Reconstructed summer temperatures over the last 400 years based on larch ring widths: Sakhalin Island, Russian Far East

Wiles, Gregory C.; Solomina, Olga; D’Arrigo, Rosanne; Anchukaitis, Kevin J.; Gensiarovsky, Yury V.; Wiesenberg, N.

doi:10.1007/s00382-014-2209-2

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“…The region has experienced almost 2 • C warming of annual temperatures over the last 100 years. Several tree-ring chronologies have been generated on Sakhalin Island, and the Asian mainland during a 2013-2014 field campaign [7,8]. These new data build on previous tree-ring based temperature reconstructions for the Peninsula [9][10][11].…”

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Climate Response of Larch and Birch Forests across an Elevational Transect and Hemisphere-Wide Comparisons, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East

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Wiles

Frederick

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Kamchatka's forests span across the peninsula's diverse topography and provide a wide range of physiographic and elevational settings that can be used to investigate how forests are responding to climate change and to anticipate future response. Birch (Betula ermanii Cham.) and larch (Larix gmelinii (Rupr.) Kuzen) were sampled at eight new sites and together with previous collections were compared with monthly temperature and precipitation records to identify their climate response. Comparisons show that tree-ring widths in both species are primarily influenced by May through August temperatures of the current growth year, and that there is a general increase in temperature sensitivity with altitude. The ring-width data for each species were also combined into regional chronologies. The resulting composite larch chronology shows a strong resemblance to a Northern Hemisphere (NH) tree-ring based temperature reconstruction with the larch series tracking NH temperatures closely through the past 300 years. The composite birch ring-width series more closely reflects the Pacific regional coastal late summer temperatures. These new data improve our understanding of the response of forests to climate and show the low frequency warming noted in other, more continental records from high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Also evident in the ring-width record is that the larch and birch forests continue to track the strong warming of interior Kamchatka.

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Climate Response of Larch and Birch Forests across an Elevational Transect and Hemisphere-Wide Comparisons, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East

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Frederick

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“…For example, Wiles et al undertook a study of summer temperatures on Sakhalin Island (Wiles et al, 2014). Unfortunately, it is impossible to compare our findings with theirs because Sakhalin Island is climatically far more similar to Japanese islands than to the Sikhote-Alin mountains, and temperature variations in their study area are mainly caused by oceanic currents.…”

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“…Most reconstructions cover periods of less than 250 years (e.g., Shao and Wu, 1997;Zhu et al, 2009;Wang et al, 2012;Li and Wang, 2013;Yin et al, 2009;Zhu et al, 2015), except for a few with periods of up to 400 years (Lyu et al, 2016;Wiles et al, 2014). The short period of reconstructions is the reason why such reconstructions cannot capture low-frequency climate variations.…”

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“…4). It is widely known that tree ring growth in cold and wet ecotopes, situated on sufficiently high elevation in the Northern Hemisphere, strongly correlate with temperature variability in large areas of Asia, Eurasia, and North America (Zhu et al, 2009;Anchukaitis et al, 2013;Thapa et al, 2015;Wiles et al, 2014). The limiting influence of temperature on P. koraiensis growth has been mentioned in many studies Yin et al, 2009;Zhu et al, 2009).…”

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Autumn–winter minimum temperature changes in the southern Sikhote-Alin mountain range of northeastern Asia since 1529 AD

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Abstract. The aim of our research was to reconstruct climatic parameters (for the first time for the Sikhote-Alin mountain range) and to compare them with global climate fluctuations. As a result, we have found that one of the most important limiting factors for the study area is the minimum temperatures of the previous autumnwinter season (August-December), and this finding perfectly conforms to that in other territories. We reconstructed the previous August-December minimum temperature for 485 years, from 1529 to 2014. We found 12 cold periods (1535-1540, 1550-1555, 1643-1649, 1659-1667, 1675-1689, 1722-1735, 1791-1803, 1807-1818, 1822-1827, 1836-1852, 1868-1887, 1911-1925) and seven warm periods (1560-1585, 1600-1610, 1614-1618, 1738-1743, 1756-1759, 1776-1781, 1944-2014). These periods correlate well with reconstructed data for the Northern Hemisphere and the neighboring territories of China and Japan. Our reconstruction has 3-, 9-, 20-, and 200-year periods, which may be in line with high-frequency fluctuations in El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the short-term solar cycle, Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) fluctuations, and the 200-year solar activity cycle, respectively. We suppose that the temperature of the North Pacific, expressed by the PDO may make a major contribution to regional climate variations. We also assume that the regional climatic response to solar activity becomes apparent in the temperature changes in the northern part of Pacific Ocean and corresponds to cold periods during the solar minimum. These comparisons show that our climatic reconstruction based on tree ring chronology for this area may potentially provide a proxy record for long-term, large-scale past temperature patterns for northeastern Asia. The reconstruction reflects the global traits and local variations in the climatic processes of the southern territory of the Russian Far East for more than the past 450 years.

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“…There are only few available studies, for example, e.g. from the Sakhalin Island (Wiles et al, 2014), the Kuril Islands (Jacoby et al, 2004), and the Primorsky Region (Ukhvatkina et al, 2018) and they purely focused on temperature reconstruction.…”

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Tree-ring based spring precipitation reconstruction in the Sikhote-Alin Mountain Range

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Omelko²,

Kislov³

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Abstract. Here, we present precipitation reconstructions based on tree rings from Pinus koraiensis (Korean pine) from three sites placed along latitudinal (330 km) gradient in Sikhote-Alin mountains, Russian Far East. The tree-ring width chronologies were built using standard tree-ring procedures. We reconstructed the April–June precipitation for the southern Sikhote-Alin (SSA), March–June precipitation for the central Sikhote-Alin (CSA) and March–July precipitation for the northwestern Sikhote-Alin (NSA) over the 1609 to 2013, 1804 to 2009 and 1858 to 2013, respectively. We found that an important limiting factor for Korean pine growth was precipitation within the period when the air current coming from the continent during the cold period is replaced with the impact of the wet ocean air current. We identified common wet years for SSA, CSA and NSA occurred in 1805, 1853, 1877, 1903, 1906, 1927, 1983, 2009 and common dry years occurred in 1821, 1869, 1919, 1949 and 2003. Our reconstructions have 3, 15 and 60 year periods and corresponds to influence of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation on the region's climate and relevant processes, respectively. Despite the impact of various global processes, the main contribution to precipitation formation in study area is still made by the Pacific Ocean, which determines their amount and periodicity.

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Reconstructed summer temperatures over the last 400 years based on larch ring widths: Sakhalin Island, Russian Far East

Cited by 11 publications

References 22 publications

Climate Response of Larch and Birch Forests across an Elevational Transect and Hemisphere-Wide Comparisons, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East

Climate Response of Larch and Birch Forests across an Elevational Transect and Hemisphere-Wide Comparisons, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East

Autumn–winter minimum temperature changes in the southern Sikhote-Alin mountain range of northeastern Asia since 1529 AD

Tree-ring based spring precipitation reconstruction in the Sikhote-Alin Mountain Range

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