Precipitation Variations in China’s Altay Mountains Detected from Tree Rings Dating Back to AD 1615
As the primary mountain range in Central Asia, the Altay Mountains receive water vapor carried by westerly circulation, resulting in relatively abundant local precipitation and lush pastures in all seasons. Consequently, it has become one of the important transportation routes between Asia and Europ...
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ftmdpi:oai:mdpi.com:/1999-4907/14/7/1496/ 2023-08-20T04:04:44+02:00 Precipitation Variations in China’s Altay Mountains Detected from Tree Rings Dating Back to AD 1615 Wenxuan Pang Qiang Li Yu Liu Huiming Song Changfeng Sun Jiachuan Wang Yalan Yan Qiufang Cai Meng Ren agris 2023-07-21 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.3390/f14071496 EN eng Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Forest Meteorology and Climate Change https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f14071496 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Forests; Volume 14; Issue 7; Pages: 1496 precipitation reconstruction tree rings Siberian larch the Altay Mountains North Arctic Oscillation Text 2023 ftmdpi https://doi.org/10.3390/f14071496 2023-08-01T10:57:41Z As the primary mountain range in Central Asia, the Altay Mountains receive water vapor carried by westerly circulation, resulting in relatively abundant local precipitation and lush pastures in all seasons. Consequently, it has become one of the important transportation routes between Asia and Europe. The exploration of long-term variations in precipitation is meaningful for understanding the ebb and flow of the Asia–Europe steppe trade routes. However, previous dendroclimatological studies of the Altay Mountains focused more on temperature changes than precipitations variations. We carried out a 404-year precipitation reconstruction based on the tree rings of Siberian larch growing on the south slopes of the Altay Mountains, which could explain 45.9% of the variance observed in the February–October precipitation. Our reconstruction demonstrated some severe drought events which could be found in the historical documents, such as the drought in the late Ming Dynasty (1640s) and the Ding-Wu Disaster (1870s). The spatial correlation analysis, cross-wavelet spectrum and wavelet coherency analysis indicated that the precipitation variations in the study area may be related to the ENSO and NAO. This study presents a robust precipitation reconstruction of the southern Altay Mountains, serving as a reference for future research on large-scale climatic forces acting on Altay precipitation. Text Arctic MDPI Open Access Publishing Arctic Forests 14 7 1496 |
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As the primary mountain range in Central Asia, the Altay Mountains receive water vapor carried by westerly circulation, resulting in relatively abundant local precipitation and lush pastures in all seasons. Consequently, it has become one of the important transportation routes between Asia and Europe. The exploration of long-term variations in precipitation is meaningful for understanding the ebb and flow of the Asia–Europe steppe trade routes. However, previous dendroclimatological studies of the Altay Mountains focused more on temperature changes than precipitations variations. We carried out a 404-year precipitation reconstruction based on the tree rings of Siberian larch growing on the south slopes of the Altay Mountains, which could explain 45.9% of the variance observed in the February–October precipitation. Our reconstruction demonstrated some severe drought events which could be found in the historical documents, such as the drought in the late Ming Dynasty (1640s) and the Ding-Wu Disaster (1870s). The spatial correlation analysis, cross-wavelet spectrum and wavelet coherency analysis indicated that the precipitation variations in the study area may be related to the ENSO and NAO. This study presents a robust precipitation reconstruction of the southern Altay Mountains, serving as a reference for future research on large-scale climatic forces acting on Altay precipitation. |
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Precipitation Variations in China’s Altay Mountains Detected from Tree Rings Dating Back to AD 1615 |
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