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A comparison of pre-millennium eruption (946 CE) and modern temperatures from tree rings in Changbai Mountain, Northeast Asia
Haibo Du
Key Laboratory of Geographical Processes and Ecological Security in
Changbai Mountains, Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
Michael C. Stambaugh
School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia,
Missouri, USA
Jesús Julio Camarero
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, IPE-CSIC, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain
Mai-He Li
Key Laboratory of Geographical Processes and Ecological Security in
Changbai Mountains, Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
WSL, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Dapao Yu
CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of
Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
Shengwei Zong
Key Laboratory of Geographical Processes and Ecological Security in
Changbai Mountains, Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
Hong S. He
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia,
Missouri, USA
Zhengfang Wu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Key Laboratory of Geographical Processes and Ecological Security in
Changbai Mountains, Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
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Short summary
We reconstruct, for the first time, high-resolution temperatures prior to the Millennium Eruption (946 CE) using a unique tree-ring proxy dataset in Changbai Mountain and compare them with modern temperatures. The temperatures during the last 1.5 centuries have stronger fluctuations, more frequent abruption, and a weaker periodicity of temperature variance compared to the pre-millennium temperatures. These recent changes correspond to long-term anthropogenic influences on regional climate.
We reconstruct, for the first time, high-resolution temperatures prior to the Millennium...
