noaa-cave-17775 Xianglong Cave 97 Year Stalagmite Growth Rate and Temperature Reconstructions Tan, L.; Yi, L.; Cai, Y.; Shen, C.-C.; Cheng, H.; An, Z. Xianglong Cave 97 Year Stalagmite Growth Rate and Temperature Reconstructions 2015-01-21 NCDC-Paleoclimatology ONLINE Files Pending https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/17775 Investigator L. Tan Investigator L. Yi Investigator Y. Cai Investigator C.-C. Shen Investigator H. Cheng Investigator Z. An earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|speleothems surface temperature,growth rate,null,degree Celsius,Sep-May,climate reconstructions|speleothems,null,regression analysis,N,multiple linear regression earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|speleothems surface temperature,growth rate,95% confidence interval upper bound,degree Celsius,Sep-May,climate reconstructions|speleothems,null,null,N,null earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|speleothems surface temperature,growth rate,null,degree Celsius,Sep-May,climate reconstructions|speleothems,null,null,N,calibration data set: local meteorological station earth science paleoclimate speleothems growth rate,calcium carbonate,null,millimeter per year,null,speleothems,raw,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N,annual cycles in d18O used to calculate annual growth rates earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|speleothems age,null,null,year Common Era,null,climate reconstructions|speleothems,null,null,N,null earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|speleothems surface temperature,growth rate,95% confidence interval lower bound,degree Celsius,Sep-May,climate reconstructions|speleothems,null,null,N,null earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|speleothems surface temperature,growth rate,95% confidence interval upper bound,degree Celsius,Sep-May,climate reconstructions|speleothems,null,regression analysis,N,multiple linear regression earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|speleothems surface temperature,growth rate,95% confidence interval lower bound,degree Celsius,Sep-May,climate reconstructions|speleothems,null,regression analysis,N,multiple linear regression earth science paleoclimate speleothems lithology geoscientificInformation Air Temperature Reconstruction 1912 AD 2008 AD 38 cal yr BP -58 cal yr BP Complete 32.9975 32.9975 106.3281 106.3281 940 940 Continent Asia Eastern Asia China Xianglong Cave>LATITUDE 32.9975>LONGITUDE 106.3281 None Please cite original publication, online resource, dataset and publication DOIs (where available), and date accessed when using downloaded data. If there is no publication information, please cite investigator, title, online resource, and date accessed. The appearance of external links associated with a dataset does not constitute endorsement by the Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of external Web sites or the information, products or services contained therein. For other than authorized activities, the Department of Commerce/NOAA does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. These links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of this Department of Commerce/NOAA Web site. English DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data DATA Center Contact Bruce Bauer bruce.a.bauer@noaa.gov paleo@noaa.gov 303-497-6280 303-497-6513

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Boulder CO 80305-3328 USA online ASCII Liangcheng Tan, Liang Yi, Yanjun Cai, Chuan-Chou Shen, Hai Cheng, Zhisheng An 2013 Quaternary Science Reviews 72 137-145 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.04.022 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379113001625

We used the annual growth rate of a stalagmite (XL21) collected from Xianglong Cave, central China, to quantitatively reconstruct regional terrestrial temperature changes over the last 95 years (1912-2006 AD). Based on a significant positive correlation between the growth rate and the observed temperature, a transfer function was designed, and the temperature from the previous September to May (P9-5) was reconstructed, with an explained variance of 43.5%. Our results show an increasing trend in temperature during the last century, and especially over the last 30 years. The temperature variability from central China recorded here bears a striking similarity to that in the Northern Hemisphere, and also to global trends. However, the cooling between the 1980s and the early 1990s seen in the stalagmite record, which interrupted the warming trend that began in the 1960s, is not observed in the mean conditions found in China, the Northern Hemisphere, neither globally. This methodology for reconstructing historical temperature from stalagmite growth rates overcomes the limitation of the short meteorological observation period and supports the potential of stalagmite lamina climatology. STUDY NOTES: Annual stalagmite growth rate data and temperature reconstructions for the past 97 years from Xianglong Cave, central China.

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