Multi-scale temperature variations and their regional differences in China during the Medieval Climate Anomaly

Zhixin HAO; Maowei WU; Yang LIU; Xuezhen ZHANG; Jingyun ZHENG

doi:10.1007/s11442-020-1718-7

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Journal of Geographical Sciences
Vol. 30, Issue 1, 119 (2020)

Multi-scale temperature variations and their regional differences in China during the Medieval Climate Anomaly

Zhixin HAO^{1、1、1、1}, Maowei WU^1、1, Yang LIU^{1、1、1、1}, Xuezhen ZHANG^{1、1、1、1}, and Jingyun ZHENG^{1、1、1、1、1、1、*}

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¹1Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China

¹2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Zhixin HAO, Maowei WU, Yang LIU, Xuezhen ZHANG, Jingyun ZHENG. Multi-scale temperature variations and their regional differences in China during the Medieval Climate Anomaly[J]. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2020, 30(1): 119 Copy Citation Text

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Fig. 1. Temperature reconstructions for China (a) and different regions of China (b-f)

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Fig. 2. EEMD analysis of reconstructed temperature series for different regions in China

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Region	Proxy	Spatial coverage	Indicator	Reconstructed period	Time resolution	Reference
Northeast China	Integrated from 5 series including δ¹⁸O in peat, long-chain alkenone, stalagmite microlayer thickness, and warm/cold records.	About 110 º-130 ºE, 36 º-50 ºN	Annual mean temperature	AD 1-2000	10 yr	Ge et al., 2013a
Northwest China	Integrated from 2 series of juniper tree ring width from the northern slope of Qilian Mountain.	About 80 º-110ºE, 38ºN to the north border	Annual mean temperature	AD 850-2000	10 yr	Ge et al., 2013a
Central-east China	Integrated from 11 series of historical warm/cold records, 3 of which started from 1380 and 8 of which started from 1470.	About 105º-122 ºE, 24 º-36 ºN	Annual mean temperature	AD 1-2000	10 yr	Ge et al., 2013a
Tibetan Plateau	Integrated from 8 series including δ¹⁸O in ice cores, juniper tree ring width, total organic carbon, and long-chain alkenone.	About 80 º-102 ºE, 25º-38 ºN	Annual mean temperature	AD 1-2000	10 yr	Ge et al., 2013a
Eastern Tibetan Plateau	Integrated from 12 chronologies from tree ring width.	87 º-102ºE, 27 º-38ºN, 3100-4500 m	Mean temperature from June to August	AD 1000-2005	1 yr	Wang et al., 2015