Tree ring-based February–April temperature reconstruction for Changbai Mountain in Northeast China and its implication for East Asian winter monsoon

Zhu, He; Fang, Xiuqi; Shao, Xuemei; Yin, Zhiyong

doi:10.5194/cp-5-661-2009

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“…However, tree-ring series were rarely used to reconstruct past climate (especially temperature) in this area because of the exceptional hydrothermal conditions. Several temperaturesensitive tree-ring chronologies were developed on Changbai Mountain (e.g., Shao and Wu, 1997;Zhu et al, 2009;Wang et al, 2012; and Xiaoxing'an Mountain Zhu et al, 2015), but almost no records were obtained for a period of over 250 years, which can reflect the low-frequency climate variations. This limits our understanding of a longer timescale of climate regime in northeast China.…”

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A 414-year tree-ring-based April–July minimum temperature reconstruction and its implications for the extreme climate events, northeast China

Lyu

Zhang

et al. 2016

Clim. Past

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Abstract.A ring-width series was used as a proxy to reconstruct the past 414-year record of April-July minimum temperature at Laobai Mountain, northeast China. The chronology was built using standard tree-ring procedures for providing comparable information in this area while preserving low-frequency signals. By analyzing the relationship between the tree-ring chronology of Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) and meteorological data, we found that the standard chronology was significantly correlated with the April-July minimum temperature (r = 0.757, p < 0.01). Therefore, the April-July minimum temperature since 1600 (more than six trees, but the expressed population signal (EPS) is greater than 0.85 since 1660) was reconstructed by this tree-ring series. The reconstruction equation accounted for 57.3 % of temperature variation, and it was proved reliable by testing with several methods (e.g., sign test, product mean test, reduction of the error, and coefficient of efficiency). Reconstructed April-July minimum temperature on Laobai Mountain showed six major cold periods (1605-1616, 1645-1677, 1684-1691, 1911-1924, 1930-1942, and 1951-1969) and seven major warm periods (1767-1785, 1787-1793, 1795-1807, 1819-1826, 1838-1848, 1856-1873, and 1991-2008) during the past 414 years. The reconstructed low-temperature periods in the 17th and early 18th century were consistent with the Little Ice Age (LIA) in the Northern Hemisphere, and the rate of warming in the 19th century was significantly slower than that in the late 20th century. In addition, the reconstructed series was fairly consistent with the historical and natural disaster records of extreme climate events (e.g., cold damage and frost disaster) in this area. This temperature record provides new evidence of past climate variability, and can be used to predict the climate trend in the future in northeast China.

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A 414-year tree-ring-based April–July minimum temperature reconstruction and its implications for the extreme climate events, northeast China

Lyu

Zhang

et al. 2016

Clim. Past

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“…It is widely known that tree ring growth in cold and wet ecotopes, situated on sufficiently high elevation in the Northern Hemisphere, strongly correlate with temperature variability in large areas of Asia, Eurasia, and North America (Zhu et al, 2009;Anchukaitis et al, 2013;Thapa et al, 2015;Wiles et al, 2014). The limiting influence of temperature on P. koraiensis growth has been mentioned in many studies Yin et al, 2009;Zhu et al, 2009). However, the temperature has various limiting effects in different conditions, and these limiting effects manifest in different ways .…”

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“…Most reconstructions cover periods of less than 250 years (e.g., Shao and Wu, 1997;Zhu et al, 2009;Wang et al, 2012;Li and Wang, 2013;Yin et al, 2009;Zhu et al, 2015), except for a few with periods of up to 400 years (Lyu et al, 2016;Wiles et al, 2014). The short period of reconstructions is the reason why such reconstructions cannot capture low-frequency climate variations.…”

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“…Our new minimum temperature record supplements the existing data for northeastern Asia and provides new ev- Figure 1. Location of the study area in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, southeastern Russia (1), and sites of compared temperature reconstructions: April-July minimum temperature on Laobai Mountain by Lyu et al (2016) (2) and February-April temperature established by Zhu et al (2009) in the Changbai Mountains (3).…”

