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Research article
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11 Nov 2020
Research article |
| 11 Nov 2020
A 2600-year summer climate reconstruction in central Japan by integrating tree-ring stable oxygen and hydrogen isotopes
Takeshi Nakatsuka
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto 603-8047, Japan
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya
464-8601, Japan
Masaki Sano
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto 603-8047, Japan
Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Tokorozawa 359-1192,
Japan
Zhen Li
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto 603-8047, Japan
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya
464-8601, Japan
Chenxi Xu
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto 603-8047, Japan
Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of
Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
Akane Tsushima
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto 603-8047, Japan
Yuki Shigeoka
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya
464-8601, Japan
Kenjiro Sho
Department of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Industrial
Management Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya 466-8555,
Japan
Keiko Ohnishi
Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
060-0819, Japan
Minoru Sakamoto
National Museum of Japanese History, Sakura 285-8502, Japan
Hiromasa Ozaki
National Museum of Japanese History, Sakura 285-8502, Japan
The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033,
Japan
Noboru Higami
Aichi Prefectural Center for Archaeological Operations, Yatomi
498-0017, Japan
Nanae Nakao
Research Center, Musashi University, Tokyo 176-8534, Japan
Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan
Misao Yokoyama
Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502,
Japan
Takumi Mitsutani
Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Nara
630-8577, Japan
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Short summary
In general, it is not easy to reconstruct past climate variations over a wide band of frequencies using a single proxy. Here, we propose a new method to reconstruct past summer climate seamlessly from annual to millennial timescales by integrating tree-ring cellulose oxygen and hydrogen isotope ratios. The result can be utilized to investigate various scales of climatological phenomena in the past and climate–society relationships in long human history.
In general, it is not easy to reconstruct past climate variations over a wide band of...
