Annual temperature history in southwest tibet during the last 400 years recorded by tree rings

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 962-971

  Yang, Bao ^a,b,c   Kang, Xingcheng ^a   Liu, Jingjing ^a   Bräuning, Achim ^c   Qin, Chun ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annual temperature reconstruction; Climate change; Last 400 years; Tibetan plateau; Tree ring width

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; COLD CONDITIONS; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; LONG-TERM TREND; LOW-FREQUENCY SIGNALS; LOW-FREQUENCY VARIATIONS; NATURAL CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; PROXY RECORDS; REGIONAL CURVE STANDARDIZATION; RING WIDTH; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE HISTORY; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE VARIANCE; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIBETANS; TREE RINGS; TREE-RING WIDTH;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPAIR;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LINEARITY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONALITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TREE RING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WARMING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS TIBETICA;

EID: 77953160660     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1956     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Biondi F, Waikul K. 2004. DENDROCLIM2002: a C++ program for statistical calibration of climate signals in tree-ring chronologies. Computers and Geosciences 30(3): 303-311.
2. Bräuning A. 2001. Climate history of the Tibetan Plateau during the last 1000 years derived from a network of Juniper chronologies. Dendrochronologia 19(1): 127-137.
3. Bräuning A. 2006. Tree-ring evidence of "Little Ice Age" glacier advances in southern Tibet. The Holocene 16: 1-12.
4. Bräuning A, Grießinger J. 2006. Late Holocene variations in monsoon intensity in the Tibetan-Himalayan region - evidence from tree rings. Journal of the Geological Society of India 68(3): 485-494.
5. Bräuning A, Mantwill B. 2004. Summer temperature and summer monsoon history on the Tibetan plateau during the last 400 years recorded by tree rings. Geophysical Research Letters 31: L24205, DOI:10.1029/2004GL020793.
6. Briffa KR, Jones PD, Schweingruber FH, Karlen W, Shiyatov G. 1996. Tree ring variables as proxy climate indicators: problems with low-frequency signals. In: Climatic Variations and Forcing Mechaniss of the last 2000 Years, Jones PD, Bradley RS, Jouzel J (eds). Springer-Verlag: Berlin.
7. Briffa KR, Osborn TJ, Schweingruber FH, Harris IC, Jones PD, Shiyatov SG, Vaganov EA. 2001. Low-frequency temperature variations from a northern tree-ring density network. Journal of Geophysical Research 106: 2929-2941.
8. Cook ER. 1985. A time-series analysis approach to tree-ring standardization. PhD Thesis. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
9. Cook ER, Briffa KR, Shiyatov S, Mazepa V. 1990. Estimation of the mean chronology. In: Methods of Dendrochronology. Applications in the Environmental Sciences Cook ER, Kairiukstis LA(eds). Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht, Boston, London; 123-132.
10. Cook ER, Briffa KR, Meko DM, Graybill DA, Funkhouser G. 1995. The 'segment length curse' in long tree-ring chronology development for palaeoclimatic studies. The Holocene 5: 229-237.
11. Cook ER, Krusic PJ, Jones PD. 2003. Dendroclimatic signals in long tree-ring chronologies from the Himalayas of Nepal. International Journal of Climatology 23(7): 707-732, DOI: 10.1002/joc.911.
12. D'Arrigo R, Wilson R, Jacoby G. 2006. On the long-term context for late twentieth century warming. Journal of Geophysical Research 111: D03103, DOI: 10.1029/2005JD006352.
13. Esper J. 2000. Long term tree-ring variations in junipers at the upper timberline in the Karakorum (Pakistan). The Holocene 10: 253-260.
14. Esper J, Cook ER, Schweingruber FH. 2002a. Low-frequency signals in long tree-ring chronologies for reconstructing past temperature variability. Science 295(5563): 2250-2253.
