Reconstruction of the regional summer ground surface temperature in the permafrost region of Northeast China from 1587 to 2008

Autor: Xueping Bai, Xianliang Zhang, Meiting Hou, Yongxing Chang, Zhenju Chen
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Climatic Change. 148:519-531
ISSN: 1573-1480
0165-0009
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-018-2212-4
Popis: To extend the historical temperature record in the permafrost region of Northeast China, we reconstruct the regional ground surface temperature (GST) for the past four centuries based on a network of Dahurian larch (Larix gmelinii Rupr.) tree-ring width chronologies. Seven standard tree-ring chronologies, which correlate well with each other, are averaged to create a regional mean chronology. GST is the major limiting factor for tree growth in this region. The optimum range of GSTs is from 30 May to 26 August (summer GST), identified by combining the days on which tree growth was strongly influenced by the daily GST data. The summer GST was significantly correlated with the regional mean chronology (r = 0.704, p
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