Tree-ring based precipitation reconstruction for the forest–steppe ecotone in northern Inner Mongolia, China and its linkages to the Pacific Ocean variability

Reconstruction of the March–August PDSI since 1703 AD based on tree rings of Chinese pine (<i>Pinus tabulaeformis</i> Carr.) in the Lingkong Mountain, southeast Chinese loess Plateau

“…This wet phenomenon was also captured by tree-ring records from different areas of Inner Mongolia and Korea (Liang et al, 2007;Chen et al, 2012) as well as by studies from other regions of northern China (Fig. 7).…”

“…Among them, the 1876-1878 and 1927-1930 drought events ranked as two of the most severe natural disasters in Chinese history and have drawn significant attention from scientists due to their devastating consequences on society (Hao et al, 2010;Zhou et al, 2010). These two recent extremely dry events, the 1920s drought in particular, have been captured by many other tree-ring reconstructions in the CLP and other regions of China (Liu et al, 2003a(Liu et al, , b, 2005Liang et al, 2007;Chen et al, 2011aChen et al, , 2012Deng et al, 2013;Kang et al, 2013) as well as Mongolia (Pederson et al, 2001). The 1920s drought was also revealed by a weakened signal of the EASM indicated by a dry-wet mode index (Qian et al, 2012).…”

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

“…In addition, collecting tree-ring data is easier than conducting complex monitoring and forestry inventory investigations, allowing for large-scale studies to be implemented. Numerous investigations on the climate-growth relationships using tree rings have been conducted in the arid and cold parts of China (Yuan et al, 2003;Zhang et al, 2003;Li et al, 2007;Peng et al, 2008;Liu et al, 2009Liu et al, , 2013Shao et al, 2010;Chen et al, 2012b;Liang et al, 2014;. Although some tree-ring studies have been conducted for humid and hot subtropical China (Chen et al, 2011(Chen et al, , 2015a(Chen et al, , 2015bZheng et al, 2012;Duan et al, 2013;Shi et al, 2015), such research is still relatively incomplete for this area.…”

A tree-ring-based reconstruction of the Yimin River annual runoff in the Hulun Buir region, Inner Mongolia, for the past 135 years

“…Indeed, extremely dry/wet years (events) tended to occur over a large area within the Yimin River basin. For instance, the extremely dry years of 1907 (<2 SD), 1987 (<2 SD) and 1892 (<1 SD) were detected in the tree-ring-based annual rainfall reconstruction for Honghuaerji for 1806-2007 [16]. In particular, the extremely low runoff in 1987 (<2 SD) was recorded by many hydrological stations in the Hulun Biur region, including the Yiminmuchang, Bahou, Cuogang and Yakeshi stations [18].…”

“…A 292-year-long mean temperature reconstruction has also been developed for that region by Zhang et al [14]. In the Hulun Buir region, the annual precipitation [15,16] and seasonal temperature [17] were reconstructed using robust tree-ring width chronologies of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica.…”