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

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

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216224:14310/24:00138944

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Historical documents provide evidence for regional droughts preceding the political turmoil and fall of Beijing in 1644 CE, when more than 20 million people died in northern China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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10510 - Climatic research

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA23-08049S" target="_blank" >GA23-08049S: Středoevropské HYDRoklima na základě stabilních izotopů z dubových letokrůhů za posledních 8000 let – HYDRO8</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Science Bulletin

ISSN

2095-9273

e-ISSN

2095-9281

Svazek periodika

69

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

19

Stát vydavatele periodika

CN - Čínská lidová republika

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

3106-3114

Kód UT WoS článku

001368343800001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85190749384