China is drastically influenced by the Asian monsoon. Based on the relationship ( r = −.636, N = 62, p 18 O values from nine cores of Pinus tabulaeformis Carr. from Nanwutai and the Asia monsoon‐related June–August relative humidity (RH JJA ), we designed a transfer function reconstructing the RH JJA variation from 1760 to 2018 CE. Our RH JJA reconstruction captured some extreme climatic events that occurred in the past, such...

Tree‐ring densitometric studies conducted in semi‐arid regions are exceedingly rare. In this study, we evaluate a new maximum latewood density chronology from a collection of Picea purpurea trees growing in semi‐arid northwestern China for climatic reconstruction purposes. We find statistically significant correlations between annual maximum density variations and July–September maximum temperatures over the 1957–2014 calibrat...

The understanding of past millennium climate change is very important. Due to the lack of continuously annual resolution records, the temperature characteristics in the low‐latitude regions of East Asia (LLREA) during past several centuries are still unknown. Using tree‐ring width chronology from Taiwan, an island located in the western Pacific region and in southeastern China, February–October mean temperature from 1380 to 20...

A tree‐ring width chronology of Picea purpurea Mast from Mt. Shouyang in the source region of Weihe River (SWR), northwest China, was developed in this study. Correlation analysis showed that the precipitation from previous August to current July was the limiting climate factor of tree growth. Using a reliable and stable linear regression model, which explained 42.6% of the variance of the actual precipitation during the calib...