State-of-the-arts in the study of climate changes over China for the past 2000 years

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1248-1258

  Ge, Quansheng ^a   Zheng, Jingyun ^a   Hao, Zhixin ^a   Zhang, Xuezhen ^a   Fang, Xiuqi ^a,b   Wang, Huan ^a,c   Yan, Junhui ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d XINYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Climate change; Perspective; State of the arts; The past 2000 years

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

CHINA;

EID: 84919795643     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11821/dlxb201409001     Document Type: Article

References (82)

1. Chu Ko-Chen. A preliminary study on the climatic fluctuations during the last 5000 years in China. Scientia Sinica, 1973, 16(2): 226-256.
2. Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China Meteorological Administration. Yearly Charts of Dryness/Wetness in China for the Last 500-year Period. Beijing: SinoMaps Press, 1981: 1-274.
3. Zhang Piyuan. Climate Change in China during Historical Times. Jinan: Shandong Science and Technology Press, 1996: 197-436.
4. Zhang Jiacheng. The Reconstruction of Climate in China for Historical Times. Beijing: Science Press, 1988, 174pp.
5. Bradley R, Briffa K, Cole J, et al. The climate of the last millennium. Paleoclimate, global change and the future. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2003: 105-141.
6. Bradley R, Hughes M, Diaz H. Climate in medieval time. Science, 2003, 302(5644): 404-405.
7. Jones P, Mann M. Climate over past millennia. Reviews of Geophysics, 2004, 42, RG2002, doi:10.1029/2003RG000143
8. Jones P, Briffa K, Osborn T, et al. High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects. The Holocene, 2009, 19(1): 3-49.
9. Christiansen B, Ljungqvist F. Reconstruction of the extratropical NH mean temperature over the last millennium with a method that preserves low-frequency variability. Journal of Climate, 2011, 24: 6013-6034
10. Mann M, Zhang Z, Rutherford S, et al. Global signatures and dynamical origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval climate anomaly. Science, 2009, 326: 1256-1260.
11. Mann M, Zhang Z, Hughes M, et al. Proxy-based reconstructions of hemispheric and global surface temperature variations over the past two millennia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008, 105: 13252-13257.
12. Hegerl G, Crowley T, Allen M, et al. Detection of human influence on a new, validated 1500-year temperature reconstruction. Journal of Climate, 2007, 20: 650-666
13. Osborn T, Briffa K. The spatial extent of 20th-century warmth in the context of the past 1200 years. Science, 2006, 311: 841-844.
14. Moberg A, Sonechkin D, Holmgren K, et al. Highly variable Northern Hemisphere temperatures reconstructed from low-and high-resolution proxy data. Nature, 2005, 433: 613-617.
15. IPCC. Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge, UK and New York, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2001: 99-181.
16. IPCC. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge, UK and New York, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2007: 533-497.
17. IPCC. Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge, UK and New York, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2013: 159-254, 383-464.
18. National Research Council. Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2000 Years. Washington DC: The National Academies Press, 2006: 1-141.
19. EC-CNARCC. China's National Assessment Report on Climate Change. Beijing: Science Press, 2007: 82-86.
20. EC-SCNARCC, The Second National Assessment Report on Climate Change. Beijing: Science Press, 2011: 117-136.
21. Zheng Jingyun, Hao Zhixin, Di Xiaochun. A study on the establishment and application environmental change database during historical times. Geographical Research, 2002, 21(2): 146-154.
22. Zhang De'er. A Compendium of Chinese Meteorological Records of the Last 3000 Years. Nanjing: Jiangsu Education Press, 2004: 1-3666pp.
23. China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research. Archival Materials on Floods and Water-loggings along the Haihe and Luanhe Rivers during the Qing Dynasty. Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company, 1981: 676.
24. China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research. Archival Materials on Floods and Water-loggings along the Huaihe River during the Qing Dynasty. Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company, 1988: 1075pp.
25. China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research. Archival Materials on Floods and Water-loggings along the Zhujiang and Hanjiang Rivers during the Qing Dynasty. Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company, 1988: 194pp.
26. China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research. Archival Materials on Floods and Water-loggings along the Changjiang and International Rivers in Southwest China during the Qing Dynasty. Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company, 1988: 1224pp.
27. China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research. Archival Materials on Floods and Water-loggings along the Yellow River Valley during the Qing Dynasty. Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company. 1993, 950pp.
