Unusual twentieth-century summer warmth in a 1,000-year temperature record from Siberia

Briffa, Keith R., Jones, Philip D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5032-5493, Schweingruber, Fritz H., Shiyatov, Stepan G. and Cook, Edward R. (1995) Unusual twentieth-century summer warmth in a 1,000-year temperature record from Siberia. Nature, 376 (6536). pp. 156-159. ISSN 0028-0836

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Abstract

In the current debate on the magnitude of modern-day climate change, there is a growing appreciation of the importance of long, high-resolution proxies of past climate1-3. Such records provide an indication of natural (pre-anthropogenic) climate variability, either singly at specific geographical locations or in combination on continental and perhaps even hemispheric scales4. There are, however, relatively few records that are well dated, of high resolution and of verifiable fidelity in terms of climate response, and conspicuously few that extend over a thousand years or more5. Here we report a tree-ring-based reconstruction of mean summer temperatures over the northern Urals since AD 914. This record shows that the mean temperature of the twentieth century (1901-90) is higher than during any similar period since AD 914.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climatic Research Unit
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (former - to 2017)
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climate, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (former - to 2017)
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Depositing User: Rosie Cullington
Date Deposited: 15 Jul 2011 14:06
Last Modified: 16 Jun 2023 23:55
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/33839
DOI: 10.1038/376156a0

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