Contrasting tree‐ring growth response of picea abies to climate variability in western and eastern estonia

Abstract. In this work, the Sun–Earth–climate relationship is studied using tree growth rings of Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) O. Kuntze collected in the city of Passo Fundo, located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil. These samples were previously studied by Rigozo et al. (2008); however, their main interest was to search for the solar periodicities in the tree-ring width mean time series without interpreting the rest of the periodicities found. The question arises as to what are the drivers related to those periodicities. For this reason, the classical method of spectral analysis by iterative regression and wavelet methods are applied to find periodicities and trends present in each tree-ring growth, in Southern Oscillation Index (SOI), and in annual mean temperature anomaly between the 24 and 44∘ S. In order to address the aforementioned question, this paper discusses the correlation between the growth rate of the tree rings with temperature and SOI. In each tree-ring growth series, periods between 2 and 7 years were found, possibly related to the El Niño/La Niña phenomena, and a ∼ 23-year period was found, which may be related to temperature variation. These novel results might represent the tree-ring growth response to local climate conditions during its lifetime, and to nonlinear coupling between the Sun and the local climate variability responsible to the regional climate variations. Keywords. History of geophysics (solar–planetary relationships) – meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (climatology; palaeoclimatology)

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Tree-ring-based spring precipitation reconstruction in the Sikhote-Alin' Mountain range

Climate of the Past ◽

10.5194/cp-17-951-2021 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 951-967

Author(s):

Olga Ukhvatkina ◽

Alexander Omelko ◽

Dmitriy Kislov ◽

Alexander Zhmerenetsky ◽

Tatyana Epifanova ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Variability ◽

Tree Ring ◽

Southern Oscillation ◽

Russian Far East ◽

Pinus Koraiensis ◽

Mountain Range ◽

Korean Pine ◽

Sikhote Alin ◽

The Impact ◽

Standard Tree

Abstract. Climate reconstructions provide important insight into past climate variability and help us to understand the large-scale climate drivers and impact of climate change. However, our knowledge about long-term year-to-year climate variability is still limited due to the lack of high-resolution reconstructions. Here, we present the first precipitation reconstructions based on tree rings from Pinus koraiensis (Korean pine) from three sites placed along a latitudinal (330 km) gradient in the Sikhote-Alin' mountains in the Russian Far East. The tree-ring width chronologies were built using standard tree-ring procedures. We reconstructed the April–June precipitation for the southern Sikhote-Alin' (SSA), March–June precipitation for the central Sikhote-Alin' (CSA) and March–July precipitation for the northwestern Sikhote-Alin' (NSA) over the years 1602 to 2013, 1804 to 2009 and 1858 to 2013, respectively. We found that an important limiting factor for Korean pine growth was precipitation within the period when the air current coming from the continent during the cold period is replaced with the impact of the wet ocean air current. We identified that common wet years for SSA, CSA and NSA occurred in 1805, 1853, 1877, 1903, 1906, 1927, 1983 and 2009 and common dry years occurred in 1821, 1869, 1919, 1949 and 2003. Our reconstructions have 3-, 15- and 60-year periods, which suggests the influence of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation on the region's climate and relevant processes. Despite the impact of various global processes, the main contribution to precipitation formation in the study area is still made by the Pacific Ocean, which determines their amount and periodicity.

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A 434-year tree-ring chronology of spruce (Picea abies) with indications of Estonian precipitation

Dendrobiology ◽

10.12657/denbio.073.015 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 73 ◽

pp. 145-152 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Alar Läänelaid ◽

Samuli Helama ◽

Dieter Eckstein

Keyword(s):

Picea Abies ◽

Tree Ring ◽

Tree Ring Chronology

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Oxygen and carbon isotopic record of climatic variability in tree ring cellulose (Picea abies): An example from central Switzerland (1913-1995)

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ◽

10.1029/1998jd200040 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 103 (D24) ◽

pp. 31625-31636 ◽

Cited By ~ 94

Author(s):

W. T. Anderson ◽

S. M. Bernasconi ◽

J. A. McKenzie ◽

M. Saurer

Keyword(s):

Picea Abies ◽

Tree Ring ◽

Climatic Variability ◽

Carbon Isotopic ◽

Central Switzerland ◽

Tree Ring Cellulose

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A 200-Year Perspective of Climate Variability and the Response of White Spruce in Interior Alaska

Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response in Long-Term Ecological Research Sites ◽

10.1093/oso/9780195150599.003.0024 ◽

2003 ◽

Author(s):

