The 443-Year Tree-Ring Chronology for the Scots Pine from Upper Silesia (Poland) as A Dating Tool and Climate Proxy

Opała, Magdalena

doi:10.1515/geochr-2015-0005

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“…Moreover, besides the lower than average precipitation and high temperature in summer, they explained narrow ring formation in 1964 with winter conditions from December 1963 to April 1964 which also shows similarities with our results. Another correspondence to our data can be found in Opala's (2015) paper where 1952 was picked as a negative pointer year (among others) and explained its formation with drought. Although some resemblances to our results can be found from the surrounding countries, considering the whole dataset we can say that NR formation depends on local factors principally (drought, winter conditions, groundwater level) in our study site.…”

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confidence: 88%

Possibility of identification of negative extreme climatic events using Pinus sylvestris tree-rings in Transdanubia, Hungary

Misi¹,

Náfrádi²

2016

Dendrobiology

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Negative climatic extremes occur more frequently in the last decades. Since the Carpathian Basin is highly concerned in their impacts it is important to investigate prior events and estimate the response of the environment to them to get useful information for the future. In our work we selected a stand which is seriously affected by unfavorable summer conditions to examine what kind of fingerprint the negative extreme events have left. We investigated narrow rings and intra-annual density fluctuation to describe years with extreme events. Their stabilized frequency was tested against climatic and groundwater data, as well as against aridity index to determine climate-growth relationships using Pearson and Spearman's correlations. Our results show positive significant correspondence between summer precipitation and treering growth together with negative connection with summer temperature. The Spearman's correlation between stabilized frequency of intra-annual density fluctuations, narrow rings and climate data ended with significant relationship in summer. According to the comparison of intra-annual density fluctuation and narrow ring data with drought periods it can be said that narrow rings are better tool for the examination of negative extreme events in summer.

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confidence: 88%

Possibility of identification of negative extreme climatic events using Pinus sylvestris tree-rings in Transdanubia, Hungary

Misi¹,

Náfrádi²

2016

Dendrobiology

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“…Moving correlation analysis indicated the relationship to be always significant (p < 0.05), with correlations ranging between 0.37 and 0.74. In other dendroclimatic studies a positive growth response in Scots pine to one or more cold season months has been established across northern Poland (Przybylak et al 2005;Cedro 2007;Koprowski et al 2012;Opała 2015), northern Germany (Friedrichs et al 2009;Bauwe et al 2013), Scotland (Grace & Norton 1990;Moir 2008), Spain (Gutierrez 1989), and the Fennoscandinavia and Baltic Sea regions (Lindholm et al 2001;Helama et al 2014). Spatial field correlations indicating significant relationships between our tree-ring chronology and gridded temperature data can be found extending widely across these areas and also for the interior of the Eurasian continent ( Fig.…”

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An 810‐year history of cold season temperature variability for northern Poland

Balanzategui

Knorr

Heußner

et al. 2017

Boreas

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Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) is a widely used tree species in European dendroclimatology studies due to its common distribution across much of the continent. Almost all studies find radial growth strongly related to summer temperature, a result reflecting site selection at high elevation/latitude environments where trees grow at their ecophysiological limits. Due to the amount of attention spent on these sites there is a geographical and seasonal bias in temperature reconstructions based upon tree‐ring proxies in Europe. To overcome the limited availability of tree‐ring data in temperate lowlands, we present a northern Poland ring‐width chronology developed from living and historic Scots pine material with a strong common growth signal going back to AD 1200. Investigations into climate‐growth relationships found year‐to‐year ring‐width variability to be more strongly correlated to cold season temperature (November to April) prior to the growing season than summer temperatures during tree‐ring formation. Based on this relationship it was possible to reconstruct cold season temperature conditions for the last 810 years. Spatial field correlations with gridded instrumental records indicated that the reconstruction provides relevant cold season temperature information across the land regions bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea, lowlands and uplands of western and central Europe, and the eastern and central interior of Russia. Despite an unsuccessful attempt to find a stationary relationship with the North Atlantic Oscillation, comparisons with several cold season temperature reconstructions confirmed the long‐term connection between our reconstructed temperature series for northern Poland and the wider area.

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“…Previous studies have analysed either the occurrence of extremes in temperature-sensitive TRW chronologies (Battipaglia et al, 2010) or extremes in moisture-sensitive TRW chronologies compiled from different tree species such as fir or pine (Opala and Mendecki, 2014;Opala, 2015). Several studies focused on negative (dry) extremes in moisture-sensitive series (Büntgen et al, , 2011a.…”

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“…Several TRW hydroclimate reconstructions exist for central and southern Poland -the territory that has a precipitation and/or moisture regime comparable to CR. Cross-checking of CR oak extremes against two Scots pine TRW chronologies sensitive to hydroclimate from Upper Silesia and southern Poland in the 1770-2010 period (Opala and Mendecki, 2014) and in the 1568-2010 period (Opala, 2015) was done.…”

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A tree-ring perspective on temporal changes in the frequency and intensity of hydroclimatic extremes in the territory of the Czech Republic since 761 AD

Dobrovolný¹,

Rybníček²,

Kolář³

et al. 2015

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Abstract. It is generally accepted that anthropogenic-induced climate change may affect the frequency and intensity of hydrological extremes, together with a variety of subsequent impacts on ecosystems and human society. Proxy records that are absolutely dated and annually resolved are indispensable to a better understanding of temporal changes in the occurrence of floods and droughts. This contribution presents a new dataset of 3194 oak (Quercus spp.) ring width samples from living trees and historical timbers, collected across the Czech Republic. A composite tree-ring width (TRW) chronology is developed that best captures the high-frequency extremes over the past 1250 years. The temporal distribution of negative and positive extremes is regular with no indication of clustering. The highest number of negative extremes was found in the 19th century, while positive extremes were most frequent in the 12th century. The lowest number of negative and positive extremes occurred in the 18th and 13th centuries respectively. Negative and positive TRW extremes were compared with the instrumental measurements back to 1805 AD, with documentary-based temperature and precipitation reconstructions from 1804 to 1500, and with documentary evidence before 1500 AD. Negative TRW extremes coincided with above-average March–May and June–August temperature means and below-average precipitation totals. Positive extremes coincided with higher summer precipitation, while temperatures were mostly normal. Mean sea level pressure (SLP) over the European/North Atlantic sector suggested drought for the negative oak TRW extremes, whereas the positive extremes corresponded to wetter conditions overall. More consistent patterns of synoptic SLP were found for negative rather than for positive extremes. Reasons for the possible offset between the oak-based hydroclimatic extremes and their counterparts from meteorological observations and documentary evidence may be manifold and emphasize the need for multi-proxy approaches and proxy-model comparisons.

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The 443-Year Tree-Ring Chronology for the Scots Pine from Upper Silesia (Poland) as A Dating Tool and Climate Proxy

Cited by 15 publications

References 33 publications

Possibility of identification of negative extreme climatic events using Pinus sylvestris tree-rings in Transdanubia, Hungary

Possibility of identification of negative extreme climatic events using Pinus sylvestris tree-rings in Transdanubia, Hungary

An 810‐year history of cold season temperature variability for northern Poland

A tree-ring perspective on temporal changes in the frequency and intensity of hydroclimatic extremes in the territory of the Czech Republic since 761 AD

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