The twentieth century was the wettest period in northern Pakistan over the past millennium

Kerstin S. Treydte (), Gerhard H. Schleser, Gerhard Helle, David C. Frank, Matthias Winiger, Gerald H. Haug and Jan Esper
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Kerstin S. Treydte: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Gerhard H. Schleser: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, ICG-V
Gerhard Helle: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, ICG-V
David C. Frank: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Matthias Winiger: University of Bonn
Gerald H. Haug: GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
Jan Esper: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL

Nature, 2006, vol. 440, issue 7088, 1179-1182

Abstract: A long rain A warming climate could significantly alter the global rate and distribution of rainfall, and arguably it is changing rainfall, rather than temperature, that would have the greater direct impact on human well-being and on ecosystems. An annually resolved oxygen isotope record from tree-rings has been used to produce a millennial-scale reconstruction of precipitation variability in the mountains of northern Pakistan. The data reveal an increase in precipitation during the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, producing the wettest conditions seen in the past thousand years. A comparison with other climate reconstructions points to large-scale intensification of the hydrological cycle coincident with the onset of industrialization and global warming. Its unprecedented amplitude argues for a human contribution to the change.

Date: 2006
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