28. China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research. Archival materials on floods and water-loggings along the Liaohe, Songhuajiang and Heilongjiang rivers during the Qing Dynasty. Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company, 1996: 507pp.
29. Wen Kegang. China Meteorological Disaster Encyclopedia: Synthesis Fascicule. Beijing: China Meteorological Press, 2008: 948pp.
30. Hao Zhixin, Zheng Jingyun, Ge Quansheng, et al. Winter temperature variations over the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River since 1736 AD. Climate of the Past, 2012, 8(3): 1023-1030
31. Yan J H, Ge Q S, Liu H L, et al. Reconstruction of sub-decadal winter half-year temperature during 1651-2010 for the North China Plain using records of frost date. Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, 2014, (4): 211-218.
32. Ge Quansheng. The Climate Change in China during the Past Dynasties. Beijing: Science Press, 2011: 61-665.
33. Zhu H F, Zheng Y, Shao X M, et al. Millennial temperature reconstruction based on tree-ring widths of Qilian juniper from Wulan, Qinghai Province, China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2008, 53(24): 3914-3920.
34. Zhang Y, Shao X M, Yin Z Y, et al. Millennial minimum temperature variations in the Qilian Mountains, China: evidence from tree rings. Climate of the Past Discussions, 2014, 10(1): 341-380.
35. Yao T D, Masson-Delmotte V, Gao J, et al. A review of climatic controls on δ18O in precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau: Observations and simulations. Reviews of Geophysics, 2013, 51(4): 525-548.
36. Liu Z H, Henderson A C G. Alkenone-based reconstruction of late-Holocene surface temperature and salinity changes in Lake Qinghai, China. Geophysical Research Letters, 2006, 33(9): L09707, doi:10.1029/2006GL026151.
37. Chu G Q, Sun Q, Wang X H, et al. Seasonal temperature variability during the past 1600 years recorded in historical documents and varved lake sediment profiles from northeastern China. The Holocene, 2012, 22(7): 785-792.
38. Wang S W, Wen X Y, Luo Y, et al. Reconstruction of temperature series of China for the last 1000 years. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2007, 52(23): 3272-3280.
39. Shi F, Yang B, Von Gunten L. Preliminary multiproxy surface air temperature field reconstruction for China over the past millennium. Science China Earth Sciences, 2012, 55(12): 2058-2067.
40. Ge Q S, Hao Z X, Zheng J Y, et al. Temperature changes over the past 2000 yr in China and comparison with the Northern Hemisphere. Climate of the Past, 2013, 9(3): 1153-1160.
41. PAGES 2K Consortium. Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia. Nature Geoscience, 2013, 6: 339-346.
42. Ge Q S, Zhang X Z, Hao Z X, et al. Rates of temperature change in China during the past 2000 years. Science China Earth Sciences, 2011, 54(11): 1627-1634.
43. Ge Quansheng, Liu Jian, Fang Xiuqi, et al. General characteristics of temperature change and centennial warm periods during the past 2000 years. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2013, 68(5): 579-592.
44. Zheng J Y, Wang W C, Ge Q S, et al. Precipitation variability and extreme events in eastern China during the past 1500 years. Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 2006, 17(3): 579-592.
45. Ge Q S, Zheng J Y, Hao Z X, et al. Reconstruction of historical climate in China: High-resolution precipitation data from Qing Dynasty archives. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2005, 86(5): 671-679.
46. Hao Z X, Zheng J Y, Ge Q S. Relationship between precipitation and the infiltration depth over the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and Yangtze-Huaihe River Valley. Progress in Natural Science, 2008, 18(9): 1123-1128.
47. Ge Q S, Guo X F, Zheng J Y, et al. Meiyu in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River since 1736. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2008, 53(1): 107-114.
48. Wang W C, Ge Q S, Hao Z X, et al. Rainy season at Beijing and Shanghai since 1736. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 2008, 86(5): 827-834.
49. Ge Q S, Hao Z X, Tian Y Y, et al. The rainy season in the northwestern part of the East Asian summer monsoon in the 18th and 19th centuries. Quaternary International, 2011, 229(1): 16-23.
50. Zheng J Y, Hao Z X, Ge Q S. Variation of precipitation for the last 300 years over the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences, 2005, 48(12): 2182-2193.
51. Shao X M, Xu Y, Yin Z Y, et al. Climatic implications of a 3585-year tree-ring width chronology from the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2010, 29(17): 2111-2122.
52. Yang B, Qin C, Wang J L, et al. A 3500-year tree-ring record of annual precipitation on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014, 111(8): 2903-2908.
53. Hao Z X, Zheng J Y, Ge Q S. Precipitation cycles in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River (1736-2000). Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2008, 18(1): 17-25.
54. Hao Z X, Zheng J Y, Ge Q S. Variations in the summer monsoon rainbands across eastern China over the past 300 years. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2009, 26: 614-620.
