Tree-ring based winter temperature reconstruction for the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in southeast China

Shi, Jiangfeng; Cook, Edward R.; Lu, Huayu; Li, Jinbao; Wright, William E.; Li, Shengfeng

doi:10.3354/cr00851

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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: 56%

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

et al. 2014

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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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confidence: 56%

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

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“…There are no significant correlations between tree growth and monthly minimum temperature during the period of prior winter at BYS0102 and LCM01, but 1 significant correlation was recorded at SRS04 (r = 0.35 in prior December) and 3 significant correlations at SRS10 (r = 0.38, 0.32, and 0.42 in prior December, January and February, respectively). The influence of winter temperature on tree growth was also found for Pinus taiwanensis Hayata in the lower reaches of the Yangtze river in southeast China (Shi et al 2010), Pinus armandii Franch in the eastern Qinling Mountains (Shi et al 2009), Pinus tabulaeformis in the southern Qinling Mountains ), Juniperus przewalskii in the Xiqing Mountains of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau , Abies chensiensis in the Jiuzhaigou region of southwest China (Song et al 2007), Sabina przewalskii and Picea crassifolia on the northeast Tibetan Plateau (Liang et al 2006), and Picea balfouriana in western Sichuan Province of China (Shao & Fan, 1999). Increased winter temperature in areas of inconsistent snow pack may reduce winter damage to roots, resulting in less growth limitation (Pederson et al 2004).…”

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Growth response of Pinus tabulaeformis to climate along an elevation gradient in the eastern Qinling Mountains, central China

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Tree growth response to climate is not well understood in the eastern Qinling Mountains of central China, an East Asian monsoon dominated region. In this study, we developed 4 robust tree-ring width chronologies using Chinese pine Pinus tabulaeformis along an elevation gradient. The 4 chronologies were significantly correlated with each other. Through standard correlation function analysis, we found that each of the 4 chronologies correlated negatively with temperature, especially with maximum temperature in May and June, and positively with precipitation from prior December to current May. Principal component analysis and composite analysis of years when extremely narrow rings were common to all 4 chronologies confirmed this relationship. However, precipitation in the current September and October was positively correlated to tree growth at lower sites and negatively at higher ones, and temperature stress effects increased with elevation. The findings will help understand the growth response of this tree species to climate change in the southern part of its range, and provide critical information for future climate reconstructions using this tree species in humid or semi-humid regions.

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“…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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Tree-ring based winter temperature reconstruction for the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in southeast China

Cited by 65 publications

References 30 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

Growth response of Pinus tabulaeformis to climate along an elevation gradient in the eastern Qinling Mountains, central China

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

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