Spatial and temporal stability of the climatic signal in northern Fennoscandian pine tree-ring width and maximum density

The spatial and temporal stability of the climatic signal in pine tree - ring width and maximum density is examined using data from four sites in northern Sweden and Finland. Moving-window multiple linear regression, using monthly and daily climate data, indicates that ring widths at all sites have been strongly controlled by July temperatures throughout the past century. The relationship between maximum density and temperature is stronger but much less stable across both space and time. Shifts in the hottest part of the summer do not explain large shifts in the period most strongly influencing density. It is concluded that palaeoclimate reconstructions based on northern Fennoscandian pine tree - ring width chronologies should be restricted to the temperature of midsummer (July), whereas maximum density should be used to reconstruct the temperature of a longer growth season (June to August). They thus provide different and compl e mentary palaeoclimate signals. At all four sites, the correlation between maximum density and June to August mean temperature is lowest in the latter half of the 20th century, but split sample tests with strong verification statistics (RE and CE) show that this represents a quantitative change in the strength of the correlation with climate, rather than a qualitative change in the nature of that relationship, and thus does not invalidate climate reconstructions.     

豫西鲁山洛峪口组宏观藻类的发现及地质意义

本文报道在华北地台南缘豫西鲁山下汤九女洞剖面洛峪群洛峪口组下部灰绿色粉砂质页岩中发现可靠的宏观碳质印膜化石,包括Ｃｈｕａｒｉａ,Ｓｈｏｕｈｓｉｅｎｉａ,Ｔａｗｕｉａ,Ｏｖｉｄｉｓｃｉｎａ等属。通过同国内外已发现的前寒武纪宏观藻类资料广泛对比,并结合其他化石资料的综合分析,对华北地台南缘晚前寒武纪地层对比及新元古代地层格架进行探讨。     

An 810‐year history of cold season temperature variability for northern Poland

Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) is a widely used tree species in European dendroclimatology studies due to its common distribution across much of the continent. Almost all studies find radial growth strongly related to summer temperature, a result reflecting site selection at high elevation/latitude environments where trees grow at their ecophysiological limits. Due to the amount of attention spent on these sites there is a geographical and seasonal bias in temperature reconstructions based upon tree‐ring proxies in Europe. To overcome the limited availability of tree‐ring data in temperate lowlands, we present a northern Poland ring‐width chronology developed from living and historic Scots pine material with a strong common growth signal going back to AD 1200. Investigations into climate‐growth relationships found year‐to‐year ring‐width variability to be more strongly correlated to cold season temperature (November to April) prior to the growing season than summer temperatures during tree‐ring formation. Based on this relationship it was possible to reconstruct cold season temperature conditions for the last 810 years. Spatial field correlations with gridded instrumental records indicated that the reconstruction provides relevant cold season temperature information across the land regions bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea, lowlands and uplands of western and central Europe, and the eastern and central interior of Russia. Despite an unsuccessful attempt to find a stationary relationship with the North Atlantic Oscillation, comparisons with several cold season temperature reconstructions confirmed the long‐term connection between our reconstructed temperature series for northern Poland and the wider area.     

贺兰山油松生长的气候响应机制初步探讨

应用VaganovShashkin模型对贺兰山油松的生长变化作了拟合,发现4～8月的降水量大小决定了该年树木生长的宽度变化,另外,除5月外的1～8月份温度和树木生长的负相关是因为较高的温度不利于土壤中水分的保持,间接地导致树木生长的减慢。VS模型在贺兰山地区取得了良好的拟合效果,更为符合树木生长的生理学意义。通过拟合序列和3个采样点树轮宽度序列的对比发现,拟合序列代表着一个较大范围树轮宽窄的变化。坡向对树木生长的影响较大,甚至超过了海拔高度和距离的影响,故建议树木年轮气候学采样应沿着同一坡向采样。     

北大巴山平利县大坪—金岭重晶石矿床地球化学特征与成矿物源分析

大坪—金岭重晶石矿床位于南秦岭平利复背斜南翼,处于大巴山平利穹隆南西缘。通过区域地质构造背景、矿床地质特征、碳氧同位素与稀土元素分析,初步探讨了大坪—金岭重晶石矿床的成矿物质来源和矿床成因。通过地球化学分析结果可知,样品δ¹⁸O_V-SMOW介于1.44‰~2.20‰,测得温度介于60.72~122.87 ℃。矿石与围岩具相似的稀土元素特征,具高LREE/HREE值,δEu负异常,δCe也为负异常,说明重晶石与围岩物质的来源可能相同。结合矿床地质特征研究,认为大坪—金岭重晶石矿床赋矿层位为寒武系鲁家坪组,矿床形成于大陆边缘斜坡,该沉积环境为$SO_{4}^{2-}$形成提供优越的条件,震旦系灯影组地层可能为大坪—金岭重晶石矿床Ba的主要来源,矿床为受断层破碎带控制的低温热液矿床。     

