CR Climate Research Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsSpecials CR 47:151-159 (2011) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/cr00999 Temperature reconstruction (1750–2008) from Dahurian larch tree-rings in an area subject to permafrost in Inner Mongolia, Northeast China Xianliang Zhang1,2, Xingyuan He1, Jinbao Li3, Nicole Davi3, Zhenju Chen1,*, Mingxing Cui1,2, Wei Chen1, Na Li1 1State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, PR China 2Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Yuquan Road, Beijing 10049, PR China 3Tree-Ring Laboratory, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964, USA *Corresponding author. Email: chenzhenjuf@163.com ABSTRACT: May–September temperatures were reconstructed for the past 250 yr based on Dahurian larch Larix gmelinii Rupr. growing in permafrost region of Northeast China. The reconstruction accounts for 39.3% of the actual temperature variance over the period 1958–2008. The reconstruction captured 3 relatively cold periods in 1847–1852, 1861–1866 and 1935–1941; 2 relatively warm periods in 1874–1879 and 2001–2008; and a persistent warming trend since the mid-20th century. The long-term changes in temperature documented here correspond well with regional temperature change from observational records, other global and regional proxy-based temperature reconstructions, and documented changes in regional permafrost. Thus, valuable information might be preserved in our reconstruction about local- to regional-scale climatic variation during the past 2.5 centuries. KEY WORDS: Tree-ring width · Temperature reconstruction · Dahurian larch · Permafrost change · Climatic variation Full text in pdf format NextCite this article as: Zhang X, He X, Li J, Davi N and others (2011) Temperature reconstruction (1750–2008) from Dahurian larch tree-rings in an area subject to permafrost in Inner Mongolia, Northeast China. Clim Res 47:151-159. https://doi.org/10.3354/cr00999 Export citation RSS - Facebook - Tweet - linkedIn Cited by Published in CR Vol. 47, No. 3. Online publication date: June 01, 2011 Print ISSN: 0936-577X; Online ISSN: 1616-1572 Copyright © 2011 Inter-Research.