Sakhalin Island, Russian Far East 400 Year Summer Temperature Reconstruction Wiles, G.; Solomina, O.; D'Arrigo, R.D.; Anchukaitis, K.J.; Gensiarovsky, Y.V.; Wiesenberg, N. Wiles, G. Solomina, O. D'Arrigo, R.D. Anchukaitis, K.J. Gensiarovsky, Y.V. Wiesenberg, N. Air Temperature Reconstruction LAGM Larix gmelinii (Rupr.) Kuzen.=L.kurulensis(Maxim ex Regel)Pilg.=L.dahuricaTurcz.exTratv=Larix cajanderi Mayr Dahurian larch earth science/paleoclimate/climate reconstructions|tree ring (age,null,null,year Common Era,null,climate reconstructions|tree ring,null,null,N,null) earth science/paleoclimate/climate reconstructions|tree ring (surface temperature,ring width,null,degree Celsius,May-Jul,climate reconstructions|tree ring,null,regression analysis,N,simple linear regression) earth science/paleoclimate/reconstructions (Chamga Pass>LATITUDE 51.03>LONGITUDE 143.59) A new ring-width record from the eastern flanks of the Eastern Sakhalin Range, Sakhalin Island, Russian Federation is significantly correlated with summer temperatures and allows for the reconstruction of May-July average temperatures for the past 400 years. The reconstruction explains 37 % of the variance in May-July temperatures and shows a strong cooling between 1680 and 1710 CE coincident with the Maunder solar minimum and in agreement with other independent tree-ring reconstructions and glacier histories from sites along the margin of the Sea of Okhotsk. While recent decades are among the warmest in the record they are rivaled by periods centered on 1650 and 1850 CE. Warming in the observational record and the reconstruction is consistent with the influence of the declining strength of the Siberian High and loss of sea ice over the same interval. Decadal (17-25 year) variability persists throughout the reconstruction. At interannual timescales the Sakhalin reconstruction is most strongly correlated with local and central North Pacific sea surface temperatures over the past 120 years, whereas at decadal timescales there is an additional association with Asian land surface temperatures. STUDY NOTES: Summer (May-July) temperature reconstruction for the past 400 years for Sakhalin Island, Russian Far East. Reconstruction is based on linear regression of larch tree ring widths from Chamga Pass, Sakhalin Island, against monthly average temperature values from Yuhzno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Oblast. The tree ring data are archived in the International Tree-Ring Data Bank, site code RUSS243. NCDC-Paleoclimatology https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data - Bauer Bruce Investigator : Wiles, G. Investigator : Solomina, O. Investigator : D'Arrigo, R.D. Investigator : Anchukaitis, K.J. Investigator : Gensiarovsky, Y.V. Investigator : Wiesenberg, N. 2014-12-16 ONLINE Files online, ASCII https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/17595 https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/reconstructions/asia/russia/sakhalin2015temp.txt https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/reconstructions/asia/russia/sakhalin2015temp.txt English https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/17595 https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/reconstructions/asia/russia/sakhalin2015temp.txt Gregory C. Wiles, Olga Solomina, Rosanne D’Arrigo, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Yury V. Gensiarovsky, Nicholas Wiesenberg2014Reconstructed summer temperatures over the last 400 years based on larch ring widths: Sakhalin Island, Russian Far EastClimate Dynamics10.1007/s00382-014-2209-2http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-014-2209-2 START YEAR: 1600 AD * END YEAR: 2004 AD 143.59 51.03 143.59 51.03