15. Esper J, Cook ER, Krusic PJ, Peters K, Schweingruber FH. 2003. Tests of the RCS method for preserving low-frequency variability in long tree-ring chronologies. Tree-Ring Research 59(2): 81-98.
16. Esper J, Schweingruber FH, Winiger M. 2002b. 1,300 years of climate history for Western Central Asia inferred from tree-rings. The Holocene 12: 267-277.
17. Fan Z, Bräuning A, Cao K. 2008. Annual temperature reconstruction in the Central Hengduan Mountains, China, as deduced from tree rings. Dendrochronologia 26: 97-107.
18. Fan Y, van den Dool H. 2008. A global monthly land surface air temperature analysis for 1948-present. Journal of Geophysical Research 113: D01103, DOI:10.1029/2007JD008470.
19. Feng S, Hu Q, Qian W. 2004. Quality control of daily meteorological data in China, 1951-2000: a new dataset. International Journal of Climatology 24: 853-870.
20. Fritts HC. 1976. Tree Rings and Climate, Academic Press: London; 567.
21. Gou X, Chen F, Yang M, Jacoby G, Fang K, Tian Q, Zhang Y. 2008. Asymmetric variability between maximum and minimum temperatures in Northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from tree rings. Science in China (Series D) 51(1): 41-55.
22. Gou X, Yang M, Peng J, Zhang Y, Chen T, Hou Z. 2006. Maximum temperature reconstruction for Animaqing Mountains over past 830 years based on tree ring records. Quaternary Sciences 26(6): 991-998.
23. Hegerl GC, Crowley T, Hyde WT, Frame D. 2006. Climate sensitivity constrained by temperature reconstructions of the last seven centuries. Nature 440: 1029-1032.
24. Holmes RL. 1983. Computer-assisted quality control in tree-ring dating and measurement. Tree-ring Bulletin 43: 69-95.
25. Jones PD, Briffa KR, Barnett TP, Tett SFB. 1998. High-resolution palaeoclimatic records for the last millennium: interpretation, integration and comparison with general circulation model control-run temperatures. The Holocene 8: 455-471.
26. Liang EY, Shao XM, Qin N. 2008. Tree-ring based summer temperature reconstruction for the source region of the Yangtze River on the Tibetan Plateau. Global and Planetary Change 61(3-4): 313-320.
27. Liang EY, Shao XM, Xu Y. 2009. Tree-ring evidence of recent abnormal warming on the southeast Tibetan Plateau. Theoretical and Applied Climatology (in press). DOI: 10.1007/s00704-008-0085-6.
28. Liu Y, An Z, Ma H, Cai Q, Liu Z. 2006. Precipitation variation in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau recorded by the tree rings since 850 AD and its relevance to the Northern Hemisphere temperature. Science in China (Series D) 49(4): 408-420.
29. Liu XD, Chen D. 2000. Climatic warming in the Tibetan Plateau during recent decades. International Journal of Climatology 20: 1729-1742.
30. Mann ME, Bradley RS, Hughes MK. 1999. Northern hemisphere temperatures during the past millennium: inferences, uncertainties, and limitations. Geophysical Research Letters 26(6): 759-762.
31. Meko DM, Graybill DA. 1995. Tree-ring reconstruction of Upper Gila River discharge. Water Resource Bulletin 31: 605-616.
32. Michaelsen J. 1987. Cross-validation in statistical climate forecast models. Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology 26: 1589-1600.
33. Miehe G, Miehe S, Will M, Opgenoorth L, Duo L, Dorgeh T, Liu J. 2007. An inventory of forest relics in the pastures of Southern Tibet (Xizang A. R., China). Plant Ecology 194(2): 157-177.
34. Moberg A, Sonechkin DM, Holmgren K, Datsenko NM, Karlén W. 2005. Highly variable Northern Hemisphere temperatures reconstructed from low- and high-resolution proxy data. Nature 443: 613-617.
35. th-century warmth in the context of the past 1200 years. Science 311: 841-844.
