Decadal cimatic variations indicated by dulan tree-ring and comparison with other proxy data in China of the last 2000 years |
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| Authors: | Bao Yang Xing-cheng Kang Ya-feng Shi |
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| Institution: | (1) Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 210008 Nanjing, P. R. China;(2) Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 730000 Lanzhou, P. R. China |
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| Abstract: | Based on high-resolution tree-ring data from Dulan area of Qinghai Province, five spells have been divided: the warm period
before 230’s A. D., the cold period between 240’s A. D. and 800’s A. D., the significantly warm period between 810’s A. D.
and 1070’s, i. e. “Medieval Warm Period”, the cold period including the “Little Ice Age” 1420’ – 1870’s and the warming period
since 1880’s. All the eleven coldest or warmest decades and several great abrupt changes took place before the Middle Ages,
indicating that climatic system operated in great instability during the period 150’s – 1100’s A. D., Comparison of the tree-ring
data with other temperature proxy data from East China, Guliya ice core as well as the south of Qinghai-Xizang Plateau shows
that such great climatic events as Eastern Han warm period between the beginning of the 1st century and the previous fifty
years of the third century, the cold period covering the span of the Wei, the Jin, and the Southern and Northern dynasties,
the well-known “Medieval Warm Period” as well as the “Little Ice Age” appeared in these series such as East China and Dulan
area. Only the first two climatic events were recorded conspicuously in Guliya ice core while the “Medieval Warm Period” and
“Little Ice Age” is far weaker. Also, the well-defined “Medieval Warm Period” didn’t occurred in the south of Qinghai-Xizang
Plateau. The warming since the 20th century is the warmest in the last 2000 years Guliya ice core, the second in Dulan area
and East China, but it scarcely seems pronounced in the eastern part of Qinghai-Xizang Plateau.
Foundation item: Under the auspices of the projects of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZ951-A1-204-02 and KZ951-A1 402-03).
Biography: YANG Bao(1971–), male, a native of Yanggao County, Shanxi Province, Ph. D. His research interestinclude global
change. |
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| Keywords: | Chronology of Qinghai Dulan area the last two millennia East China Guliya ice core |
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