Ranking of tree-ring based temperature reconstructions of the past millennium
German Science Foundation [161/9-1]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [41325008]; [RNF 15-14-30011]
Old World Megadroughts and Pluvials During the Common Era
An atlas of megadroughts in Europe and in the Mediterranean Basin during the Common Era provides insights into climate variability.
Placing unprecedented recent fir growth in a European-wide and Holocene-long context
7 páginas.- Büntgen, U.
Climate signal age effects in boreal tree-rings: Lessons to be learned for paleoclimatic reconstructions
Abstract Age-related alternation in the sensitivity of tree-ring width (TRW) to climate variability has been reported for different forest species and environments. The resulting growth-climate response patterns are, however, often inconsistent and similar assessments using maximum latewood density (MXD) are still missing. Here, we analyze climate signal age effects (CSAE, age-related changes in the climate sensitivity of tree growth) in a newly aggregated network of 692 Pinus sylvestris L. TRW and MXD series from northern Fennoscandia. Although summer temperature sensitivity of TRW ( r All = 0.48) ranges below that of MXD ( r All = 0.76), it declines for both parameters as cambial age in…