36. Osborn TJ, Briffa KR, Jones PD. 1997. Adjusting variance for sample-size in tree-ring chronologies and other regional-mean time-series. Dendrochronologia 15: 89-99.
37. Shao XM, Huang L, Liu HB, Liang EY, Fang XQ, Wang LL. 2005. Reconstruction of precipitation variation from tree rings in recent 1000 years in Delingha, Qinghai. Science in China (Series D) 48(7): 939-949.
38. Sheppard P, Tarasov P, Graumlich L, Heussner K, Wagner M, Österle H, Thompson LG. 2004. Annual precipitation since 515BC reconstructed from living and fossil juniper growth of Northeast Qinghai Province, China. Climate Dynamics 23: 869-881.
39. Stokes MA, Smiley TL. 1996. An Introduction to Tree-Ring Dating, The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, London; 1-73.
40. Thompson LG, Mosley-Thompson E, Brecher H, Davis ME, Leon B, Les D, Mashiotta TA, Lin PN, Mountain K. 2006a. Evidence of abrupt tropical climate change: past and present. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103(28): 10536-10543.
41. Thompson LG, Yao T, Davis ME, Mosley-Thompson E, Lin PN, Mashiotta TA, Mikhalenko VN, Zagordonov VS. 2006b. Holocene climate variability archived in the Puruogangri ice cape from the central Tibetan Plateau. Annals of Glaciology 43: 61-69.
42. Wang XC, Zhang QB, Ma K, Xiao S. 2008. A tree-ring record of 500-year dry-wet changes in northern Tibet, China. The Holocene 18: 579-588.
43. Webster PJ, Magana VO, Palmer TN, Shukla J, Tomas RA, Yanai M, Yasunari T. 1998. Monsoons: processes, predictability, and the prospects for prediction. Journal of Geophysical Research 103(C7): 14451-14510.
44. Wigley T, Briffa KR, Jones PD. 1984. On the average value of correlated time series, with applications in dendroclimatology and hydrometeorology. Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology 23: 201-213.
45. Wilson R, D'Arrigo R, Buckley B, Büntgen U, Esper J, Frank D, Luckman B, Payette S, Vose R, Youngblut D. 2007. A matter of divergence: tracking recent warming at hemispheric scales using tree ring data. Journal of Geophysical Research 112: D17103, DOI:10.1029/2006JD008318.
46. Wilson R, Luckman BH, Esper J. 2005. A 500-Year dendroclimatic reconstruction of spring/summer precipitation from the lower Bavarian forest region, Germany. International Journal of Climatology 25: 611-630.
47. Wu XD, Lin ZY. 1981. Climatic change during the last 2000 years in Tibet, Proceedings of Symposium on Climatic Change, Science Press, Beijing; 18-25 (in Chinese).
48. Yadav RR, Park WK, Singh J, Dubey B. 2004. Do the western Himalayas defy global warming? Geophysical Research Letters 31: L17201, DOI:10.1029/2004GL020201.
49. Yadav RR, Singh J. 2002. Tree-ring-based spring temperature patterns over the past four centuries in Western Himalaya. Quaternary Research 57(3): 299-305.
50. Yang B, Bräuning A, Johnson KR, Shi YF. 2002. General characteristics of temperature variation in China during the last two millennia. Geophysical Research Letters 29(9): 1324, DOI: 10.1029/2001GL014485.
51. Yang B, Tang L, Bräuning A, Davis ME, Shao Y, Liu J. 2008. Summer temperature reconstruction on the central Tibetan Plateau during 1860-2002 derived from annually resolved ice core pollen. Journal of Geophysical Research 113: D24102, DOI:10.1029/2008JD010142.
52. Zhang QB, Cheng GD, Yao TD, Kang XC, Huang JG. 2003. A 2,326-year tree-ring record of climate variability on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Geophysical Research Letters 30(14): 1739, DOI:10.1029/2003GL017425.