Tree-ring reconstructions of May–June precipitation for western Anatolia

In this study, we aim to examine past dry and wet events for the western Anatolia, performing local and spatial reconstructions. 17 new black pine site chronologies were developed, May–June precipitation time series were reconstructed for four localities, and the first spatial May–June precipitation reconstruction was achieved for western Anatolia. The long-term local May–June precipitation reconstructions contain mostly one-year and, less commonly, two-year drought events. The longest consecutive dry period (AD 1925–1928) in the reconstructed time series for Kütahya lasted four years. Spatial reconstructions revealed that between AD 1786 and 1930 the extreme dry years for all of western Anatolia were AD 1887, 1893, 1794 and 1740. The driest year during the 215-year-long period under consideration was 1887. The wettest years for the entire western Anatolia were determined to be AD 1835, 1876, 1881 and 1901. There is a big overlap between agricultural famine years and dry years as determined from reconstructions. In this context, our study provides a basis for understanding agricultural drought and better management of regional water resources.     

Comparisons of drought variability between central High Asia and monsoonal Asia: Inferred from tree rings

Severe drought is a serious natural disaster that frequently strikes East Asia, highlighting the need to understanding its drought regime and the associations with Asian monsoon. Tree-ring-based drought reconstructions provide invaluable paleoclimatic archives for detecting regional and large-scale drought variability and their potential forcings. We herein reviewed many drought reconstructions from central High Asia and monsoonal Asia and compared their similarities and differences, as well as their linkages to Asia monsoon. We compared the decadal-scale variability of six drought reconstructions for the central High Asia, where differing drought variations were found between the western and eastern portions. Seven drought reconstructions were reviewed for monsoonal Asia, from which a difference in drought variability was observed between the northern and southern parts. Therefore, we compared the drought variations of the four sub-regions of western and eastern parts of central High Asia, as well as northern and southern portions of monsoonal Asia. ENSO activity and sea surface temperature of western Pacific and northern Indian Oceans, coupled with Asian monsoon, play an important role in modulating drought variability of much area of the East Asia. An improved denser multi-index tree-ring network of longer length for East Asia is necessary for the establishment of more reliable large-scale drought reconstruction.     

Correlation of Alaskan varve thickness with climatic parameters, and use in paleoclimatic reconstruction

The thickness of varves in the sediments of Skilak Lake, Alaska, are correlated with the mean annual temperature (r = 0.574), inversely correlated with the mean annual cumulative snowfall (r = −0.794), and not correlated with the mean annual precipitation (r = 0.202) of the southern Alaska climatological division for the years 1907–1934 A.D. Varve thickness in Skilak Lake is sensitive to annual temperature and snowfall because Skilak Glacier, the dominant source of sediment for Skilak Lake, is sensitive to these climatic parameters. Trends of varve thickness are well correlated with trends of mean annual cumulative snowfall ( ) of the southern Alaska climatological division and with trends of mean annual temperature of the southern ( ) and northern ( ) Alaska climatological divisions. Trends of varve thickness also correlate with trends of annual temperature in Seattle and North Head, Washington ( , respectively). Comparisons of trends of varve thickness with trends of annual temperature in California, Oregon, and Washington suggest no widespread regional correlation. Trends of annual snowfall in the southern Alaska climatological division and trends of annual temperature in the southern and northern Alaska climatological divisions are reconstructed for the years 1700–1906 A.D. Climatic reconstructions on the basis of varve thickness in Skilak Lake utilize equations derived from the regression of series of smoothed climatological data on series of smoothed varve thickness. Reconstruction of trends of mean annual cunulative snowfall in the southern Alaska climatological division suggests that snowfall during the 1700s and 1800s was much greater than that during the early and mid-1900s. The periods 1770–1790 and 1890–1906 show marked decreases in the mean annual snowfall. Reconstructed trends of the annual temperature of the northern and southern Alaska climatological divisions suggest that annual temperatures during the 1700s and 1800s were lower than those of the early and mid-1900s. Two periods of relatively high annual temperatures coincide with the periods of low annual snowfall thus determined.     

