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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 31, L13205, doi:10.1029/2004GL019781, 2004

Merging information from different resources for new insights into climate change in the past and future

Shaopeng Huang

Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA


Abstract

An understanding of climate history prior to industrialization is crucial to understanding the nature of the 20th century warming and to predicting the climate change in the near future. This study integrates the complementary information preserved in the global database of borehole temperatures [ Huang et al., 2000 ], the 20th century meteorological record [ Jones et al., 1999 ], and an annually resolved multi proxy model [ Mann et al., 1999 ] for a more complete picture of the Northern Hemisphere temperature change over the past five centuries. The integrated reconstruction shows that the 20th century warming is a continuation to a long-term warming started before the onset of industrialization. However, the warming appears to have been accelerated towards the present day. Analysis of the reconstructed temperature and radiative forcing series [ Crowley, 2000 ] offers an independent estimate of the transient climate-forcing response rate of 0.4–0.7 K per Wm−2 and predicts a temperature increase of 1.0–1.7 K in 50 years.

Received 21 February 2004; accepted 9 June 2004; published 8 July 2004.

Index Terms: 1600 Global Change; 1620 Global Change: Climate dynamics (3309); 1645 Global Change: Solid Earth; 5418 Planetology: Solid Surface Planets: Heat flow.

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Citation: Huang, S. (2004), Merging information from different resources for new insights into climate change in the past and future, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L13205, doi:10.1029/2004GL019781.