Jianping Duan

TL;DR: A new spatially resolved warm-season (May-September) temperature reconstruction for the period 1–2000 CE using 59 multiproxy records from a wide range of East Asian regions shows good agreement and an important role of internal variability and external forcing on multi-decadal time-scales.

TL;DR: In this paper, a tree-ring network of pine trees (Pinus massoniana) from five sampling sites over a large spatial scale (25 −29°N, 111 −115°E) in southeastern China was used to reconstruct the winter-spring (January −April) temperature.

TL;DR: In this paper, X-ray densitometry of Balfour spruce was used to reconstruct the August-September mean temperature for the period 1695-2000 A.D., and it explained the 63.5% of the total temperature variance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used tree ring maximum late wood density (MXD) data from Balfour spruce in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau (TP) to investigate the relationship between long-term variation in temperature and solar activity.

TL;DR: The results imply that the influence of anthropogenic forcing on temperature seasonality might have started in the late nineteenth century, and that future human influence may further contribute to a weakening of the annual temperature cycle, with subsequent effects on ecosystem functioning and productivity.