Tree-ring and summer-temperature response to volcanic aerosol forcing at the                 northern tree-line, Kola Peninsula, Russia

Gervais, Bruce R.; MacDonald, Glen M.

doi:10.1191/095968301678302940

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“…Volcanic eruptions have a strong depression in tree growth (Jones et al 1995;Briffa et al 1998;D'Arrigo and Jacoby 1999;Gervais and MacDonald 2001;Cook et al 2003;Luckman and Wilson 2005;Büntgen et al 2006;Liang et al 2008;Wang et al 2009;Chen et al 2011a, b). A comparison of our reconstruction with volcanic eruptions reveals there's no systematic relationship, likely related to the intensity, affect scope, and duration of impact of volcanic eruptions.…”

Section: Low Temperature and Volcanic Eruptionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Tree ring-based winter temperature reconstruction for Changting, Fujian, subtropical region of Southeast China, since 1850: linkages to the Pacific Ocean

Chen

Yuan

Wang

et al. 2011

Theor Appl Climatol

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Until recently, there have been very few tree-ring studies in southeast China due largely to the scarcity of old trees and the complexity of relationships between tree growth and climate in subtropical regions of China. Recent studies on the conifers in southeast China revealed that tree ring-based climate reconstructions are feasible. Here, we describe a reconstruction (AD 1850-2009) of NovemberFebruary maximum temperatures for Changting, Fujian, southeast China based on tree ring width data of Pinus massiniana which considerably extends the available climatic information. Calibration and verification statistics for the period 1956-2009 show a high level of skill and account for a significant portion of the observed variance (32.9%) irrespective of which period is used to develop or verify the regression model. Split sample validation supports our use of a reconstruction model based on the full period of reliable observational data . Warm periods occurred during were relatively cold. The climate correlation analyses with gridded temperature dataset and SST revealed that our season temperature reconstruction contains the strong largescale climate signals. Our results suggest that some warm winters of Changting are coincident with El Niño events over the past 150 years. In addition, several severely cold winters coincide with major volcanic eruptions.

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Section: Low Temperature and Volcanic Eruptionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Tree ring-based winter temperature reconstruction for Changting, Fujian, subtropical region of Southeast China, since 1850: linkages to the Pacific Ocean

Chen

Yuan

Wang

et al. 2011

Theor Appl Climatol

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“…Several studies (LaMarch and Hirschboeck, 1984;Briffa et al, 1998;D'Arrigo and Jacoby, 1999;Gervais and MacDonald, 2001;Luckman and Wilson, 2005) support that a cooling response to volcanic eruptions. Comparison of our reconstruction with volcanic eruptions reveals there is no systematic relationship between reconstruction sequence and volcanic eruption, likely related to the regional character of both the Zajsan Lake temperature and forcing data (Simkin and Siebert, 1994).…”

Section: Natural Forcesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Tree ring density‐based summer temperature reconstruction for Zajsan Lake area, East Kazakhstan

Chen

Yuan

Wang

et al. 2011

Intl Journal of Climatology

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ABSTRACT:Wood from Siberian larch (Larix sibirica Ledeb.) was collected in Hoboksar County, Xinjiang. Mean latewood densities (LWD) were measured by X-ray densitometry; individual series were first cross-dated and then combined to form a standard chronology. We developed a warm-season (June-August) temperature reconstruction of Zajsan Lake area in East Kazakhstan that spans 1600-2002 based on the standard chronology (LWD). The climate/tree-growth model accounts for 39.1% of the temperature variance from 1901 to 2002 and shows cold phase during the late 1600s early 1700s followed by a warmer period, with cooling again in the late 1700s early 1800s. Several severely cold warm seasons coincide with major volcanic eruptions. Some of the temperature variations also correspond to variations in solar activity. The similarities in trends of the Zajsan chronology (LWD) and the Qinghe chronology (LWD) in Altai Mountain show that there are common large-scale climatic forcings in Central Asian. The low-frequency change of temperature reconstruction is correlated positively with Northern Hemisphere temperatures.

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“…At the millennial timescale, the amplitude and duration of the climate response to solar forcing was probably small (Cubasch et al, 1997;Viau, 2003), at most a few W m À2 . Similarly, volcanic forcing operated on shorter temporal scales than insolation forcing, and was more regional in scope (e.g., Zielinski et al, 1994;White et al, 1997;Briffa et al, 1998;Gervais and MacDonald, 2001). …”

Section: à2mentioning

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Holocene thermal maximum in the western Arctic (0–180°W)

Kaufman

Ager

Anderson

et al. 2004

Quaternary Science Reviews

791

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The spatio-temporal pattern of peak Holocene warmth (Holocene thermal maximum, HTM) is traced over 140 sites across the Western Hemisphere of the Arctic (0-180 W; north of B60 N). Paleoclimate inferences based on a wide variety of proxy indicators provide clear evidence for warmer-than-present conditions at 120 of these sites. At the 16 terrestrial sites where quantitative estimates have been obtained, local HTM temperatures (primarily summer estimates) were on average 1.670.8 C higher than present (approximate average of the 20th century), but the warming was time-transgressive across the western Arctic. As the precession-driven summer insolation anomaly peaked 12-10 ka (thousands of calendar years ago), warming was concentrated in northwest North America, while cool conditions lingered in the northeast. Alaska and northwest Canada experienced the HTM between ca 11 and 9 ka, about 4000 yr prior to the HTM in northeast Canada. The delayed warming in Quebec and Labrador was linked to the residual Laurentide Ice Sheet, which chilled the region through its impact on surface energy balance and ocean circulation. The lingering ice also attests to the inherent asymmetry of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that predisposes the region to glaciation and modulates the pattern of climatic change. The spatial asymmetry of warming during the HTM resembles the pattern of warming observed in the Arctic over the last several decades. Although the two warmings are described at different temporal scales, and the HTM was additionally affected by the residual Laurentide ice, the similarities suggest there might be a preferred mode of variability in the atmospheric circulation that generates a recurrent pattern of warming under positive radiative forcing. Unlike the HTM, however, future warming will not be counterbalanced by the cooling effect of a residual North American ice sheet. r ARTICLE IN PRESS

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Tree-ring and summer-temperature response to volcanic aerosol forcing at the northern tree-line, Kola Peninsula, Russia

Cited by 37 publications

References 28 publications

Tree ring-based winter temperature reconstruction for Changting, Fujian, subtropical region of Southeast China, since 1850: linkages to the Pacific Ocean

Tree ring-based winter temperature reconstruction for Changting, Fujian, subtropical region of Southeast China, since 1850: linkages to the Pacific Ocean

Tree ring density‐based summer temperature reconstruction for Zajsan Lake area, East Kazakhstan

Holocene thermal maximum in the western Arctic (0–180°W)

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