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Warm season temperature in the Qinling Mountains (north-central China) since 1740 CE recorded by tree-ring maximum latewood density of Shensi fir

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Land-surface temperature changes lead to thermal contrasts between the land and the sea and have significant water cycle impacts particularly within global monsoon regions. Whilst such influence may dominate in the East Asian summer monsoon region, the long-term warm-season temperature dynamics in monsoonal China have not been effectively explored. Here, an annually resolved maximum latewood density (MXD) record from annual tree rings of Shensi fir (A. chensiensis) in the Qinling Mountains (north-central China) provide an East Asian summer monsoon-region relevant 270-year long March-September temperature reconstruction. Our MXD-based temperature reconstruction shows good agreement with phases of observed warming in the 1920s-1950s and 1990s-2000s, a more recent warming hiatus and earlier volcanic-induced cooling phases. Our temperature reconstruction is also significantly correlated with sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean and reveals that there is an unstable influence of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) on warm season temperature variability in north-central China. Our warm season temperature reconstruction is sensitive to summer monsoonal season moisture variations in north-central China and provides a multi century perspective on the region’s climate which is useful to improving the understanding of monsoonal East Asian climate change and anticipated future extreme drought events in northern China.

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This research was supported by NSFC (3191101770) and the National Key R&D Program of China, Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (2018YFA0606401). We greatly appreciate the comments of the anonymous reviewers.

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  1. Yunnan Key Laboratory of International Rivers and Transboundary Eco-Security, Institute of International Rivers and Eco-Security, Yunnan University, Kunming, China

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  2. Key Laboratory of Tree-Ring Physical and Chemical Research of China Meteorological Administration/Xinjiang Laboratory of Tree-Ring Ecology, Institute of Desert Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Urumqi, China

    Feng Chen, Heli Zhang & Ziang Fan

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    Mary H. Gagen

  4. Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences and Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, 100101, China

    Fahu Chen

  5. Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

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Chen, F., Gagen, M.H., Zhang, H. et al. Warm season temperature in the Qinling Mountains (north-central China) since 1740 CE recorded by tree-ring maximum latewood density of Shensi fir. Clim Dyn 57, 2653–2667 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05827-4

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