Non-stationary responses of tree-ring chronologies and glacier mass balance to climate in the European Alps
Tree-ring width and glacier mass balance are two highly sensitive climatic proxies which are often used as indicators of biological and geophysical changes in high- altitude ecosystems. Tree-ring data have been widely used to reconstruct past temperatures and also to reconstruct past glacier mass ba...
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ftunivzuerich:oai:www.zora.uzh.ch:51031 2024-10-06T13:44:31+00:00 Non-stationary responses of tree-ring chronologies and glacier mass balance to climate in the European Alps Leonelli, G Pelfini, M D'Arrigo, R Haeberli, W Cherubini, P 2011 application/pdf https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/51031/ https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/51031/1/2011_HaeberliW_Leonelli_et_al.pdf https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-51031 https://doi.org/10.1657/1938-4246-43.1.56 eng eng University of Colorado, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/51031/1/2011_HaeberliW_Leonelli_et_al.pdf doi:10.5167/uzh-51031 doi:10.1657/1938-4246-43.1.56 urn:issn:0003-0031 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Leonelli, G; Pelfini, M; D'Arrigo, R; Haeberli, W; Cherubini, P (2011). Non-stationary responses of tree-ring chronologies and glacier mass balance to climate in the European Alps. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 43(1):56-65. Institute of Geography 910 Geography & travel Earth-Surface Processes Global and Planetary Change Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Journal Article PeerReviewed info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2011 ftunivzuerich https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-5103110.1657/1938-4246-43.1.56 2024-09-11T00:49:00Z Tree-ring width and glacier mass balance are two highly sensitive climatic proxies which are often used as indicators of biological and geophysical changes in high- altitude ecosystems. Tree-ring data have been widely used to reconstruct past temperatures and also to reconstruct past glacier mass balance. Here we show that tree-ring chronologies from a high-altitude Pinus cembra L. dendroclimatic network and glaciers from the same region in the European Alps have non-stationary responses to air temperature, and have also been responding non-proportionally to temperature extremes in recent decades. Both ring-width chronologies and the mass-balance series of some glaciers from the same region have shown an increasing sensitivity to summer (JJA) temperatures. Our results demonstrate that the sensitivity to climate of tree-ring chronologies and glacier mass balance may change over time and has been increasing in recent decades, posing some limitations to tree-ring-based glacier mass-balance reconstruction. Moreover, we found these reconstructions in the European Alps are more reliable for large rather than for small glaciers, and may not be able to reveal years of extreme ablation that could have occurred in the past. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarctic and Alpine Research Arctic University of Zurich (UZH): ZORA (Zurich Open Repository and Archive |
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Tree-ring width and glacier mass balance are two highly sensitive climatic proxies which are often used as indicators of biological and geophysical changes in high- altitude ecosystems. Tree-ring data have been widely used to reconstruct past temperatures and also to reconstruct past glacier mass balance. Here we show that tree-ring chronologies from a high-altitude Pinus cembra L. dendroclimatic network and glaciers from the same region in the European Alps have non-stationary responses to air temperature, and have also been responding non-proportionally to temperature extremes in recent decades. Both ring-width chronologies and the mass-balance series of some glaciers from the same region have shown an increasing sensitivity to summer (JJA) temperatures. Our results demonstrate that the sensitivity to climate of tree-ring chronologies and glacier mass balance may change over time and has been increasing in recent decades, posing some limitations to tree-ring-based glacier mass-balance reconstruction. Moreover, we found these reconstructions in the European Alps are more reliable for large rather than for small glaciers, and may not be able to reveal years of extreme ablation that could have occurred in the past. |
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Leonelli, G Pelfini, M D'Arrigo, R Haeberli, W Cherubini, P |
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Leonelli, G Pelfini, M D'Arrigo, R Haeberli, W Cherubini, P |
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Non-stationary responses of tree-ring chronologies and glacier mass balance to climate in the European Alps |
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Non-stationary responses of tree-ring chronologies and glacier mass balance to climate in the European Alps |
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Non-stationary responses of tree-ring chronologies and glacier mass balance to climate in the European Alps |
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Non-stationary responses of tree-ring chronologies and glacier mass balance to climate in the European Alps |
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Non-stationary responses of tree-ring chronologies and glacier mass balance to climate in the European Alps |
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non-stationary responses of tree-ring chronologies and glacier mass balance to climate in the european alps |
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University of Colorado, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research |
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Leonelli, G; Pelfini, M; D'Arrigo, R; Haeberli, W; Cherubini, P (2011). Non-stationary responses of tree-ring chronologies and glacier mass balance to climate in the European Alps. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 43(1):56-65. |
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