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JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH  2015, Vol. 35 Issue (1): 106-112    DOI: 10.7522/j.issn.1000-694X.2014.00198
    
Summer Precipitation Variation in the Southern Slope of the Altay Mountains Recorded by Tree-ring δ13C
Zhang Ruibo, Shang Huaming, Yuan Yujiang, Wei Wenshou, Zhang Tongwen, Chen Feng, Yu Shulong, Fan Ziang, Qin Li
Key Laboratory of Tree-ring Physical and Chemical Research of China Meteorological Administration/Key Laboratory of Tree Ring Ecology of Xinjiang Uigur Autonomous Region, Institute of Desert Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Urumqi 830002, China
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Abstract  

In this paper, we developed 3 tree-ring δ13C chronologies from eastern, central and western on south slope of the Altay Mountains based on standard dendrochronology methods and stable carbon isotope research process. Correlation analysis combined with precipitation data from 7 meteorological stations in the Altay Mountains showed that, the tree-ring δ13C series response to summer precipitation on south slope of the Altay Mountains, the highest single correlation index can reach to -0.682 (p<0.0001). The summer precipitation was constructed with regression method. The reconstruction could go back to 1850 and has an adjusted r2 of 0.453 (1962-2008). The precipitation variability in the past 160 years was analyzed, it shown that the summer precipitation is above normal in the 1850-1871, then the climate have a long dryer period in 1872-1956, and after 1960s until today, it experienced a long wetter period with the climate warming and wetting in Xinjiang. There have a good correlation between summer precipitation and Arctic Oscillation (AO), and Arctic Oscillation may have a greater impact on precipitation variability on south slope of the Altay Mountains. The summer precipitation have the quasi-periodic variations of 11 a (95%), 2.7 a (95%), 2.4 a (95%), 2.1 a (99%) and 2.0 a (99%) .

Key words:  Altay Mountains      tree-ring      precipitation      δ13C      climate change     
Received:  13 October 2014      Published:  20 January 2015
ZTFLH:  P467  

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Zhang Ruibo, Shang Huaming, Yuan Yujiang, Wei Wenshou, Zhang Tongwen, Chen Feng, Yu Shulong, Fan Ziang, Qin Li. Summer Precipitation Variation in the Southern Slope of the Altay Mountains Recorded by Tree-ring δ13C. JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH, 2015, 35(1): 106-112.

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