noaa-recon-19683 West Qinling 500 Year Precipitation Reconstruction Yang, F.; Wang, N.; Shi, F.; Ljungqvist, F.C.; Zhao, S.; Liu, T. West Qinling 500 Year Precipitation Reconstruction 2016-01-14 NCDC-Paleoclimatology ONLINE Files Pending https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/19683 Investigator F. Yang Investigator N. Wang Investigator F. Shi Investigator F.C. Ljungqvist Investigator S. Zhao Investigator T. Liu earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|historical|tree ring precipitation,null,null,millimeter,May-Sep,climate reconstructions|historical|tree ring,anomalized,null,N,null earth science paleoclimate instrumental precipitation,null,null,millimeter,May-Sep,instrumental,anomalized,null,N,null earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|historical|tree ring precipitation,null,range lower bound,millimeter,May-Sep,climate reconstructions|historical|tree ring,anomalized,null,N,null earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|historical|tree ring age,null,null,year Common Era,null,climate reconstructions|historical|tree ring,null,null,N,null earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|historical|tree ring precipitation,null,range upper bound,millimeter,May-Sep,climate reconstructions|historical|tree ring,anomalized,null,N,null earth science paleoclimate reconstructions precipitation geoscientificInformation Precipitation Reconstruction 1470 AD 2010 AD 480 cal yr BP -60 cal yr BP Complete 32 35 102 107 Continent Asia Eastern Asia China West Qinling Region>LATITUDE >LONGITUDE 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 Fengmei Yang, Naiang Wang, Feng Shi, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Sen Zhao, Ting Liu 2016 Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 443 278-285 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.12.003 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018215007294

The West Qinling Mountains form part of the climatic barrier that separates southern and northern China, and are located at the edge of the region dominated by the Asian summer monsoon. To investigate the spatial distribution of regional hydroclimatic variability in the West Qinling region, the annually resolved spatial field of rainy season (May-June-July-August-September, MJJAS) precipitation anomalies from AD 1470 to 2000 was reconstructed using 39 tree-ring chronologies, as well as 28 dryness/wetness indices derived from historical documentary data. The results indicate that the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation (TBO) may jointly affect the spatial pattern of precipitation over the West Qinling Mountains at inter-annual timescales. The drought in the 1990s was found to exceed the amplitude and duration of all other periods of drought that have occurred since AD 1470 in this region. The new precipitation field reconstruction assesses the spatial pattern of historical hydroclimatic variability in the West Qinling region and provides an opportunity to test the performance of climate models in simulating regional precipitation variability and change. STUDY NOTES: Rainy season (May-September) precipitation reconstruction for the West Qinling region, China, for 1470-2000 AD, based on tree-ring chronologies and historical documents.

GET DATA https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/contributions_by_author/yang2016/qinling2016precip.txt Data File; West Qinling 500 Year Precipitation Reconstruction USA/NOAA DIF Version 9.8.4 2018-12-11 2018-12-11