Synchronous multi-decadal climate variability of the whole Pacific areas revealed in tree rings since 1567
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15549627 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keyan Fang (0000-0002-0207-0112, Fujian Normal University, corresponding author), Edward R Cook (0000-0001-7478-4176, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), Edward Cook, Zhengtang Guo (0000-0003-2259-9715, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Deliang Chen (0000-0003-0288-5618, University of Gothenburg), Tinghai Ou (0000-0002-6847-4099, University of Gothenburg), Yan Zhao (0009-0007-8186-9443, Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 024016-024016 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-06 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Research Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326 |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/aa9f74 |
| OpenAlex | W2772785050 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 41 |
Oceanic and atmospheric patterns play a crucial role in modulating climate variability from interannual to multi-decadal timescales by causing large-scale co-varying climate changes. The brevity of the existing instrumental records hinders the ability to recognize climate patterns before the industrial era, which can be alleviated using proxies. Unfortunately, proxy based reconstructions of oceanic and atmospheric modes of the past millennia often have modest agreements with each other before the instrumental period, raising questions about the robustness of the reconstructions. To ensure the stability of climate signals in proxy data through time, we first identified tree-ring datasets from distant regions containing coherent variations in Asia and North America, and then interpreted their climate information. We found that the multi-decadal covarying climate patterns of the middle and high latitudinal regions around the northern Pacific Ocean agreed quite well with the climate reconstructions of the tropical and southern Pacific areas. This indicates a synchronous variability at the multi-decadal timescale of the past 430 years for the entire Pacific Ocean. This pattern is closely linked to the dominant mode of the Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) after removing the warming trend. This Pacific multi-decadal SST variability resembles the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation
Climate change · Climate model · Climate pattern · Climate system · Climatology · Dendrochronology · Dendroclimatology · El Niño Southern Oscillation · Pacific decadal oscillation · Pacific ocean · Proxy (statistics · Sea surface temperature · Climate variability and models · Environmental Science · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Tree-ring climate responses · Geology · Oceanography
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |