Millennium-Long Tree-Ring Chronology Reveals Megadroughts on the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau

IF 1.1 4区农林科学 Q3 FORESTRY

Tree-Ring Research Pub Date : 2017-03-06 DOI:10.3959/1536-1098-73.1.1

C. Nie, Qibin Zhang, Lixin Lyu

引用次数: 10

Abstract

ABSTRACT Millennium-aged trees are rare in natural forests. Here we present an 1184-year-long tree-ring width chronology from living juniper trees in the Biru area on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Growth-climate response analysis shows that the Biru chronology is significantly and positively correlated with late-spring (May-June) Standardized Precipitation Evaporation Index (SPEI) (r = 0.67, n = 53, p < 0.01). The tree-ring chronology explains 44.5% of the total variance of SPEI during the period AD 1957–2010. Reconstruction of May-June SPEI shows that there was a two-century-long megadrought during the late 13th to late 15th Centuries, and a seven-decade-long megadrought during AD 1630s to 1690s. Comparisons with other moisture records in the region suggest that the two-century megadrought identified in our reconstruction might be a widespread phenomenon most likely reflecting a stage of reduced Southwest Asian Summer Monsoon. Our results provide new evidence on the megadrought events on the Tibetan Plateau for the last millennium.

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千年长树年轮年表揭示青藏高原东南部特大干旱

摘要：千年树龄的树木在天然林中很少见。本文以青藏高原东南部比如地区现存的刺柏为材料，提出了一个1184年长的年轮宽度年表。生长气候响应分析表明，比鲁年表与晚春（5-6月）标准化降水蒸发指数（SPEI）显著正相关（r=0.67，n=53，p<0.01）。年轮年表解释了公元1957–2010年期间SPEI总方差的44.5%。对5月至6月SPEI的重建表明，在13世纪末至15世纪末发生了长达两个世纪的特大干旱，在公元1630年代至1690年代发生了长达70年的特大干旱。与该地区其他湿度记录的比较表明，在我们的重建中发现的两个世纪的特大干旱可能是一种普遍现象，很可能反映了西南亚夏季风减少的阶段。我们的研究结果为青藏高原上千年的特大干旱事件提供了新的证据。

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Tree-Ring Research 农林科学-林学

CiteScore

2.40

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12.50%

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>36 weeks

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