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1. Tree-climate relations along an elevational transect in Manang Valley, central Nepal

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Santosh Rayamajhi, Udya Kuwar Thapa, Scott St. George, Dinesh Raj Bhuju, Deepak Kumar Kharal, and Henrik Meilby

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Hydrology, education.field_of_study, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Ecology, biology, Abies spectabilis, Population, Elevation, Growing season, Plant Science, biology.organism_classification, 01 natural sciences, Geography, Productivity (ecology), Evapotranspiration, Physical geography, Precipitation, education, Transect, 010606 plant biology & botany, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract

Elevation is a strong determinant of local climate and may therefore be an important factor to consider when examining the association between climate and tree growth. In this study, we developed a set of tree-ring width records for Abies spectablis (D.Don Spach) in the Manang Valley of central Nepal Himalaya and tested how tree growth and the relationship between tree growth and climate varied across a 450-m elevation transect. The sampled trees had a median age of 115 years, and the oldest individual specimen, which was located at 3775 m, had more than 212 rings. The common signal shared across the tree-ring series was relatively weak, which is typical for ring-width chronologies from the Himalayas. Even though these forests are located within a semi-arid climate, temperature had a stronger and more consistent influence on Abies growth than precipitation. All three chronologies across the transect exhibited a negative relationship with mean March–June temperatures, which could reflect the impact of warm weather during the early part of the growing season, possibly mediated through its influence on evapotranspiration and soil moisture. While interannual fluctuations in tree growth were synchronous across sites, longer-term trends in growth varied across the transect, with high-elevation trees showing elevated growth during the last two or three decades and lower-elevation trees behaving just the opposite. These disparate trends suggest the factors that control longer-term trends in forest productivity vary substantially with elevation. For studies intending to use tree-ring width records in the Trans Himalaya as climate proxies, it may be preferable to collect specimens at lower forest sites, where the agreement across the population of trees is stronger. Because longer-term trends in ring width can differ substantially from one elevation to another in this region, it may also be necessary to collect a greater number of samples from several positions along an elevation gradient.

Published
2017

2. A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

Author

Dmitry Divine, Dmitriy V. Ovchinnikov, Hugues Goosse, Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz, Anne Hormes, Narayan Prasad Gaire, Joelle Gergis, Katrine Husum, David J. Nash, Konrad Gajewski, Jens Zinke, Vladimir Mikhalenko, Darrell S. Kaufman, Eugene R. Wahl, Martin Grosjean, Nancy A. N. Bertler, Pierre Francus, Anastasia Gornostaeva, Diana Vladimirova, Kaustubh Thirumalai, Lucien von Gunten, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Michael Sigl, Ryu Uemura, Michael N. Evans, Hideaki Motoyama, Scott St. George, Marie-Alexandrine Sicre, Chris S. M. Turney, Johannes P. Werner, Robert Mulvaney, Jianghao Wang, Brian M. Chase, Mark A. J. Curran, Julien Emile-Geay, Takeshi Nakatsuka, David J. Sauchyn, Nerilie J. Abram, Bronwyn C. Dixon, Raphael Neukom, Cody C. Routson, Trevor J. Porter, Selvaraj Kandasamy, Mirko Severi, Massimo Frezzotti, Steven J. Phipps, Hans W. Linderholm, A. E. Viau, P. Graham Mortyn, Jessica E. Tierney, Eric J. Steig, Heidi A. Roop, K. Halimeda Kilbourne, Jason A. Addison, Jonathan J. Tyler, Mandy Freund, Daniel A. Dixon, Belen Martrat, Chenxi Xu, Krystyna M. Saunders, Min Te Chen, Xuemei Shao, Vasile Ersek, Philipp Munz, Hans Oerter, Masaki Sano, Zhixin Hao, Meloth Thamban, Alexey A. Ekaykin, Barbara Stenni, Kazuho Horiuchi, Ignacio A. Mundo, Zicheng Yu, Gregory T. Pederson, James W. C. White, Nalan Koc, Elisabeth Isaksson, Kathryn Allen, Rixt de Jong, Jeannine-Marie St. Jacques, Andrew Lorrey, Guillaume Leduc, Quansheng Ge, Kristine L. DeLong, Kenji Kawamura, Anais Orsi, Thomas Opel, Edward R. Cook, Kate E. Sinclair, Benjamin J. Henley, Nicholas P. McKay, Helen McGregor, Andrew D. Moy, Elizabeth R. Thomas, Jesper Björklund, Helena L. Filipsson, Udya Kuwar Thapa, Casey Saenger, Northern Arizona University [Flagstaff], Australian National University (ANU), United States Geological Survey [Reston] (USGS), University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System, Spanish National Research Council [Madrid] (CSIC), School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences [Sydney] (BEES), University of New South Wales [Sydney] (UNSW), Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR), University of Bern, Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche [Trieste], Università degli studi di Trieste, University of Texas at Austin [Austin], Department of Earth and Space Sciences [Seattle], University of Washington [Seattle], Department of Earth Sciences [Oxford], University of Oxford [Oxford], Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Climate Change Institute (CCI), University of Maine, University of Northumbria at Newcastle [United Kingdom], Lund University [Lund], Centre Eau Terre Environnement - INRS (INRS-ETE), Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique [Québec] (INRS), Italian National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development [Frascati] (ENEA), Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Quaternary Geology, The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), Norwegian Polar Institute, Climate and Environmental Physics [Bern] (CEP), Physikalisches Institut [Bern], Universität Bern [Bern]-Universität Bern [Bern], University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Collège de France (CdF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona [Barcelona] (UAB), National Institute of Polar Research [Tokyo] (NiPR), British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, Abteilung Klinische Sozialmedizin, Berufs- und Umweltdermatologie, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), The University of Tokyo, Laboratoire de géographie physique : Environnements Quaternaires et Actuels (LGP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1), Aarhus University [Aarhus], Department of Chemistry, University of Florence (UNIFI), Biogéochimie-Traceurs-Paléoclimat (BTP), Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), University of the Ryukyus [Okinawa], Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), PAGES 2k, Università degli studi di Trieste = University of Trieste, University of Oxford, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Climate Change Institute [Orono] (CCI), Centre Eau Terre Environnement [Québec] (INRS - ETE), Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE)-Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Glaces et Continents, Climats et Isotopes Stables (GLACCIOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - 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CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - 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CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - 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P., Kaufman, D. S., Von Gunten, L., Wang, Junrong, Anchukaitis, K. J., Abram, N. J., Addison, J. A., Curran, M. A. J., Evans, M. N., Henley, B. J., Hao, Z., Martrat, B., Mcgregor, H. V., Neukom, R., Pederson, G. T., Stenni, B., Thirumalai, K., Werner, J. P., Xu, C., Divine, D. V., Dixon, B. C., Gergis, J., Mundo, I. A., Nakatsuka, T., Phipps, S. J., Routson, C. C., Steig, E. J., Tierney, J. E., Tyler, J. J., Allen, K. J., Bertler, N. A. N., Bjorklund, J., Chase, B. M., Chen, M. -T., Cook, E., De Jong, R., Delong, K. L., Dixon, D. A., Ekaykin, A. A., Ersek, V., Filipsson, H. L., Francus, P., Freund, M. B., Frezzotti, M., Gaire, N. P., Gajewski, K., Ge, Q., Goosse, H., Gornostaeva, A., Grosjean, M., Horiuchi, K., Hormes, A., Husum, K., Isaksson, E., Kandasamy, S., Kawamura, K., Kilbourne, K. H., Koc, N., Leduc, G., Linderholm, H. W., Lorrey, A. M., Mikhalenko, V., Mortyn, P. G., Motoyama, H., Moy, A. D., Mulvaney, R., Munz, P. M., Nash, D. J., Oerter, H., Opel, T., Orsi, A. J., Ovchinnikov, D. V., Porter, T. J., Roop, H. A., Saenger, C., Sano, M., Sauchyn, D., Saunders, K. M., Seidenkrantz, M. -S., Severi, M., Shao, X., Sicre, M. -A., Sigl, M., Sinclair, K., St George, S., St Jacques, J. -M., Thamban, M., Thapa, U. K., Thomas, E. R., Turney, C., Uemura, R., Viau, A. E., Vladimirova, D. O., Wahl, E. R., White, J. W. C., Yu, Z., Zinke, J., École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226, and UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate

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Data Descriptor, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Mathematics: 410::Statistics: 412, VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Matematikk: 410::Statistikk: 412, F800, computer.software_genre, Palaeoclimate, 01 natural sciences, Proxy (climate), CECI [CISM], calcification, data integration objective, Climate change, trace metal analysis, 910 Geography & travel, geography.geographical_feature_category, Database, G500, data acquisition system, temperature of environmental material, Computer Science Applications, [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology, Temperature reconstruction, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Tree ring, Geology, wood, Information Systems, Statistics and Probability, glacial ice, radiance, 010506 paleontology, observation design, Library and Information Sciences, archaeal metabolite, Education, time series design, stable isotope analysis, Dendrochronology, 550 Earth sciences & geology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, geography, Global temperature, Glacier, 15. Life on land, Sea surface temperature, sediment, 13. Climate action, North Atlantic oscillation, Oceanic basin, computer
Abstract

Reproducible climate reconstructions of the Common Era (1 CE to present) are key to placing industrial-era warming into the context of natural climatic variability. Here we present a community-sourced database of temperature-sensitive proxy records from the PAGES2k initiative. The database gathers 692 records from 648 locations, including all continental regions and major ocean basins. The records are from trees, ice, sediment, corals, speleothems, documentary evidence, and other archives. They range in length from 50 to 2000 years, with a median of 547 years, while temporal resolution ranges from biweekly to centennial. Nearly half of the proxy time series are significantly correlated with HadCRUT4.2 surface temperature over the period 1850-2014. Global temperature composites show a remarkable degree of coherence between high- and low-resolution archives, with broadly similar patterns across archive types, terrestrial versus marine locations, and screening criteria. The database is suited to investigations of global and regional temperature variability over the Common Era, and is shared in the Linked Paleo Data (LiPD) format, including serializations in Matlab, R and Python., PAGES, a core project of Future Earth, is supported by the U.S. and Swiss National Science Foundations. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Some of this work was conducted as part of the North America 2k Working Group supported by the John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis, funded by the U.S. Geological Survey. B. Bauer, W. Gross, and E. Gille (NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information) are gratefully acknowledged for helping assemble the data citations and creating the NCEI versions of the PAGES 2k data records. We thank all the investigators whose commitment to data sharing enables the open science ethos embodied by this project.

Published
2017

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