Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

Weakening of annual temperature cycle over the Tibetan Plateau since the 1870s

  • Jianping Duan,
  • Jan Esper,
  • Ulf Büntgen,
  • Lun Li,
  • Elena Xoplaki,
  • Huan Zhang,
  • Lily Wang,
  • Yongjie Fang,
  • Jürg Luterbacher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14008
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Weakening of the Tibetan Plateau’s annual temperature cycle has been observed in recent decades, yet the long-term context remains unknown. Here, the authors reconstruct a 300-year temperature record from tree-ring width and maximum latewood density, which indicates the onset of weakening as early as the 1870s.