%0 Journal Article
%T Tree-ring-based May每July mean temperature history for L邦liang Mountains, China, since 1836
%A QiuFang Cai
%A Yu Liu
%A Guang Bao
%A Ying Lei
%A Bo Sun
%J Chinese Science Bulletin
%@ 1861-9541
%D 2010
%I 
%R 10.1007/s11434-010-3235-z
%X As a consequence of recent global warming and its social impact, regional climate change is attracting an increasing amount of attention from scientists. A May每July temperature proxy extending back to 1836 was developed from tree-ring width of Chinese pine (Pinus tabulaeformis Carr.) found in the middle L邦liang Mountains, northern China. Correlations with climatic data from six nearby meteorological stations range from  0.58 to  0.65, indicating a strong response of tree-ring index to May每July mean temperatures, which were subsequently reconstructed. The reconstruction captures 45% (F=38.474, P<0.001) of the regional variance in the instrumental data over the calibration period 1955每2003. Reconstructed warm and cold periods were verified by additional temperature reconstructions based on tree-ring data from northern China. In addition, the reconstruction was significantly correlated with May每July mean temperatures from 13 other meteorological stations in northern China, suggesting that our reconstruction is also representative of north-central China. The warming trend during the second half of the 20th century is seen in the reconstruction, but only the 1994每2002 mean temperature seems unprecedented over the whole reconstructed period.
%K L邦liang Mountains
%K Pinus tabulaeformis Carr.
%K tree-ring width
%K temperature
%K reconstruction
%U http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11434-010-3235-z