Tree-ring reconstruction of summer temperature for A.D. 1475–2003 in the central Hengduan Mountains, Northwestern Yunnan, China

• Published in: Climatic change Vol. 110; no. 1-2; pp. 455 - 467
• Main Authors: Li, Zong-Shan, Zhang, Qi-Bin, Ma, Keping
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.01.2012; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Atmospheric Sciences; China; Chronology; Climate; Climate change; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Climate variability; climatic factors; Climatology. Bioclimatology. Climate change; Constraining; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Earth, ocean, space; Exact sciences and technology; External geophysics; Glaciers; growth rings; Meteorology; Mountains; Paleoclimate; Paleoclimate science; Picea; Plant growth; Precipitation; Reconstruction; Summer; Tasks; Temperature; Trees; variance; Yunnan China; Far East; Asia; China; Tibetan Plateau; Tree Ring; Hengduan Mountain; Pacific Decadal Oscillation; Qilian Mountain; Dendroclimatology; Historical reconstruction; mountains; gymnosperms; Century 19th; Plantae; Regional scope; Century 17th; Summer; Century 18th; climate variability; Century 15th; Long term variation; Century 16th; Century 20th; Atmospheric temperature; Coniferales; Spermatophyta; tree rings

Development of long tree-ring records is an important task in paleoclimate studies. Here we presented a five-century long reconstruction of summer (June to August) temperature based on a tree ring-width chronology of Picea brachytyla var. complanata originating from the Hengduan Mountains of China....