Challenges and perspectives for large‐scale temperature reconstructions of the past two millennia

B Christiansen, FC Ljungqvist - Reviews of Geophysics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Knowledge of the temperature variability during the last one to two millennia is
important for providing a perspective to present‐day climate excursions, for assessing the …

Ranking of tree-ring based temperature reconstructions of the past millennium

J Esper, PJ Krusic, FC Ljungqvist, J Luterbacher… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Tree-ring chronologies are widely used to reconstruct high-to low-frequency variations in
growing season temperatures over centuries to millennia. The relevance of these timeseries …

A 3,500-year tree-ring record of annual precipitation on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

B Yang, C Qin, J Wang, M He, TM Melvin… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - pnas.org
An annually resolved and absolutely dated ring-width chronology spanning 4,500 y has
been constructed using subfossil, archaeological, and living-tree juniper samples from the …

The last millennium climate reanalysis project: Framework and first results

GJ Hakim, J Emile‐Geay, EJ Steig… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
An “offline” approach to DA is used, where static ensemble samples are drawn from existing
CMIP climate‐model simulations to serve as the prior estimate of climate variables. We use …

Internal and external forcing of multidecadal Atlantic climate variability over the past 1,200 years

J Wang, B Yang, FC Ljungqvist, J Luterbacher… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract The North Atlantic experiences climate variability on multidecadal scales, which is
sometimes referred to as Atlantic multidecadal variability. However, the relative contributions …

Large-scale, millennial-length temperature reconstructions from tree-rings

J Esper, SS George, K Anchukaitis, R D'Arrigo… - …, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the past two decades, the dendroclimate community has produced various annually
resolved, warm season temperature reconstructions for the extratropical Northern …

Asian summer precipitation over the past 544 years reconstructed by merging tree rings and historical documentary records

H Shi, B Wang, ER Cook, J Liu, F Liu - Journal of Climate, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Sparse long-term Asian monsoon (AM) records have limited our ability to understand and
accurately model low-frequency AM variability. Here we present a gridded 544-yr (from 1470 …

A millennial summer temperature reconstruction for the eastern Tibetan Plateau from tree-ring width

J Wang, B Yang, FC Ljungqvist - Journal of Climate, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Although tree-ring-width-based temperature reconstructions of centennial-to-millennial
length have previously been published for many parts of the eastern Tibetan Plateau (ETP) …

What have we learnt from palaeoclimate simulations?

SP Harrison, PJ Bartlein… - Journal of Quaternary …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
There has been a gradual evolution in the way that palaeoclimate modelling and
palaeoenvironmental data are used together to understand how the Earth System works …

Are Karakoram temperatures out of phase compared to hemispheric trends?

F Asad, H Zhu, H Zhang, E Liang, S Muhammad… - Climate Dynamics, 2017 - Springer
In contrast to a global retreating trend, glaciers in the Karakoram showed stability and/or
mass gaining during the past decades. This “Karakoram Anomaly” has been assumed to …