Long-Term Temperature Trends and Tree Growth in the Taymir Region of Northern Siberia

The northernmost conifers in the world are located well above the Arctic Circle in the Taymir region of northern Siberia and have been recording the thermal environment for centuries to millennia. The trees respond to temperatures beyond the narrow season of actual cambial cell division by means of root growth, photosynthesis, lignification of cell walls, and other biochemical processes. Data from annual tree-ring widths are used to reconstruct May–September mean temperatures for the past four centuries. These warm-season temperatures correlate with annual temperatures and indicate unusual warming in the 20th century. However, there is a loss of thermal response in ring widths since about 1970. Previously the warmer temperatures induced wider rings. Most major warming and cooling trends are in agreement with other high-latitude temperature reconstructions based on tree-ring analyses with some regional differences in timing of cooling in the late 18th century and of warming in the late 19th century.     

Three monthly coral Sr/Ca records from the Chagos Archipelago covering the period of 1950–1995 A.D.: reproducibility and implications for quantitative reconstructions of sea surface temperature variations

In order to assess the fidelity of coral Sr/Ca for quantitative reconstructions of sea surface temperature variations, we have generated three monthly Sr/Ca time series from Porites corals from the lagoon of Peros Banhos (71°E, 5°S, Chagos Archipelago). We find that all three coral Sr/Ca time series are well correlated with instrumental records of sea surface temperature (SST) and air temperature. However, the intrinsic variance of the single-core Sr/Ca time series differs from core to core, limiting their use for quantitative estimates of past temperature variations. Averaging the single-core data improves the correlation with instrumental temperature (r > 0.7) and allows accurate estimates of interannual temperature variations (~0.35°C or better). All Sr/Ca time series indicate a shift towards warmer temperatures in the mid-1970s, which coincides with the most recent regime shift in the Pacific Ocean. However, the magnitude of the warming inferred from coral Sr/Ca differs from core to core and ranges from 0.26 to 0.75°C. The composite Sr/Ca record from Peros Banhos clearly captures the major climatic signals in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, i.e. the El Niño–southern oscillation and the Pacific decadal oscillation. Moreover, composite Sr/Ca is highly correlated with tropical mean temperatures (r = 0.7), suggesting that coral Sr/Ca time series from the tropical Indian Ocean will contribute to multi-proxy reconstructions of tropical mean temperatures.     

Coleoptera from the Late Weichselian deposits at Nørre Lyngby, Denmark and their bearing on palaeoecology, biogeography and palaeoclimate

The freshwater sediments exposed on the cliffs at Nørre Lyngby northern Jutland has long been a classical locality for the study of Danish Quaternary geology, palaeontology and archaeology. These deposits date from the latter part of the Allerød period (i.e. G I-1). Samples for insect analysis have been taken from both the northern and southern exposures of these deposits. Ninety-five- taxa of Coleoptera (beetles) were obtained, of which 69 could be named to species. Of the latter, 23 are not found living in Denmark today. Most of these are still living in northern Fennoscandia but one species is now confined to Mongolia. These assemblages have enabled a detailed picture of the local environment to be reconstructed, showing that the basin-like profile of the deposits represents a section through a channel with slowly moving water. It has been possible to quantify the thermal climate of the time using the Mutual Climatic Range method indicating that mean July temperatures were about 10°C and mean January temperatures were about – 12°C. These figures are considered in the context of Lateglacial climatic reconstructions obtained from coleopteran assemblages elsewhere in northwestern Europe.     

Quantitative reconstruction of climate variability during the Eemian (Merkinė) and Weichselian (Nemunas) in Lithuania

Little is known concerning climate changes in the Eastern Baltic region during the last interglacial–glacial cycle and in particular, climate changes during the Weichselian. In this study, a quantitative reconstruction of the mean January and July temperature for the Medininkai-117 site in Lithuania is presented. The reconstruction is based on pollen and plant macrofossils from this site, which reveal that the vegetation was characteristic of many northern Europe sites during the Eemian and Early Weichselian. Gradual evolution of the vegetation suggests that relatively uniform climate conditions existed during the Eemian. Our reconstructions support the view of a relatively stable Eemian, with short cooling phases of low amplitude. A strong increase in temperature was apparent during the beginning of the interglacial and decrease during the transition to the Weichselian. Reconstructed July temperatures of the Eemian interglacial were approximately 2 °C higher than today (18.5 °C; today: 16.2 °C) and were similar to today for January (− 5.2 °C; today: − 5.1 °C). July temperatures during the Early Weichselian were only ~ 2°C lower than during the Eemian, whereas the January temperatures gradually decreased. Winter temperatures were relatively high (above − 10 °C) during the Early Weichselian.     

天山天格尔山南北坡降水特征研究

对新疆天山天格尔山南北坡乌拉斯台河和乌鲁木齐河流域及其山前平原不同高度气象(水文)站近40a降水实测资料的统计分析,研究天山天格尔山南北坡不同坡向及高度的降水特征.结果表明:山区降水远大于山前平原,南北坡降水均呈现为增加趋势,冬季和夏季降水的增加趋势明显;山前平原区降水的年际变化幅度大于山区;冬、春季降水变率大于夏、秋季,南坡降水变率远大于北坡,冬、春季表现地尤为突出.年际降水的减少趋势出现在乌鲁木齐河流域中山峡谷地带的英雄桥水文站,其春季3月份的降水量减少趋势非常显著;乌鲁木齐河源大西沟气象站4～5月和6～8月月降水呈明显的反相关变化.     

Simulation and Projection of Climate Change in Qinling and Surrounding Areas with NEX-BCC Model

Based on NEX-BCC_CGM1.1 global daily statistics downscaling climate data set, the latest release by American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which has representative concentration path, by using linear fitting and empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis methods, the simulation capacity on precipitation and temperature in Qinling and its surrounding areas of this data sets was estimated and the possible changes of the precipitation, daily maximum and minimum temperature in the next stage under the two scenarios of Rcp4.5 and Rcp8.5 were analyzed. Results showed that: ①The inter-annual trend of average daily precipitation, maximum temperature, minimum temperature is simulated well by NEX-BCC_CGM1.1. The spatial distribution was in accordance with the observations. The deficiency is that the elements value and extreme frequency have systemic bias compared with the observations. ②Average daily precipitation will have increasing trend in the future in Qinling and its surrounding areas under the two scenarios of Rcp4.5 and Rcp8.5. For different level precipitation frequency, light rains will reduce and rainstorms will increase in the future. The spatial modes of precipitation in the future are shown as the variation of the uniform increase in the whole region (EOF1) and anti-phase change in northern and southern Qinling (EOF2). EOF1 will be positive phase in medium-term in the Mid-21^st century, where there will be significantly more means precipitation. ③Under the two scenarios, temperature warming trend is obvious, daily maximum temperature increasing trend is greater than minimum temperature, and the amplitude of temperature increase under Rcp8.5 is higher than Rcp4.5. The frequency of daily maximum temperatures greater than 36 ℃ will increase and low temperature less than -15 ℃ will reduce in the future, at the same time, high temperature (low temperature) increase (decrease) rate is more pronounced under Rcp8.5. Average daily maximum and minimum temperatures are shown uniform warming in the whole region (EOF1) and anti-phase change in northern and southern Qinling under two scenarios, but the spatial distribution has great difference.     

甘肃合作地区早、中三叠世盆地一斜坡沉积环境分析

合作地区位于甘肃省南部,区内三叠系十分发育。殷鸿福等系统研究了区内三叠系地层,确定本区属中秦岭地层分区(图1),并分出南、北两带。南带以扎油沟剖面为典型代表,自老至新的地层单位为下三叠统山尕岭群(T_1s)、中三叠统古浪堤组(T_2g);北带以小河沟—土门关剖面为典型代表,自老至新划分出下三叠统隆务河群(T_1l)、中三叠统古浪堤组(T_2g) 研究该区三叠纪沉积环境对了解秦岭印支期构造发展史以及区内沉积矿产的成因及分布规律有着极重要的意义。     

阿尔金山斜坡的深部电性结构及推覆构造

在柴达木盆地西部边缘的阿尔金山斜坡带上进行了16个测点的大地电磁测深工作。反演结果表明,测区的电性结掏具有明显的南北分区特征。南部表现为低阻特征,与盆地内部相似;北部具有明显的高阻特征。根据电性与地层的追溯对比,结合钻孔与地质资料推测,在柴达木盆地西部的阿尔金山斜坡带上存在由北向南的推覆构造,下古生界和元古界地层推覆在中、新生代地层之上。推覆体宽度和推覆距离均超过10km。     

