Pan-alpine summer temperatures since 742 CE

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F25%3A00640769" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/25:00640769 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/25:00142595 RIV/62156489:43210/25:43927559

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1125786525001468" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1125786525001468</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2025.126432" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.dendro.2025.126432</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Pan-alpine summer temperatures since 742 CE

Original language description

Albeit labor-intensive, tree-ring maximum latewood density (MXD) has become a prime proxy to reconstruct inter-annual to multi-centennial climate variability. We here combine such data from five valleys in Austria, France and Switzerland to present a June-September temperature history for the European Alps reaching back to 742 CE. The pan-alpine record correlates at r1880-2023 = 0.89 with observational data and provides evidence for a prolonged Little Ice Age (LIA) from the 1250s to 1850s CE, during which summer temperatures were 0.59 degrees C cooler compared to the preceding Medieval Warm Period (MWP) from the 880s to 1240s CE. Temperatures rose by 3.65 degrees C from the coldest decade in the 1810s, which includes the 1816 CE post-Tambora year without a summer, to the warmest decade in the 2010s. The warmest summer in our reconstruction occurred in 2003 CE (+ 2.71 degrees C) and exceeds the warmest naturally forced summer in 970 CE (+ 2.19 degrees C) by more than 0.5 degrees C. This difference is non-significant, however, if we consider the increasing uncertainties back in time when fewer sites and trees contributed to the reconstruction. The pan-alpine record is the result of conducting MXD measurements over the past two decades in Swiss and German laboratories and sets a new standard in terms of explained variance and pre-instrumental temperature variability estimation in the European Alps.

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

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

CEP classification

—

OECD FORD branch

40102 - Forestry

Project

<a href="/en/project/EH22_008%2F0004635" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004635: AdAgriF - Advanced methods of greenhouse gases emission reduction and sequestration in agriculture and forest landscape for climate change mitigation</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Dendrochronologia

ISSN

1125-7865

e-ISSN

1612-0051

Volume of the periodical

94

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Dec.

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

126432

UT code for WoS article

001598777900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105019092255