Recent advances in dendroclimatology in China

M He, B Yang, A Bräuning, S Rossi, FC Ljungqvist… - Earth-science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Considerable progress has been made in dendroclimatological research in China during
the period 2000–2017, including a significant increase in the spatial coverage of tree-ring …

Recent anthropogenic curtailing of Yellow River runoff and sediment load is unprecedented over the past 500 y

Y Liu, H Song, Z An, C Sun, V Trouet… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The Yellow River (YR) is the fifth-longest and the most sediment-laden river in the world.
Frequent historical YR flooding events, however, have resulted in tremendous loss of life …

The 1920s drought recorded by tree rings and historical documents in the semi-arid and arid areas of northern China

E Liang, X Liu, Y Yuan, N Qin, X Fang, L Huang, H Zhu… - Climatic Change, 2006 - Springer
Using a network of tree-ring data, we show that there had been significant growth decline in
the 1920s and early 1930s throughout a wide area of northern China. This growth …

Fire in ice: two millennia of boreal forest fire history from the Greenland NEEM ice core

P Zennaro, N Kehrwald, JR McConnell… - Climate of the …, 2014 - cp.copernicus.org
Biomass burning is a major source of greenhouse gases and influences regional to global
climate. Pre-industrial fire-history records from black carbon, charcoal and other proxies …

Precipitation variation in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau recorded by the tree rings since 850 AD and its relevance to the Northern Hemisphere temperature

Y Liu, Z An, H Ma, Q Cai, Z Liu, JK Kutzbach… - Science in China …, 2006 - Springer
Abstract Three well-dated Sabina Przewalskii ring-width chronologies from Dulan, China,
have been used to reconstruct annual precipitation (from prior July to current June) …

[PDF][PDF] Rainfall history for the Hexi Corridor in the arid northwest China during the past 620 years derived from tree rings

B Yang, C Qin, A Bräuning, I Burchardt… - International Journal of …, 2011 - researchgate.net
We present a 620-year long ring width record from the middle Qilian Mountains, where it is
presently controlled by the Westerlies. The chronology was developed from Qilian juniper …

Asian Summer Monsoon‐Related Relative Humidity Recorded by Tree Ring δ18O During Last 205 Years

Y Liu, L Wang, Q Li, Q Cai, H Song… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
To deeply understand the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) strength variation in its fringe
region, we established a 205‐year stable oxygen isotope (δ18O) chronology based on four …

Precipitation variability during the past 400 years in the Xiaolong Mountain (central China) inferred from tree rings

K Fang, X Gou, F Chen, D Frank, C Liu, J Li… - Climate Dynamics, 2012 - Springer
We developed the first tree-ring chronology, based on 73 cores from 29 Pinus tabulaeformis
trees, for the Xiaolong Mountain area of central China, a region at the boundary of the Asian …

Seasonal precipitation in the south-central Helan Mountain region, China, reconstructed from tree-ring width for the past 224 years

Y Liu, Q Cai, J Shi, MK Hughes… - Canadian Journal of …, 2005 - cdnsciencepub.com
Chinese pine (Pinus tabulaeformis Carr.) trees from the Helan Mountain range in central
China have been used to reconstruct total January July precipitation from AD 1775 to 1998 …

Changing relationships between tree growth and climate in Northwest China

Y Zhang, M Wilmking, X Gou - Forest Ecology: Recent Advances in Plant …, 2009 - Springer
Recently, several studies have shown changing relationships between tree growth and
climate factors, mostly in the circumpolar north. There, changing relationships with climate …