天山中段树木生长对气候垂直梯度的响应*

文章通过天山中段垂直梯度上多个台站的气候资料,系统分析了不同海拔高度气候变化的时空差异性,以此作为与轮宽资料进行相关分析的基础。进一步利用气候条件较为一致的天山中段鹿角湾、乌鲁木齐河源山区和天池等地森林上限附近树木年轮宽度变化资料,结合前人在这一地区森林内部和森林下限所做的研究,探讨了天山中段树木生长对气候垂直梯度的响应。结果表明,天山山区最大降水高度有明显的季节变化,从而导致气候因子对树木生长影响的复杂性。除了海拔最高的采样点天池(TC)外,其他采样点均与上年8~9月降水总量正相关,与上年7~8月平均温度负相关,与当年4~5月降水总量正相关。而在海拔最高、高山林线附近的采样点与当年2月均温显著正相关,与当年5月气温显著负相关。可以认为,在研究区树木生长主要受到上年7~8月由高温引起的干旱和当年4~5月由降水不足导致的干旱的影响。在接近气候林线处,低温的限制作用才表现出来。     

Soil carbon stock of the Central-East Asia in the climate warming

Water samples from the Wujiang River, a typical karst river system, were analyzed for major ion concentrations and δ^34S values of dissolved sulfate in order to identify the sources of sulfate, quantify the sulfate export flux and understand the role of sulfur cycling in chemical weathering rate of carbonate. Spatial variations in sulfate concentration and sulfur isotopic composition of tributaries over the catchment area are obvious, allowing to decipher S sources between rocks and atmosphere. According to the variations in sulfate concentration and isotopic composition, it is inferred that sulfate ions in the upper-reach river waters may have three sources, rain water, sulfate resultant from oxidation of pyrite in coal, and sulfate from sulfide deposits. In the lower reaches, the S isotopic composition of the samples lies mainly on a mixing trend between evaporite sulfate and rainwater sulfate, the contribution of sulfate from oxidation of pyrite being lesser. A pronounced seasonal variation in both content and isotopic composition of sulfate characterizes the Wujiang River. The average sulfate concentration of the waters is 0.65 mmol/L in winter, 0.17 mmol/L higher than that in summer. River water δ^34S values range from -15.7‰ to 18.9‰ in winter, while the δ^34S values of river waters in summer vary to a lesser extent than in winter, from -11.5‰ to 8.3‰. The δ^34S values of the main stream range from -6.7‰ to -3.9‰ in summer, averaging 3‰ lower than in winter. This indicates that in summer, when the discharge increases, the contribution of a source enriched in light isotopes to the atmosphere or the oxidation of pyrite in coal is more important.     

树轮记录的西北季风边缘区干旱变化

祁连山东部位于亚洲季风西北边缘区,对气候变化十分敏感。由于该区位于半干旱区,降水的变化直接影响人类社会经济的发展,所以研究该区干旱变化情况及其机制非常重要。 利用采自祁连山东部西北季风边缘、地处半干旱区的吐鲁沟地区的油松树轮样芯,建立了树轮宽度年表,时间跨度为1866-2003AD。树轮宽度年表与气象因子相关分析结果显示树木生长主要响应生长季内的降水和干旱变化。该年表与附近区域利用树轮宽度重建的帕尔默干旱指数（PDSI）进行对比,结果显示严重的干旱时间发生在1920s-1930s、1966年、1974年、1982年和1990s和21世纪初。多窗谱分析研究表明,该区年表序列存在显著的2~4 a周期（P<0.05）,该周期与ENSO变率吻合,与在贺兰山、祁连山其他地区、兴隆山及贵清山研究结果一致,表明这些区域可能受共同气候因子的影响。     

太白山芳香寺剖面孢粉记录的古气候重建

本文利用秦岭太白山表土孢粉建立的孢粉-气候模型,对芳香寺剖面孢粉数据进行了气候重建,取得了近千年的气候序列(包括年均温、1月均温、7月均温及年降水量).认为小冰期开始于1200aAD,结束于1920aAD,其中冰盛期为1350aAD~1700aAD.这与史料、古湖泊、树轮、冰川研究的结果基本相近。本区的气候变化与太白山南坡佛爷池地区气候的变化基本一致。由于本区位置较低,且位于北坡,所以气温数值较高,波动幅度大,降温幅值较大及年降水量稍大。本区升温时年较差增大,降温时相反,标志着7月均温对气候变化极为敏感,从而显示夏季风的兴衰不容忽视。