A 903-year annual temperature reconstruction for the southeastern tibetan plateau from the tree ring widths of Juniperus saltuaria.

ABSTRACT: Precisely dated paleoclimatic records are essential for understanding natural and anthropogenic climate influences. Here, an annually resolved absolutely dated Juniperus saltuaria tree ring width chronology from the Haizi mountain, southeastern Tibetan Plateau (TP) was developed. The chronology shows the annual- to decadal-scale paleoclimatic variability of the southeastern TP over the past 903 years (1115-2017 CE). The tree ring widths correlate significantly with mean annual temperature (T_mean). A linear regression model between ring width and T_mean, accounting for 57% of the variance in temperature from 1959 to 2017 CE, was used to reconstruct the past 903 years of T_mean variation in the southeastern TP. The chronology aligns with other temperature recor

SUBMITTER: Xu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11554784 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature