noaa-tree-1003403
Central Europe, 500 BC - 2003 AD, tree ring width, Stone pine and European Larch, PAGES Euro-Med 2k Version
Büntgen, U.; Tegel, W.; Nicolussi, K.; McCormick, M.; Frank, D.C.; Trouet, V.; Kaplan, J.O.; Herzig, F.; Heussner, K.-H.; Wanner, H.; Luterbacher, J.; Esper, J.
Central Europe, 500 BC - 2003 AD, tree ring width, Stone pine and European Larch, PAGES Euro-Med 2k Version
2013-05-15
NCDC-Paleoclimatology
ONLINE Files
10.25921/wb95-9f96
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/1003403
Investigator
U.
Büntgen
Investigator
W.
Tegel
Investigator
K.
Nicolussi
Investigator
M.
McCormick
Investigator
D.C.
Frank
Investigator
V.
Trouet
Investigator
J.O.
Kaplan
Investigator
F.
Herzig
Investigator
K.-H.
Heussner
Investigator
H.
Wanner
Investigator
J.
Luterbacher
Investigator
J.
Esper
earth science
paleoclimate
tree-ring
geoscientificInformation
PAGES 2k Network
PAGES Euro-Med 2k
LADE
Larix decidua Mill.
European larch
-500 AD
2006 AD
2450 cal yr BP
-56 cal yr BP
Complete
45
53
6
20
Continent
Europe
Central Europe>LATITUDE 49>LONGITUDE 13
None
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Büntgen, U., W. Tegel, K. Nicolussi, M. McCormick, D. Frank,
V. Trouet, J.O. Kaplan, F. Herzig, K.-U. Heussner, H. Wanner,
J. Luterbacher, and J. Esper. 2011.
2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility.
Science, Vol. 331, pp. 578-583, 4 February 2011.
DOI: 10.1126/science.1197175
Climate variations influenced the agricultural productivity,
health risk, and conflict level of preindustrial societies.
Discrimination between environmental and anthropogenic impacts
on past civilizations, however, remains difficult because of
the paucity of high-resolution paleoclimatic evidence.
We present tree ring–based reconstructions of central European
summer precipitation and temperature variability over the past
2500 years. Recent warming is unprecedented, but modern
hydroclimatic variations may have at times been exceeded
in magnitude and duration. Wet and warm summers occurred
during periods of Roman and medieval prosperity. Increased
climate variability from ~250 to 600 C.E. coincided with
the demise of the western Roman Empire and the turmoil of
the Migration Period. Such historical data may provide a basis
for counteracting the recent political and fiscal reluctance
to mitigate projected climate change.
STUDY NOTES: A central European summer temperature proxy was developed based on 1089 stone pine (Pinus cembra) and 457 European larch (Larix decidua) ring width series from high-elevation
sites in the Austrian Alps and adjacent areas. This composite record includes living trees, historical timber, and subfossil wood, and correlates at 0.72 to 0.92 with interannual to multidecadal
variations in instrumental June-to-August (JJA) temperature (1864–2003). The new proxy is significantly positive correlated with 20th century JJA temperatures of central Europe and the Mediterranean
region, and possesses high- to low-frequency agreement with an independent maximum latewood density-based temperature surrogate from the Swiss Alps (r = 0.35 to 0.44; 755 to 2003 C.E.).
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https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/10394
Original Data Source; Study ID 10394
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2018-12-11
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