noaa-tree-1003402 Greater Tatra Region, 1040-2011 AD, tree ring width, Larix decidua Mill., PAGES Euro-Med 2k Version Büntgen, U.; Kyncl, T.; Ginzler, C.; Jacks, D.S.; Esper, J.; Tegel, W.; Heussner, K.-U.; Kyncl, J. Greater Tatra Region, 1040-2011 AD, tree ring width, Larix decidua Mill., PAGES Euro-Med 2k Version 2013-05-15 NCDC-Paleoclimatology ONLINE Files 10.25921/f3jd-5b39 https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/1003402 Investigator U. Büntgen Investigator T. Kyncl Investigator C. Ginzler Investigator D.S. Jacks Investigator J. Esper Investigator W. Tegel Investigator K.-U. Heussner Investigator J. Kyncl earth science paleoclimate tree-ring geoscientificInformation PAGES 2k Network PAGES Euro-Med 2k LADE Larix decidua Mill. European larch 1040 AD 2011 AD 910 cal yr BP -61 cal yr BP Complete 49 50 19 21 Continent Europe Eastern Europe Tatra 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 Ulf Büntgen, Tomás Kyncl, Christian Ginzler, David S. Jacks, Jan Esper, Willy Tegel, Karl-Uwe Heussner, and Josef Kyncl. 2013. Filling the Eastern European gap in millennium-long temperature reconstructions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 14-January-2013. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1211485110

Tree ring-based temperature reconstructions form the scientific backbone of the current global change debate. Although some European records extend into medieval times, high-resolution, long-term, regional-scale paleoclimatic evidence is missing for the eastern part of the continent. Here we compile 545 samples of living trees and historical timbers from the greater Tatra region to reconstruct interannual to centennial-long variations in Eastern European May-June temperature back to 1040 AD. Recent anthropogenic warming exceeds the range of past natural climate variability. Increased plague outbreaks and political conflicts, as well as decreased settlement activities, coincided with temperature depressions. The Black Death in the mid-14th century, the Thirty Years War in the early 17th century, and the French Invasion of Russia in the early 19th century all occurred during the coldest episodes of the last millennium. A comparison with summer temperature reconstructions from Scandinavia, the Alps, and the Pyrenees emphasizes the seasonal and spatial specificity of our results, questioning those large-scale reconstructions that simply average individual sites. STUDY NOTES: A total of 545 larch (Larix decidua Mill.) TRW samples were collected at seven forest sites and >30 historical buildings within the greater Tatra region in northern Slovakia (SI Appendix, Fig. S1). All living and historical material originates from approximately the same elevational range between 800 and 1,200 m asl and is therefore expected to reflect similar climatic information. The 282 recent TRW measurement series were cross-dated and processed at the site level, whereas the 263 relict samples were pooled before their dendroclimatological assessment.

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