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Quantitative Holocene climatic reconstructions for the lower Yangtze region of China

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Quantitative proxy-based and high-resolution palaeoclimatic datasets are scarce for the lower reaches of the Yangtze River (LYR) basin. This region is in a transitional vegetation zone which is climatologically sensitive; and as a birthplace for prehistorical civilization in China, it is important to understand how palaeoclimatic dynamics played a role in affecting cultural development in the region. We present a pollen-based and regionally-averaged Holocene climatic twin-dataset for mean total annual precipitation (PANN) and mean annual temperature (TANN) covering the last 10,000 years for the LYR region. This is based on the technique of weighted averaging-partial least squares regression to establish robust calibration models for obtaining reliable climatic inferences. The pollen-based reconstructions generally show an early Holocene climatic optimum with both abundant monsoonal rainfall and warm thermal conditions, and a declining pattern of both PANN and TANN values in the middle to late Holocene. The main driving forces behind the Holocene climatic changes in the LYR area are likely summer solar insolation associated with tropical or subtropical macro-scale climatic circulations such as the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), Western Pacific Subtropical High (WPSH), and El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Regional multi-proxy comparisons indicate that the Holocene variations in precipitation and temperature for the LYR region display an in-phase relationship with other related proxy records from southern monsoonal China and the Indian monsoon-influenced regions, but are inconsistent with the Holocene moisture or temperature records from northern monsoonal China and the westerly-dominated region in northwestern China. Overall, our comprehensive palaeoclimatic dataset and models may be significant tools for understanding the Holocene Asian monsoonal evolution and for anticipating its future dynamics in eastern Asia.

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This work was financially funded by projects from the State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology in the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y652001589), the West Light Foundation of The Chinese Academy of Sciences (XAB2016B01), the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC 41522305 and 41403018), other projects from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (QYZDB-SSW-DQC001 and 132B61KYSB20160003), and Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology of China (QNLM2016ORP0202).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, 710075, China

    Jianyong Li, John Dodson, Hong Yan & Fengyan Lu

  2. School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2033, Australia

    John Dodson

  3. Key Laboratory of Economic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China

    Weiming Wang

  4. Geography Department, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK

    James B. Innes

  5. Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, China

    Yongqiang Zong

  6. Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangzhou, 510070, China

    Yongqiang Zong

  7. School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China

    Xiaojian Zhang

  8. Institute of Nihewan Archaeology, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, 050024, China

    Qinghai Xu

  9. College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, 321004, China

    Jian Ni

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Li, J., Dodson, J., Yan, H. et al. Quantitative Holocene climatic reconstructions for the lower Yangtze region of China. Clim Dyn 50, 1101–1113 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-017-3664-3

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