Regional-scale winter-spring temperature variability and chilling damage dynamics over the past two centuries in southeastern China

Duan, Jianping; Zhang, Qi-Bin; Lv, Li-Xin; Zhang, Chao

doi:10.1007/s00382-011-1232-9

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“…This study confirmed once again that winter-spring temperatures are the critical driving factor of tree radial growth (Fig.3); similar growth response relationships have been reported for Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) in northeastern China (Zhu et al 2009), Hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa) in central Japan (Yonenobu and Eckstein 2006), pine trees (Pinus massoniana) in southeastern China (Duan et al 2011), and Shensi fir (Abies chensiensis) in central China (Chen et al 2015). The above phenomenon may be caused by the photosynthetic Bmechanism^that is controlled by the temperature regime, and a higher winter-spring temperature prolongs the period of growth during which the trees are capable of photosynthesis.…”

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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

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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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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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“…Tree rings in Southeast China have great potential in reflecting winter-time temperature variation (Shi et al 2010;Chen et al 2012;Duan et al 2012). How about the tree rings in South Central China?…”

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Recent warming evidence inferred from a tree-ring-based winter-half year minimum temperature reconstruction in northwestern Yichang, South Central China, and its relation to the large-scale circulation anomalies

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High-resolution winter temperature reconstructions in China are rare, yet vital for the comprehensive understanding of past climate change. In the present work, the first winter-half year minimum mean temperature from previous November to current April in northwestern Yichang, South Central China, was reconstructed back to 1875 based on tree-ring material. The reconstruction can explain 55 % of the variance over the calibration period during 1955-2011. The temperature maintained at comparatively low level before 1958, and an abnormal warming was seen since 1959. However, the warming trend stagnated after 2000 AD. 2001-2010 was the warmest decade not only during the instrumental period but also during the whole reconstructed period. The reconstruction indicates good spatial resemblance to other temperatures series in adjacent areas and Northern Hemisphere, yet the recent warming in this study is earlier and more prominent than that of Southeast China. This work also manifests that the winter-half year minimum temperature in study area has good agreement with summer (June-September) maximum temperature variation in Southeast China at decadal scale, except that the winter-half year warming in recent decades is more evident than summer. This reconstruction is not only useful in improving our knowledge of long-term temperature variation but also useful in predicting the tree growth dynamics in the future in the study area.

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“…Therefore a large fraction of common variance between TRW indices and instrumental temperature records arises from the coincidence of multi-decadal trends, rather than a causal control of tree growth by seasonal temperature. Moreover, only a few of the abundant TP TRW based temperature reconstructions Yang et al 2010a, b;Duan et al 2012;Cao et al 2012;Lv and Zhang 2013;He et al 2013), exhibit centennial temperature variability (Zhu et al 2008;Yadav et al 2011). Flat temperature reconstructions may arise from inappropriate sampling or detrending methods.…”

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“…Since the quantitative interpretation of the δ 18 O signal in ice cores as a temperature record remains challenging (Yao et al 2013), we focus here on tree-ring width (TRW) records. Most TRW-based temperature reconstructions produced for TP have not captured any significant warming trend since the nineteenth century Yang et al 2010a, b;Cao et al 2012;Duan et al 2012;Lv and Zhang 2013;He et al 2013). However, one recent TRW study from the Western Himalayas (Yadav et al 2011) reported large centennial temperature variability, with cooling in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and warming since the 1890s, while another study from the northern TP suggested the onset of a warming trend started in the 1820s (Zhu et al 2008).…”

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Unprecedented recent warming rate and temperature variability over the east Tibetan Plateau inferred from Alpine treeline dendrochronology

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(0.43 ± 0.08 °C/century, . Our record also displays an enhanced multi-decadal variability since the midtwentieth century. The 1990s-2000s are the warmest of our whole record, due to the superposition of the gradual warming trend and decadal variability during this interval. The strongest decadal cooling occurs during the 1950s and the largest warming trend during the 1970s. The magnitude of warming from 1973 to 2003 was larger than the total warming trend from 1820s to 2009. Extreme events are also more frequent since 1950. The pattern of multidecadal variability has similarities with the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation, suggesting common causality. CMIP5 historical simulations fail to capture both the magnitude and timing of this multi-decadal variability. The ensemble CMIP5 average produces a steady warming trend starting in the 1970s, which only accounts for about 60 % of the observed warming trend during this period. We conclude that TP summer temperature could reflect a climate response to increased greenhouse gas concentrations, however modulated by multi-decadal variations common with the Atlantic sector.Abstract Despite instrumental records showing recent large temperature rises on the Tibetan Plateau (TP), only a few tree-ring temperature reconstructions do capture this warming trend. Here, we sampled 260 trees from seven Alpine treeline locations across the southeast TP. Standardized tree-ring width chronologies of Abies squamata and Sabina squamat were produced following Regional Curve Standardization detrending. The leading principal component of these records is well correlated with the regional summer (JJA) minimum temperature (MinT) (R 2 = 0.47, P < 0. 001,). Hence we produce a regional summer MinT reconstruction spanning the last 212 years. This reconstruction reveals a long-term persistent warming trend, starting in the 1820s, at a rate of 0.45 ± 0.09 °C/ century ). This trend is also detected since the 1820s in the Asian summer MinT reconstruction produced by the PAGES 2K project, with a very close warming rate Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article

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Regional-scale winter-spring temperature variability and chilling damage dynamics over the past two centuries in southeastern China

Cited by 92 publications

References 20 publications

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

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

Recent warming evidence inferred from a tree-ring-based winter-half year minimum temperature reconstruction in northwestern Yichang, South Central China, and its relation to the large-scale circulation anomalies

Unprecedented recent warming rate and temperature variability over the east Tibetan Plateau inferred from Alpine treeline dendrochronology

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