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Climate History of Asia (Excluding China)

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As the largest landmass on Earth, Asia’s climatic history is of paramount importance. However, with the exception of China, research on the historical climatology of the continent remains in its infancy. Climate reconstructions using Islamic sources have been undertaken for Arabia and West Asia, particularly for the first millennium ce. For the Indian subcontinent, reconstruction has primarily used colonial sources, so information about past climatic variability exists mainly for the last three centuries. For Indonesia, colonial records have substantial potential, having been used previously only to compile disaster chronologies. Documentary reconstruction in Russia is minimal, with the exception of a review produced by Borisenkov in 1992. Climate reconstruction is far more advanced in Japan, including highly robust long-term temperature reconstructions from the dates of spring flowering and lake ice records.

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    Fleming, 1998.

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    Cook et al., 2010.

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    Domínguez-Castro et al., 2012.

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    Grotzfeld, 1991, 1995; Bulliett, 2009; Weintritt, 2009; Vogt et al., 2011; Domínguez-Castro et al., 2012, 2014; de Miguel, 1988.

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    Domínguez-Castro et al., 2014.

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    Grotzfeld, 1995.

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    e.g., McCormick et al., 2012a, 2012b.

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    Telelis, 2008; Haldon et al., 2014; Xoplaki et al., 2016.

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    White, 2011; Xoplaki et al., 2018.

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    Grove, 1998.

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    Walsh et al., 1999.

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    Adamson and Nash, 2013, 2014.

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    Adamson et al., 2014.

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    Pant et al., 1993.

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    Ingram et al., 1981.

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    Mikami, 2008.

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    Aono and Omoto, 1994; Aono and Kazui, 2008; Aono and Saito, 2010.

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    Aono, 2015.

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    Mikami, 2008.

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    Grossman and Zaiki, 2009.

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    Kong and Watts, 1992.

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    Lim and Shim, 2002.

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    Ribera et al., 2004, 2008; García-Herrera et al., 2007.

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    Lieberman, 2011.

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    Buckley et al., 2014.

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    Reid, 1990; Boomgaard, 2001.

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    Borisenkov, 1995.

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    Cook et al., 2010.

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    Adamson and Nash, 2014.

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  2. School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

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  3. School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Adamson, G.C.D., Nash, D.J. (2018). Climate History of Asia (Excluding China). In: White, S., Pfister, C., Mauelshagen, F. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43020-5_18

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