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  <Entry_Title>Shi - Xiaodai - PIMA - ITRDB CHIN073</Entry_Title>
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    <Dataset_Creator>Shi, J.; Lu, H.; Li, J.; Shi, S.; Wu, S.; Hou, X.; Li, L.</Dataset_Creator>
    <Dataset_Title>Shi - Xiaodai - PIMA - ITRDB CHIN073</Dataset_Title>
    <Dataset_Release_Date>2015-09-01</Dataset_Release_Date>
    <Dataset_Publisher>NCDC-Paleoclimatology</Dataset_Publisher>
    <Data_Presentation_Form>ONLINE Files</Data_Presentation_Form>
    <Dataset_DOI>10.25921/f1y2-7b82</Dataset_DOI>
    <Online_Resource>https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/19259</Online_Resource>
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    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>J.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Shi</Last_Name>
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    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>H.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Lu</Last_Name>
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    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>J.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Li</Last_Name>
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    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>S.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Shi</Last_Name>
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  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>S.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Wu</Last_Name>
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  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>X.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Hou</Last_Name>
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  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>L.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Li</Last_Name>
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    <Term>tree-ring</Term>
    <Variable_Level_1>width</Variable_Level_1>
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  <ISO_Topic_Category>geoscientificInformation</ISO_Topic_Category>
  <Keyword>PIMA</Keyword>
  <Keyword>Pinus massoniana Lamb.</Keyword>
  <Keyword>Masson pine</Keyword>
  <Paleo_Temporal_Coverage>
    <Paleo_Start_Date>1846 AD</Paleo_Start_Date>
    <Paleo_Stop_Date>2013 AD</Paleo_Stop_Date>
  </Paleo_Temporal_Coverage>
  <Paleo_Temporal_Coverage>
    <Paleo_Start_Date>104 cal yr BP</Paleo_Start_Date>
    <Paleo_Stop_Date>-63 cal yr BP</Paleo_Stop_Date>
  </Paleo_Temporal_Coverage>
  <Data_Set_Progress>Complete</Data_Set_Progress>
  <Spatial_Coverage>
    <Southernmost_Latitude>28.6</Southernmost_Latitude>
    <Northernmost_Latitude>28.6</Northernmost_Latitude>
    <Westernmost_Longitude>119.45</Westernmost_Longitude>
    <Easternmost_Longitude>119.45</Easternmost_Longitude>
    <Minimum_Altitude>435</Minimum_Altitude>
    <Maximum_Altitude>435</Maximum_Altitude>
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  <Location>
    <Location_Category>Continent</Location_Category>
    <Location_Type>Asia</Location_Type>
    <Location_Subregion1>Eastern Asia</Location_Subregion1>
    <Location_Subregion2>China</Location_Subregion2>
    <Detailed_Location>Xiaodai&gt;LATITUDE 28.6&gt;LONGITUDE 119.45</Detailed_Location>
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    <Author>Jiangfeng Shi, Huayu Lu, Jinbao Li, Shiyuan Shi, Shuangye Wu, Xinyuan Hou, Lingling Li</Author>
    <Publication_Date>2015</Publication_Date>
    <Title>Tree-ring based February-April precipitation reconstruction for the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, southeastern China</Title>
    <Series>Global and Planetary Change</Series>
    <Volume>131</Volume>
    <Pages>82-88</Pages>
    <DOI>10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.05.006</DOI>
    <Online_Resource>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818115000910</Online_Resource>
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    <Abstract>February-April drought strongly affects agriculture and socio-economics in southeastern China, yet its long-term variability has not been assessed due to the shortness of instrumental records. In this study, we reported a 168-year tree-ring width chronology from a steep, low-elevation site with thin soil layers in the Xianxia Mountains, southeastern China. Contrary to the existing chronologies that are mostly temperature sensitive, this chronology contained a strong February-April precipitation signal, indicating great potential for tree-ring based precipitation reconstructions in southeastern China. The reconstruction explained 47.8% of the instrumental variance during 1951-2012. The full reconstruction indicated that there were 3 dry periods (1873-1896, 1924-1971, 1995-2012) and 2 wet periods (1856-1872, 1972-1994) during 1856-2013. The extreme drought in 2011 was not unprecedented for the past 168 years, and the recent severe droughts may be part of interdecadal variations in regional February-April precipitation. Our results also suggested that February-April precipitation in southeastern China was highly influenced by the tropical Pacific climate system, in particular El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
 
          STUDY NOTES: Purpose of Collection: Climatology NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-04-08.</Abstract>
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