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NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Reconstructed Asian Summer Precipitation (RAP) 1470-2013 CE

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This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Climate Reconstruction. The data include parameters of climate reconstructions|historical with a geographic location of Asia. The time period coverage is from 480 to -63 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.
  • Cite as: Shi, H.; Wang, B.; Cook, E.R.; Liu, J.; Liu, F. (2018-07-14): NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Reconstructed Asian Summer Precipitation (RAP) 1470-2013 CE. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. https://doi.org/10.25921/b0t9-km69. Accessed [date].
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Dataset Point of Contact NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
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Coverage Description Date Range: 1470 CE to 2013 CE; Date Range: 480 cal yr BP to -63 cal yr BP;
Time Period 1470 to 2013
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates
West: 61.25
East: 143.25
South: -8.75
North: 55.25
Spatial Coverage Map
General Documentation
Associated Resources
  • Asian summer precipitation over the past 544 years reconstructed by merging tree rings and historical documentary records
    • Associated Reference published 2018
      Hui Shi, Bin Wang, Edward R. Cook, Jian Liu, Fei Liu, 2018: Asian summer precipitation over the past 544 years reconstructed by merging tree rings and historical documentary records. Journal of Climate, , , 10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0003.1
Publication Dates
  • publication: 2018-07-14
Data Presentation Form Digital table - digital representation of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns
Dataset Progress Status Complete - production of the data has been completed
Data Update Frequency Data update frequency not available
Supplemental Information
STUDY NOTES: Asian summer (June to August) precipitation field reconstruction based on tree ring chronologies and historical documentary records from 1470 to 2013 CE
ABSTRACT SUPPLIED BY ORIGINATOR: Sparse long-term Asian monsoon (AM) records have limited our ability to understand and accurately model low-frequency AM variability. Here we present a gridded 544-year (from AD 1470 to 2013) Reconstructed Asian summer Precipitation (RAP) dataset by weighted merging two complementary proxies including 453 tree ring width chronologies and 71 historical documentary records. The RAP dataset provides substantially improved data quality compared with single proxy-type reconstructions. Skillful reconstructions are obtained in East and North China, northern India and Pakistan, Indochina Peninsula, mid-latitude Asia, Maritime Continent, and southern Japan. The RAP faithfully illustrates large-scale regional rainfall variability but has more uncertainties in representing small-scale local rainfall anomalies. The RAP reproduces realistic climatology and captures well the year-to-year rainfall variability averaged over monsoon Asia, arid central Asia, and entire Asia during the 20th century. It also shows a general agreement with other proxies (speleothems and ice cores) during the period of 1470-1920. The RAP captures the remarkably abrupt change during the 1600s recorded in the upwelling proxy over the Arabian Sea. Four major modes of variability of the Asian summer precipitation are identified with the long record of RAP, including a biennial El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) mode, a low-frequency ENSO mode, a central Pacific El Nino-like decadal mode, and an interdecadal mode. In sum, the RAP provides a valuable dataset for study of the large-scale Asian summer precipitation variability, especially the decadal-centennial variability that are caused by the external forcing and internal feedback processes within the Earth climate system.
Purpose Records of past temperature, precipitation, and other climate variables derived from paleoclimate proxies. Parameter keywords describe what was measured in this data set. Additional summary information can be found in the abstracts of papers listed in the data set citations.
Dataset Citation
  • Cite as: Shi, H.; Wang, B.; Cook, E.R.; Liu, J.; Liu, F. (2018-07-14): NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Reconstructed Asian Summer Precipitation (RAP) 1470-2013 CE. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. https://doi.org/10.25921/b0t9-km69. Accessed [date].
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Cited Authors
  • Shi, H.
  • Wang, B.
  • Cook, E.R.
  • Liu, J.
  • Liu, F.
Originators
  • Shi, H.
  • Wang, B.
  • Cook, E.R.
  • Liu, J.
  • Liu, F.
Publishers
  • NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Theme keywords Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
  • Earth Science > Climate Indicators > Paleoclimate Indicators > Paleoclimate Reconstructions
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
  • earth science > paleoclimate > climate reconstructions|historical
  • earth science > paleoclimate > climate reconstructions|historical
  • earth science > paleoclimate > climate reconstructions|historical
  • earth science > paleoclimate > climate reconstructions|historical
  • earth science > paleoclimate > reconstructions > precipitation
  • Precipitation Reconstruction
Paleoenvironmental Standard Terms (PaST) Thesaurus
  • What: age; Material: null
  • What: precipitation; Material: null
  • What: longitude; Material: null
  • What: latitude; Material: null
Data Center keywords Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords
  • DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Place keywords
  • Continent > Asia > AsiaShi2017RAP > LATITUDE > LONGITUDE
Use Constraints
  • Cite as: Shi, H.; Wang, B.; Cook, E.R.; Liu, J.; Liu, F. (2018-07-14): NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Reconstructed Asian Summer Precipitation (RAP) 1470-2013 CE. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. https://doi.org/10.25921/b0t9-km69. Accessed [date].
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