features (Wu, 2004), which may suggest the close genetic relationships between them.…”

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Response of Pinus taiwanensis growth to climate changes at its southern limit of Daiyun Mountain, mainland China Fujian Province

Chen

Fang

et al. 2015

Sci. China Earth Sci.

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The Pinus taiwanensis trees of a Chinese endemic species form pure forests at infertile sites in humid subtropical China, which can aid soil reservation and ecological resiliency at such sites. Herein, we used dendrochronological methods to investigate the growth patterns and their relationship with climate by analyzing 158 cores of 79 P. taiwanensis trees at 4 sites in their southernmost distribution in mainland China at Daiyun Mountain in Fujian Province. Tree growths at sites with favorable conditions generally showed an age-related growth trend, which decreased from approximately 5 mm to 0.5 mm in about a century. Trees in moderately stressed environments established high growth in their juvenile periods but were highly susceptible to environmental stresses such as a sharp growth decline in the 1990s. The temperature in February and the moisture in July are the major limiting factors for most of the tree growths, except for a few extremely stressed P. taiwanensis trees. The growth of the dwarf P. taiwanensis trees, with all ring diameters of the first 20 years less than 4 mm, is mainly limited by the dry climate in May. Under the potential future warming trend, drought stress can be particularly threatening to these dwarf P. taiwanensis trees, which are likely to be the germplasm resources for this species in this region.

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Precipitation variability during the past 400 years in the Xiaolong Mountain (central China) inferred from tree rings

Cited by 57 publications

References 46 publications

Multi-Proxy Temperature Reconstruction from the West Qinling Mountains, China, for the Past 500 Years

Multi-Proxy Temperature Reconstruction from the West Qinling Mountains, China, for the Past 500 Years

Tree‐ring‐based precipitation reconstruction in southern Kazakhstan, reveals drought variability since A.D. 1770

Response of Pinus taiwanensis growth to climate changes at its southern limit of Daiyun Mountain, mainland China Fujian Province

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