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The Maximum Temperature of May-July Inferred from Tree-ring in Funiu Mountain since 1874 AD

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  • 1. State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, CAS, Xi'an 710075, China;
    2. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China;
    3. Department of Environment Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering of Xi'an University, Xi'an 710049, China;
    4. Power Engineering of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China;
    5. State key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Nanjing 210098, China;
    6. Henan Bureau of Hydrology and Water Resources, Zhengzhou 450003, China

Received date: 2009-03-07

  Revised date: 2209-04-16

  Online published: 2009-07-25

Supported by

National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.40525004; No.40890051; State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, CAS, No.SKLLQG0714; National Basic Research Program of China, No.2004CB720200; No.2006CB400503

Abstract

Tree-ring width chronology was constructed by using the tree ring cores of Pinus tabulaeformis Carr. from two sites on Funiu Mountain in western Henan Province. Correlation analysis showed that the tree ring index was closely related to average maximum temperature of May-July. We reconstructed the average maximum temperature of May-July for Funiu region from 1874 to 2007. "Jackknife" and "Bootstrap" methods were used respectively to estimate reliability of regression function based on statistics between the observed and reconstructed series. The explained variance reaches 40% (39% after adjusted degree of freedom). The overall test results sufficiently supported the validity of our regression model. Reconstruction indicated that there were 4 cold and 5 warm periods for the past 134 years respectively in this area. The most significant warm period during the entire reconstruction occurred between the 1920s and 1940s, and then the temperature began to decrease and reached to the lowest point in the 1950s. After a slight rise, it decreased again during the 1970s and 1980s. The temperature has increased rapidly since the late 1980s, showing a warming trend. Both the Funiu and Nanwutai temperature curves can be well compared after 10-year moving average, and they showed the regional trends synchronously.

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TIAN Qinhua1, 2, LIU Yu1, 3, CAI Qiufang1, BAO Guang1, 2, WANG Weiping4, XU . The Maximum Temperature of May-July Inferred from Tree-ring in Funiu Mountain since 1874 AD[J]. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2009 , 64(7) : 879 -887 . DOI: 10.11821/xb200907012

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