Coupled Pacific Rim megadroughts contributed to the fall of the Ming Dynasty's capital in 1644 CE

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F24%3A00602734" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/24:00602734 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/24:00138944

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095927324002639" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095927324002639</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2024.04.029" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.scib.2024.04.029</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Coupled Pacific Rim megadroughts contributed to the fall of the Ming Dynasty's capital in 1644 CE

Original language description

Historical documents provide evidence for regional droughts preceding the political turmoil and fall of Beijing in 1644 CE, when more than 20 million people died in northern China during the late Ming famine period. However, the role climate and environmental changes may have played in this pivotal event in Chinese history remains unclear. Here, we provide tree-ring evidence of persistent megadroughts from 1576 to 1593 CE and from 1628 to 1644 CE in northern China, which coincided with exceptionally cold summers just before the fall of Beijing. Our analysis reveals that these regional hydroclimatic extremes are part of a series of megadroughts along the Pacific Rim, which not only impacted the ecology and society of monsoonal northern China, but likely also exacerbated external geopolitical and economic pressures. This finding is corroborated by last millennium reanalysis data and numerical climate model simulations revealing internally driven Pacific sea surface temperature variations and the predominance of decadal scale La Ni & ntildea-like conditions to be responsible for precipitation decreases over northern China, as well as extensive monsoon regions in the Americas. These teleconnection patterns provide a mechanistic explanation for reoccurring drought spells during the late Ming Dynasty and the environ- mental framework fostering the fall of Beijing in 1644 CE, and the subsequent demise of the Ming Dynasty. (c) 2024 Science China Press. Published by Elsevier B.V. and Science China Press. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10510 - Climatic research

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA23-08049S" target="_blank" >GA23-08049S: Central European HYDRoclimate from Oak stable isotopes over the past 8000 years – HYDRO8</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Science Bulletin

ISSN

2095-9273

e-ISSN

2095-9281

Volume of the periodical

69

Issue of the periodical within the volume

19

Country of publishing house

CN - CHINA

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

3106-3114

UT code for WoS article

001368343800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85190749384