Journal
CLIMATE DYNAMICS
Volume 49, Issue 5-6, Pages 2077-2091Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3433-8
Keywords
Eastern Tibetan Plateau; Drought variability; Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index; Point by point regression
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41475067, 41401047]
- Changjiang Scholars Program
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [lzujbky-2016-163]
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Tibetan Plateau is the headwater region of many major Asian rivers and very susceptive to climate change. Therefore, knowledge about climate and its spatiotemporal variability in this area is very important for ecological conservation, water resource management and social development. The aim of this study was to reconstruct and analyze the hydroclimate variation on eastern Tibetan Plateau (ETP) over many centuries and explore possible forcing factors on regional hydroclimate variability. We used 118 tree-ring chronologies from ETP to reconstruct the gridded May-July Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index for the ETP over the last millennium. The reconstruction was developed using an ensemble point-by-point reconstruction method, and a searching region method was used to locate the candidate tree-ring chronologies. The reconstructions have nicely captured the spatial and temporal features of the regional drought variation. The drought variations in south and north of 32.5A degrees N are notably different, which may be related to the divergence influence of North Atlantic Oscillation on the climate systems in the south and north, as well as differences in local climate. Spectral analysis and series comparison suggest that the drought variation in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau has been possibly influenced by solar activity on centurial and longer time scale.
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