LUTERBACHER, Juerg, J.P. WERNER, J.E. SMERDON, L. FERNANDEZ-DONADO, F.J. GONZALEZ-ROUCO, D. BARRIOPEDRO, F.C. LJUNGQVIST, Ulf BÜNTGEN, E. ZORITA, S. WAGNER, J. ESPER, D. MCCARROLL, A. TORETI, D. FRANK, J.H. JUNGCLAUS, M. BARRIENDOS, C. BERTOLIN, O. BOTHE, Rudolf BRÁZDIL, D. CAMUFFO, Petr DOBROVOLNÝ, M. GAGEN, E. GARICA-BUSTAMANTE, Q. GE, J.J. GOMEZ-NAVARRO, J. GUIOT, Z. HAO, G.C. HEGERL, K. HOLMGREN, V.V. KLIMENKO, J. MARTIN-CHIVELET, Christian PFISTER, N. ROBERTS, A. SCHINDLER, A. SCHURER, O. SOLOMINA, L. VON GUNTEN, E. WAHL, H. WANNER, O. WETTER, E. XOPLAKI, N. YUAN, D. ZANCHETTIN, H. ZHANG and C. ZEREFOS. European summer temperatures since Roman times. Environmental Research Letters. BRISTOL: IOP PUBLISHING LTD, 2016, vol. 11, No 2, p. "nestrankovano", 12 pp. ISSN 1748-9326. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024001.
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Original name European summer temperatures since Roman times
Authors LUTERBACHER, Juerg (756 Switzerland, guarantor), J.P. WERNER (276 Germany), J.E. SMERDON (840 United States of America), L. FERNANDEZ-DONADO (724 Spain), F.J. GONZALEZ-ROUCO (724 Spain), D. BARRIOPEDRO (724 Spain), F.C. LJUNGQVIST (752 Sweden), Ulf BÜNTGEN (756 Switzerland), E. ZORITA (724 Spain), S. WAGNER (276 Germany), J. ESPER (276 Germany), D. MCCARROLL (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), A. TORETI (380 Italy), D. FRANK (756 Switzerland), J.H. JUNGCLAUS (276 Germany), M. BARRIENDOS (724 Spain), C. BERTOLIN (380 Italy), O. BOTHE (276 Germany), Rudolf BRÁZDIL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), D. CAMUFFO (380 Italy), Petr DOBROVOLNÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), M. GAGEN (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), E. GARICA-BUSTAMANTE (724 Spain), Q. GE (156 China), J.J. GOMEZ-NAVARRO (724 Spain), J. GUIOT (250 France), Z. HAO (156 China), G.C. HEGERL (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), K. HOLMGREN (752 Sweden), V.V. KLIMENKO (643 Russian Federation), J. MARTIN-CHIVELET (724 Spain), Christian PFISTER (756 Switzerland), N. ROBERTS (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), A. SCHINDLER (756 Switzerland), A. SCHURER (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), O. SOLOMINA (643 Russian Federation), L. VON GUNTEN (756 Switzerland), E. WAHL (840 United States of America), H. WANNER (756 Switzerland), O. WETTER (756 Switzerland), E. XOPLAKI (300 Greece), N. YUAN (156 China), D. ZANCHETTIN (380 Italy), H. ZHANG (156 China) and C. ZEREFOS (300 Greece).
Edition Environmental Research Letters, BRISTOL, IOP PUBLISHING LTD, 2016, 1748-9326.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10500 1.5. Earth and related environmental sciences
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Impact factor Impact factor: 4.404
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/16:00087868
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024001
UT WoS 000371488300003
Keywords in English Common Era; heat waves; paleoclimatology; Bayesian hierarchical modelling; European summer temperature reconstruction; ensemble of climate model simulations; Medieval Climate Anomaly
Tags AKR, rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Ing. Andrea Mikešková, učo 137293. Changed: 5/4/2017 18:07.
Abstract
The spatial context is criticalwhen assessing present-day climate anomalies, attributing them to potential forcings and making statements regarding their frequency and severity in a long-term perspective. Recent international initiatives have expanded the number of high-quality proxy-records and developed new statistical reconstruction methods. These advances allow more rigorous regional past temperature reconstructions and, in turn, the possibility of evaluating climate models on policy-relevant, spatiotemporal scales. Here we provide a new proxy-based, annually-resolved, spatial reconstruction of the European summer (June-August) temperature fields back to 755 CE based on Bayesian hierarchical modelling (BHM), together with estimates of the European mean temperature variation since 138 BCE based on BHM and composite-plus-scaling (CPS). Our reconstructions compare well with independent instrumental and proxy-based temperature estimates, but suggest a larger amplitude in summer temperature variability than previously reported. Both CPS and BHM reconstructions indicate that the mean 20th century European summer temperature was not significantly different from some earlier centuries, including the 1st, 2nd, 8th and 10th centuries CE. The 1st century (in BHM also the 10th century) may even have been slightly warmer than the 20th century, but the difference is not statistically significant. Comparing each 50 yr period with the 1951-2000 period reveals a similar pattern. Recent summers, however, have been unusually warm in the context of the last two millennia and there are no 30 yr periods in either reconstruction that exceed the mean average European summer temperature of the last 3 decades (1986-2015 CE). A comparison with an ensemble of climate model simulations suggests that the reconstructed European summer temperature variability over the period 850-2000 CE reflects changes in both internal variability and external forcing on multi-decadal time-scales. For pan-European temperatures we find slightly better agreement between the reconstruction and the model simulations with high-end estimates for total solar irradiance. Temperature differences between the medieval period, the recent period and the Little Ice Age are larger in the reconstructions than the simulations. This may indicate inflated variability of the reconstructions, a lack of sensitivity and processes to changes in external forcing on the simulated European climate and/or an underestimation of internal variability on centennial and longer time scales.
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GA13-04291S, research and development projectName: Rekonstrukce hydro-klimatických podmínek jara a léta posledního milénia v České republice na základě dubové standardní chronologie
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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