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Differing pre-industrial cooling trends between tree rings and lower-resolution temperature proxies
Lara Klippel
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Scott St. George
Department of Geography, Environment and Society, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Ulf Büntgen
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape
(WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
(CzechGlobe), 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, u 613
00 Brno, Czech Republic
Paul J. Krusic
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm,
Sweden
Navarino Environmental Observatory, Messinia, Greece
Jan Esper
Department of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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Short summary
The PAGES2k multiproxy database offers a new and unique opportunity to study the lack of long-term cooling trends in tree-ring data, which can be expected in Northern Hemisphere summers, particularly in the high latitudes, due to orbitally driven changes in solar irradiance. Tests of different influencing factors reveal that preserving millennial-scale cooling trends related to orbital forcing is not feasible in most tree-ring datasets.
The PAGES2k multiproxy database offers a new and unique opportunity to study the lack of...