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“…A great number of studies have focused on climatic change reconstruction for the northeastern parts of China based on P. koraiensis radial growth studies (e.g., Zhu et al, 2009;Wang et al, 2013Wang et al, , 2016Zhu et al, 2015;Lyu et al, 2016). Climatic parameters were reconstructed for the whole Northern Hemisphere (Wilson et al, 2016) and China (Ge et al, 2016), and temperature characteristics were reconstructed for northeastern Asia (Ohyama et al, 2013).…”

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Abstract. The aim of our research was to reconstruct climatic parameters (for the first time for the Sikhote-Alin mountain range) and to compare them with global climate fluctuations. As a result, we have found that one of the most important limiting factors for the study area is the minimum temperatures of the previous autumnwinter season (August-December), and this finding perfectly conforms to that in other territories. We reconstructed the previous August-December minimum temperature for 485 years, from 1529 to 2014. We found 12 cold periods (1535-1540, 1550-1555, 1643-1649, 1659-1667, 1675-1689, 1722-1735, 1791-1803, 1807-1818, 1822-1827, 1836-1852, 1868-1887, 1911-1925) and seven warm periods (1560-1585, 1600-1610, 1614-1618, 1738-1743, 1756-1759, 1776-1781, 1944-2014). These periods correlate well with reconstructed data for the Northern Hemisphere and the neighboring territories of China and Japan. Our reconstruction has 3-, 9-, 20-, and 200-year periods, which may be in line with high-frequency fluctuations in El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the short-term solar cycle, Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) fluctuations, and the 200-year solar activity cycle, respectively. We suppose that the temperature of the North Pacific, expressed by the PDO may make a major contribution to regional climate variations. We also assume that the regional climatic response to solar activity becomes apparent in the temperature changes in the northern part of Pacific Ocean and corresponds to cold periods during the solar minimum. These comparisons show that our climatic reconstruction based on tree ring chronology for this area may potentially provide a proxy record for long-term, large-scale past temperature patterns for northeastern Asia. The reconstruction reflects the global traits and local variations in the climatic processes of the southern territory of the Russian Far East for more than the past 450 years.

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Reconstructed annual mean temperatures for the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: associations with the East Asian monsoons and volcanic events

Wang

Chen

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Intl Journal of Climatology

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Owing to a lack of available long-term climatic records, data related to past climatic variability throughout the Tibetan Plateau remains limited. In this study, we found that Qilian juniper tree growth was significantly and positively correlated (p < 0.001) to yearly mean temperatures in the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. We developed an annual mean temperature reconstruction from year 1740 CE based on growth-climate relationships in the study area. Our reconstruction accounted for 53.9% of total variance from 1956 to 2012 (the calibration period). Through this reconstruction, we were successfully able to capture recent abrupt climate change events that generally agreed with other temperature-sensitive tree-ring reconstructions on both regional and hemisphere scales under a decadal timescale. Periods from 1820 to 1830, 1855 to 1890, and 1960 to 1985 CE corresponded to cold periods in the reconstruction, while the 1740s and periods from 1795 to 1815 and from 1990 to 2012 CE corresponded to relatively warm periods. We also detected increased interannual change variability in annual mean temperatures since the 1980s, which could be related to increasing variability in the East Asian winter monsoon as well as the rapid climate warming that has occurred since this time. From these reconstructed temperatures, we were successfully able to capture the occurrences of large volcanic events in China as well as five historic volcanic events outside China that had global implications on climate variability and that resulted in planetary cooling during the period from 1740 to 2012 CE. This in turn suggested that these volcanic events would have had short-lived impacts (approximately from 1 to 3 years) on temperature variation in the study area. The aim of this study was to provide a perspective in which to explore the mechanisms that simultaneously influence tree rings and climate.

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Tree ring-based February–April temperature reconstruction for Changbai Mountain in Northeast China and its implication for East Asian winter monsoon

Abstract: Abstract. Long-term climatic records are scarce in the northeast Asia for understanding the behavior of the East

Cited by 96 publications

References 27 publications

A 414-year tree-ring-based April–July minimum temperature reconstruction and its implications for the extreme climate events, northeast China

A 414-year tree-ring-based April–July minimum temperature reconstruction and its implications for the extreme climate events, northeast China

Autumn–winter minimum temperature changes in the southern Sikhote-Alin mountain range of northeastern Asia since 1529 AD

Reconstructed annual mean temperatures for the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: associations with the East Asian monsoons and volcanic events

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