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Climatic significance of stable carbon isotope in tree rings of Abies spectabibis in southeastern Tibet

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The annually cross-dated stable carbon isotope of tree-ring α-cellulose of Abies spectabibis collected from the southeastern Tibetan Plateau is used to examine its relationship with climatic parameters. The residual △13C series in treerings is constructed after removing the effects of age trend and rising CO2. We found a close relationship between △13C in tree rings and the relative humidity of September-November of the previous year measured at the nearby Nyingchi Meteorological Station, albeit a strong "lagged effect". Thus we developed a transfer function to reconstruct the autumn relative humidity for the Nyingchi region, which explained 37.9% of the total variance (p < 0.001). Our results suggest a high frequency and moderate amplitude variance of the relative humidity before 1800, and the variance reversed afterwards.

Abies spectabibistree ringsstable carbon isotopeclimatic reconstruction

LIU Xiaohong、Qin Dahe、Shao Xuemei、CHEN Tuo、REN Jiawen

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Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Nature Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

中国科学院资助项目中国科学院寒区旱区环境与工程研究所资助项目

KZCX1-10-09,KZCX2-SW-118,KZCX1-10-02210506

2003

科学通报(英文版)
中国科学院

科学通报(英文版)

SCI
ISSN:1001-6538
年,卷(期):2003.48(18)
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