noaa-recon-22891 Western Estonia 238 Year June Precipitation Reconstruction Helama, S.; Sohar, K.; Läänelaid, A.; Bijak, S.; Jaagus, J. Western Estonia 238 Year June Precipitation Reconstruction 2017-10-13 NCDC-Paleoclimatology ONLINE Files Pending https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/22891 Investigator S. Helama Investigator K. Sohar Investigator A. Läänelaid Investigator S. Bijak Investigator J. Jaagus 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 precipitation,ring width,95% confidence interval lower bound,millimeter,Jun,climate reconstructions|tree ring,null,null,N,null earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|tree ring precipitation,ring width,95% confidence interval upper bound,millimeter,Jun,climate reconstructions|tree ring,null,null,N,null earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|tree ring precipitation,ring width,99% confidence interval upper bound,millimeter,Jun,climate reconstructions|tree ring,null,null,N,null earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|tree ring precipitation,ring width,null,millimeter,Jun,climate reconstructions|tree ring,null,null,N,null earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|tree ring precipitation,ring width,99% confidence interval lower bound,millimeter,Jun,climate reconstructions|tree ring,null,null,N,null earth science paleoclimate reconstructions precipitation geoscientificInformation Precipitation Reconstruction 1771 AD 2008 AD 179 cal yr BP -58 cal yr BP Complete 58 59.5 22 25 Continent Europe Northern Europe Estonia Western Estonia>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 Samuli Helama, Kristina Sohar, Alar Läänelaid, Szymon Bijak, and Jaak Jaagus 2017 Climate Dynamics 10.1007/s00382-017-3862-z https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00382-017-3862-z

There is plenty of evidence for intensification of the global hydrological cycle. In Europe, the northern areas are predicted to receive more precipitation in the future and observational evidence suggests a parallel trend over the past decades. As a consequence, it would be essential to place the recent trend in precipitation in the context of proxy-based estimates of reconstructed precipitation variability over the past centuries. Tree rings are frequently used as proxy data for palaeoclimate reconstructions. Here we use deciduous (Quercus robur) and coniferous (Picea abies) tree-ring width chronologies from western Estonia to deduce past early-summer (June) precipitation variability since 1771. Statistical model transforming our tree-ring data into estimates of precipitation sums explains 42% of the variance in instrumental variability. Comparisons with products of gridded reconstructions of soil moisture and summer precipitation illustrate robust correlations with soil moisture (Palmer Drought Severity Index), but lowered correlation with summer precipitation estimates prior to mid-nineteenth century, these instabilities possibly reflecting the general uncertainties inherent to early meteorological and proxy data. Reconstructed precipitation variability was negatively correlated to the teleconnection indices of the North Atlantic Oscillation and the Scandinavia pattern, on annual to decadal and longer scales. These relationships demonstrate the positive precipitation anomalies to result from increase in zonal inflow and cyclonic activity, the negative anomalies being linked with the high pressure conditions enhanced during the atmospheric blocking episodes. Recently, the instrumental data have demonstrated a remarkable increase in summer (June) precipitation in the study region. Our tree-ring based reconstruction reproduces this trend in the context of precipitation history since eighteenth century and quantifies the unprecedented abundance of June precipitation over the recent years. STUDY NOTES: A continuous 238-year long June precipitation reconstruction has been developed from oak (QURO) and spruce (PCAB) ring-width chronologies comprising living and historical tree-ring samples for western Estonia (59.5-58.0N, 22.0-25.0E).

GET DATA https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/reconstructions/europe/estonia/estonia2017precip.txt Formatted Text Data File; Western Estonia June Precipitation Reconstruction USA/NOAA DIF Version 9.8.4 2018-12-11 2018-12-11