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ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 1, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2515-7620/ab4cd6
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summer precipitation; climatology; dendroclimatology; southeastern United States; longleaf pine
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We examined short- and long-term changes in precipitation event types using instrumental (1940-2018) and tree-ring (1790-2018) data from North Carolina, USA. We documented the amount and frequency of summer (July-September) precipitation events using daily weather station data. Stationary front precipitation (SFP) represented 71% of total summer rainfall and SFP and convective uplift combined (i.e., quasi-stationary precipitation, QSP) represented 87%. SFP (r = 0.52, p < 0.01) and QSP (r = 0.61, p < 0.01) precipitation reconstructions from a montane longleaf pine latewood chronology both recorded significant declines during 1940-2018, matching the instrumental record. Conversely, no significant change in either SFP or QSP occured during the full reconstruction indicating the instrumental decline was unmatched throughout 1790-1939. Our method demonstrates that variations in latewood growth can be attributed to specific precipitation event types and that the relative contribution of each event type can be quantified over a multi-century period.
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