Pre-instrumental summer precipitation variability in northwestern Greece from a high-elevation Pinus heldreichii network

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.6992" target="_blank" >https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.6992</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.6992" target="_blank" >10.1002/joc.6992</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Pre-instrumental summer precipitation variability in northwestern Greece from a high-elevation Pinus heldreichii network

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The spatiotemporal variability of precipitation is of vital importance to Mediterranean ecology and economy, but pre-instrumental changes are not well understood. Here, we present a millennial-length June-July precipitation reconstruction derived from a network of 22 Pinus heldreichii high-elevation sites in the Pindus Mountains of northwestern Greece. Tree-ring width chronologies from these sites cohere exceptionally well over the past several hundred years (r(1467-2015) = 0.64) revealing coherence at inter-annual to centennial timescales across the network. The network mean calibrates significantly against instrumental June-July precipitation over the past 40 years (r(1976-2015) = 0.71), even though no high-elevation observational record is available representing the moist conditions at the treeline above 1,900 m a.s.l. For the final reconstruction, the instrumental target data are adjusted to provide realistic estimates of high-elevation summer rainfall back to 729 CE. The reconstruction contains substantially more low-frequency variability than other high-resolution hydroclimate records from the eastern Mediterranean including extended dry periods from 1,350 to 1,379 CE (39 +/- 4.5 mm) and 913 to 942 (40 +/- 8.4 mm), and moist periods from 862 to 891 (86 +/- 11 mm) and 1,522 to 1,551 (80 +/- 3.5 mm), relative to the long-term mean of 61 mm. The most recent 30-year period from 1986 to 2015 is characterized by above average June-July precipitation (73 +/- 2 mm). Low-frequency changes in summer precipitation are likely related to variations in the position and persistence of storm tracks steering local depressions and causing extensive rainfall (or lack thereof) in high-elevation environments of the Pindus Mountains.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Pre-instrumental summer precipitation variability in northwestern Greece from a high-elevation Pinus heldreichii network

Popis výsledku anglicky

The spatiotemporal variability of precipitation is of vital importance to Mediterranean ecology and economy, but pre-instrumental changes are not well understood. Here, we present a millennial-length June-July precipitation reconstruction derived from a network of 22 Pinus heldreichii high-elevation sites in the Pindus Mountains of northwestern Greece. Tree-ring width chronologies from these sites cohere exceptionally well over the past several hundred years (r(1467-2015) = 0.64) revealing coherence at inter-annual to centennial timescales across the network. The network mean calibrates significantly against instrumental June-July precipitation over the past 40 years (r(1976-2015) = 0.71), even though no high-elevation observational record is available representing the moist conditions at the treeline above 1,900 m a.s.l. For the final reconstruction, the instrumental target data are adjusted to provide realistic estimates of high-elevation summer rainfall back to 729 CE. The reconstruction contains substantially more low-frequency variability than other high-resolution hydroclimate records from the eastern Mediterranean including extended dry periods from 1,350 to 1,379 CE (39 +/- 4.5 mm) and 913 to 942 (40 +/- 8.4 mm), and moist periods from 862 to 891 (86 +/- 11 mm) and 1,522 to 1,551 (80 +/- 3.5 mm), relative to the long-term mean of 61 mm. The most recent 30-year period from 1986 to 2015 is characterized by above average June-July precipitation (73 +/- 2 mm). Low-frequency changes in summer precipitation are likely related to variations in the position and persistence of storm tracks steering local depressions and causing extensive rainfall (or lack thereof) in high-elevation environments of the Pindus Mountains.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10510 - Climatic research

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

International Journal of Climatology

ISSN

0899-8418

e-ISSN

1097-0088

Svazek periodika

41

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

2828-2839

Kód UT WoS článku

000606336500001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85099035835