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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,
VOL. 29, NO. 9,
1324,
doi:10.1029/2001GL014485,
2002
General characteristics of temperature variation in China during the last two millennia
Bao Yang
Institute of Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering,
Chinese Academy of Sciences,
China
Achim Braeuning
Institute for Geography,
University of Stuttgart,
Stuttgart,
Germany
Kathleen R. Johnson
Department of Earth and Planetary Science,
University of California,
Berkeley,
CA,
USA
Shi Yafeng
Institute of Geography and Limnology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Nanjing,
210008,
China
Abstract
Three alternate China-wide temperature composites covering the last 2000 years were established by combining multiple paleoclimate
proxy records obtained from ice cores, tree rings, lake sediments and historical documents. Five periods of temperature variation
can be identified: a warm stage in AD 0–240, a cold interval between AD 240 and 800, a return to warm conditions from AD 800–1400,
including the Medieval Warm Period between AD 800–1100, the cool Little Ice Age period between 1400–1920, and the present
warm stage since 1920. Regional temperature variation is found during AD 800–1100, when warm conditions occurred in Eastern
China and in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau and in AD 1150–1380, when the southern Tibetan Plateau experienced a warm interval.
In contrast, evidence for cool conditions during the LIA is more consistent among the proxy records. The temperature reconstructions
for China and the Northern Hemisphere show good agreement over the past millennium.
Published 11
May
2002.
Index Terms: 3344 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Paleoclimatology; 9320 Information Related to Geographic Region: Asia.
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Citation: Yang, B., A. Braeuning, K. R. Johnson, and S. Yafeng
(2002),
General characteristics of temperature variation in China during the last two millennia,
Geophys. Res. Lett.,
29(9),
1324,
doi:10.1029/2001GL014485.
Copyright 2002 by the American Geophysical Union.
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