Reconstruction of temperature series of China for the last 1000 years

• Published in: Chinese Science Bulletin
• Main Authors: Wang ShaoWu, Wen XinYu, Luo Yong, Dong WenJie, Zhao ZongCi, Yang Bao
• Other Authors: Wang, SW (reprint author), Peking Univ, Sch Phys, Dept Atmospher Sci, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China., Peking Univ, Sch Phys, Dept Atmospher Sci, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China., China Meteorol Adm, Lab Climate Studies, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China., China Meteorol Adm, Natl Climate Ctr, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China., Chinese Acad Sci, Cold & Arid Reg Environm & Engn Res Inst, Lab Desert & Desertificat, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China.
• Format: Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 科学通报 英文版 2007
• Subjects: last 1000 years; China; temperature variations; Medieval Warm Period; Little Ice Age; Modern Warming; NORTHERN-HEMISPHERE TEMPERATURES; ICE CORES; CLIMATE; RECORDS; MILLENNIUM; RESOLUTION; VARIABILITY; DELTA-O-18; HOLOCENE; TAIWAN; Peat Lake; ice core
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11897/149065; https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-007-0425-4

This paper reports a study on reconstructing temperature series for ten regions of China over the last 1000 years with a time resolution of 10 a. The regions concerned are: Northeast, North, East, South China, Taiwan, Central, Southwest, Northwest China, Xinjiang and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. A variety of proxy data, such as ice core, tree-rings, stalagmites, peat, lake sediments, pollen and historical records, were validated with instrumental observations made in the last 120 years, and applied in the reconstruction of the temperature series. A temperature series for whole China is then established by averaging the ten regional series with a weighting proportional to the area of each region. Finally, temperature variations for the last 1000 years are examined, with special focus placed on the characteristics of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), the Little Ice Age (LIA), and Modern Warming (MW). http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000251407900017&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701 Multidisciplinary Sciences SCI(E) 33 ARTICLE 23 3272-3280 52