55. Chen F H, Chen J H, Holmes J, et al. Moisture changes over the last millennium in arid central Asia: a review, synthesis and comparison with monsoon region. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2010, 29(7): 1055-1068.
56. Zhang P Z, Cheng H, Edwards R, et al. A test of climate, sun, and culture relationships from an 1810-year Chinese cave record. Science, 2008, 322(5903): 940-942.
57. Zheng Jingyun, Hao Zhixin, Fang Xiuqi, et al. Changing characteristics of extreme climate events during past 2000 years in China. Progress in Geography, 2014, 33(1): 3-12.
58. Liu J, Von Storch H, Chen X, et al. Simulated and reconstructed winter temperature in the eastern China during the last millennium. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2005, 50(24): 2872-2877.
59. Peng Y B, Xu Y, Jin L Y. Climate changes over eastern China during the last millennium in simulations and reconstructions. Quaternary International, 2009, 208(1): 11-18.
60. Wang H L, Liu J, Wang Z Y, et al. Simulated analysis of summer climate on centennial time scale in eastern China during the last millennium. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2011, 56(21): 2229-2235.
61. Liu J, Wang B, Cane M, et al. Divergent global precipitation changes induced by natural versus anthropogenic forcing. Nature, 2013, 493(7434): 656-659.
62. Diaz H, Trigo R, Hughes M, et al. Spatial and temporal characteristics of climate in Medieval Times revisited. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2011, 92(11): 1487-1500.
63. Gu Y J, Wang H L, Liu J. Latitudinal-dependent Response of East Asian Summer Monsoon to External Forcing in the Last Millennium. Acta Meteorologica Sinica, 2010, 24(6): 671-679.
64. Liu J, Wang B, Wang H L, et al. Forced response of the East Asian summer monsoon over the past millennium: Results from a coupled model simulation. Climate Dynamics, 2011, 36: 323-336.
65. Zhou T J, Li B, Man W M, et al. A comparison of the Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age and 20th century Warming simulated by the FGOALS Climate System Model. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2011, 56: 3028-3041.
66. Chen Chao, Shen Xinyong. An analysis of precipitation and atmospheric circulation characteristics over eastern China in the past millennium under different forcing factors. Quaternary Sciences, 2011, 31(5): 873-882.
67. Zhang D D, Jim C, Lin C, et al. Climate change, social unrest and dynastic transition in ancient China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2005, 50(2): 137-144.
68. Zhang D D, Jim C, Lin C, et al. Climatic change, wars and dynastic cycles in China over the last millennium. Climatic Change, 2006, 76(3/4): 459-477.
69. Zhang D D, Brecke P, Lee H, et al. Global climate change, war, and population decline in recent human history. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007, 104(49): 19214-19219.
70. Zhang D D, Zhang J, Lee H, et al. Climate change and war frequency in eastern China over the last millennium. Human Ecology, 2007, 35(4): 403-414.
71. Lee H, Zhang DD, Fok L. Temperature, aridity thresholds, and population growth dynamics in China over the last millennium. Climate Research, 2009, 39(2): 131-147.
72. Lee H., Zhang D. A tale of two population crises in recent Chinese history. Climatic Change, 2013, 116 (2): 285-308.
73. Xu L, Liu Q, Stige L C, et al. Nonlinear effect of climate on plague during the third pandemic in China. PNAS, 2011, 108: 10214-10219.
74. Tian H, Stige L C, Cazelles B, et al. Reconstruction of a 1910-y-long locust series reveals consistent associations with climate fluctuations in China. PNAS, 2011, 108: 14521-14526.
75. Su Y, Fang X Q. Impact of climate change on fluctuations of grain harvests in China from the Western Han Dynasty to the Five Dynasties (206 BC-960 AD). Science in China: Earth Sciences, 2014. doi:10.1007/s11430-013-4795-y.
76. Ge Quansheng, Liu Haolong, Zheng Jingyun. The Climate change and social development over the last two millennia in China. Chinese Journal of Nature, 2013, 35(1): 9-21.
77. Wei Zhudeng, Fang Xiuqi, Su Yun, et al. A review of climatic impacts on Chinese socio-economic development over the past 2000 years. Advances in Earth Science, 2014, 29(3): 336-343.
78. Ge Quansheng, Fang Xiuqi, Zheng Jingyun. Learn from the historical impacts of climatic change in China. Advances in Earth Science, 2014, 29(1): 23-29.
79. Fang Xiuqi, Zheng Jingyun, Ge Quansheng. Historical climate change impact-response processes under the framework of food security in China. Scientia Geographica Sinica, 2014, doi:10.13249/j.cnki.sgs.20140121.014.
80. Wu Wenxiang, Ge Quansheng, Zheng Jingyun, et al. Possible role of climate change in the Mongol westward conquests. Quaternary Science, 2009, 29(4): 724-734.
81. Xiao L B, Fang X Q, Ye Y. Reclamation and revolt: Social responses in Eastern Inner Mongolia to flood/droughtinduced refugees from the North China Plain 1644-1911. Journal of Arid Environments, 2013, 88: 9-16.
82. Ye Y, Fang X, Khan M A U. Migration and reclamation in Northeast China in response to climatic disasters in North China over the past 300 years. Regional Environmental Change, 2012, 12(1): 193-206.