Glenn Patrick Juday ◽

Valerie Barber

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

North America ◽

Climate Variability ◽

Tree Ring ◽

Tree Growth ◽

White Spruce ◽

Boreal Region ◽

The North ◽

Interior Alaska ◽

Summer Temperatures

The two most important life functions that organisms carry out to persist in the environment are reproduction and growth. In this chapter we examine the role of climate and climate variability as controlling factors in the growth of one of the most important and productive of the North American boreal forest tree species, white spruce (Picea glauca [Moench] Voss). Because the relationship between climate and tree growth is so close, tree-ring properties have been used successfully for many years as a proxy to reconstruct past climates. Our recent reconstruction of nineteenth- century summer temperatures at Fairbanks based on white spruce tree-ring characteristics (Barber et al. in press) reveals a fundamental pattern of quasi-decadal climate variability. The values in this reconstruction of nineteenth-century Fairbanks summer temperatures are surprisingly warm compared to values in much of the published paleoclimatic literature for boreal North America. In this chapter we compare our temperature reconstructions with ring-width records in northern and south-central Alaska to see whether tree-growth signals in the nineteenth century in those regions are consistent with tree-ring characteristics in and near Bonanza Creek (BNZ) LTER (25 km southwest of Fairbanks) that suggest warm temperatures during the mid-nineteenth century. We also present a conceptual model of key limiting events in white spruce reproduction and compare it to a 39-year record of seed fall at BNZ. Finally, we derive a radial growth pattern index from white spruce at nine stands across Interior Alaska that matches recent major seed crop events in the BNZ monitoring period, and we identify dates after 1800 when major seed crops of white spruce, which are infrequent, may have been produced. The boreal region is characterized by a broad zone of forest with a continuous distribution across Eurasia and North America, amounting to about 17% of the earth’s land surface area (Bonan et al. 1992). The boreal region is often conceived of as a zone of relatively homogenous climate, but in fact a surprising diversity of climates are present. During the long days of summer, continental interior locations under persistent high-pressure systems experience hot weather that can promote extensive forest fires frequently exceeding 100 kilohectares (K ha). Summer daily maximum temperatures are cooled to a considerable degree in maritime portions of the boreal region affected by air masses that originate over the North Atlantic, North Pacific, or Arctic Oceans.

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Tree-ring estimates of Pacific decadal climate variability

Climate Dynamics ◽

10.1007/s003820100177 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 18 (3-4) ◽

pp. 219-224 ◽

Cited By ~ 205

Author(s):

R. D'Arrigo ◽

R. Villalba ◽

G. Wiles

Keyword(s):

Climate Variability ◽

Tree Ring ◽

Decadal Climate Variability ◽

Decadal Climate

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Multiproxy records of climate variability for Kamchatka for the past 400 years

Climate of the Past ◽

10.5194/cp-3-119-2007 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 119-128 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

O. Solomina ◽

G. Wiles ◽

T. Shiraiwa ◽

R. D'Arrigo

Keyword(s):

Climate Variability ◽

Tree Ring ◽

Ice Core ◽

Ring Width ◽

Summer Temperature ◽

Positive Anomaly ◽

Temperature Decrease ◽

Positive Mass ◽

The Past ◽

Tree Ring Data

Abstract. Tree ring, ice core and glacial geologic histories for the past several centuries offer an opportunity to characterize climate variability and to identify the key climate parameters forcing glacier expansion in Kamchatka over the past 400 years. A newly developed larch ring-width chronology (AD 1632–2004) is presented that is sensitive to past summer temperature variability. Individual low growth years in the larch record are associated with several known and proposed volcanic events from the Northern Hemisphere. The comparison of ring width minima and those of Melt Feature Index of Ushkovsky ice core helps confirm a 1–3 year dating accuracy~for this ice core series over the late 18th to 20th centuries. Decadal variations of low summer temperatures (tree-ring record) and high annual precipitation (ice core record) are broadly consistent with intervals of positive mass balances measured and estimated at several glaciers in 20th century, and with moraine building. According to the tree-ring data the 1860s–1880s were the longest coldest interval in the last 350 years. The latest part of this period (1880s) coincided with the positive anomaly in accumulation. This coincidence led to a positive mass balance, which is most likely responsible for glacier advances and moraine deposition of the end of 19th-early 20th centuries. As well as in some other high latitude regions (Spitsbergen, Polar Urals, Franz Jozef Land etc.) in Kamchatka these advances marked the last millennium glacial maximum. In full agreement with subsequent summer warming trend, inferred both from instrumental and tree ring data, glacier advances since 1880s have been less extensive. The late 18th century glacier expansion coincides with the inferred summer temperature decrease recorded by the ring width chronology. However, both the advance and the summer temperature decrease were less prominent that in the end of 19th century. Comparisons of the glacier history in Kamchatka with records from Alaska and the Canadian Rockies suggests broadly consistent intervals of glacier expansion and inferred summer cooling during solar irradiance minima.

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