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Pinus resinosa Tree-Ring Latewood Response to Daily-Scale Precipitation Variability at Lake Itasca, Minnesota

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FRONTIERS IN WATER
卷 3, 期 -, 页码 -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/frwa.2021.801265

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daily observations; dendroclimatology; warm season hydroclimate; red pine; bimodal precipitation; latewood width; Itasca State Park

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Analyzing daily climate observations and tree-ring data in the Great Lakes region provides new insights into understanding climate change. This study found a strong correlation between Pinus resinosa latewood width and warm-season precipitation, with a diminishing relationship in recent decades.
Analysis of daily scale climate observations alongside sub-annual tree-ring data offers new potential for contextualizing climate change in the Great Lakes region. This pilot study combined daily observations from a high-quality station record with a co-located chronology of Pinus resinosa latewood width at Lake Itasca, Minnesota. We evaluate trends in observational data and use multiple methods to compare day-wise aggregated climate observations with tree rings over the eleven-decade common period. The Itasca record exhibited strong increases in warm-season precipitation, minimum temperature in all seasons, and lengthening of the freeze-free season. Correlation analyses verified a strong, multi-month warm-season precipitation response in Pinus resinosa latewood width. Distinct from previous work, daily data analyses were used to fingerprint an ~2-week period starting in late July when rainfall variability was historically a major control on interannual tree growth. Climatologically, the timing of this subseasonal critical climate period corresponds with a relative minimum in mean midsummer precipitation. Since the 1980s, the latewood correlation with midsummer rainfall has vanished, and the seasonal-scale rainfall response diminished considerably. This result, new for Pinus resinosa in Minnesota, is consistent with studies showing a declining relationship between tree growth and drought in the Midwest United States. Further attribution analyses emphasizing daily-scale phenomena are needed to elucidate mechanisms responsible for the tree-growth response to variability, change, and extremes in climate throughout the Great Lakes region, where the biophysical and socioeconomic impacts of climate change are multifaceted issues of increasing urgency.

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