The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions

Tree-ring chronologies underpin the majority of annually-resolved reconstructions of Common Era climate. However, they are derived using different datasets and techniques, the ramifications of which have hitherto been little explored. Here, we report the results of a double-blind experiment that yielded 15 Northern Hemisphere summer temperature reconstructions from a common network of regional tree-ring width datasets. Taken together as an ensemble, the Common Era reconstruction mean correlates with instrumental temperatures from 1794–2016 CE at 0.79 (p < 0.001), reveals summer cooling in the years following large volcanic eruptions, and exhibits strong warming since the 1980s. Differing in their mean, variance, amplitude, sensitivity, and persistence, the ensemble members demonstrate the influence of subjectivity in the reconstruction process. We therefore recommend the routine use of ensemble reconstruction approaches to provide a moreconsensual picture of past climate variability.

Allen, Kathy (author)
Anchukaitis, Kevin J. (author)
Arseneault, Dominique (author)
Boucher, Étienne (author)
Bräuning, Achim (author)
Chatterjee, Snigdhansu (author)
Cherubini, Paolo (author)
Churakova (Sidorova), Olga V. (author)
Corona, Christophe (author)
Gennaretti, Fabio (author)
Grießinger, Jussi (author)
Guillet, Sebastian (author)
Guiot, Joel (author)
Gunnarson, BjörnStockholms universitet,Institutionen för naturgeografi(Swepub:su)bgunn (author)
Helama, Samuli (author)
Hochreuther, Philipp (author)
Hughes, Malcolm K. (author)
Huybers, Peter (author)
Kirdyanov, Alexander V. (author)
Krusic, Paul J.Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för naturgeografi,University of Cambridge, UK(Swepub:su)pakru (author)
Ludescher, Josef (author)
Meier, Wolfgang J.H. (author)
Myglan, Vladimir S. (author)
Nicolussi, Kurt (author)
Oppenheimer, Clive (author)
Reinig, Frederick (author)
Salzer, Matthew W. (author)
Seftigen, Kristina,1985Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för geovetenskaper,Department of Earth Sciences(Swepub:gu)xsefkr (author)
Stine, Alexander R. (author)
Stoffel, Markus (author)
St. George, Scott (author)
Tejedor, Ernesto (author)
Trevino, Aleyda (author)
Trouet, Valerie (author)
Wang, Jianglin (author)
Wilson, Rob (author)
Yang, Bao (author)
Xu, Guobao (author)
Esper, Jan (author)
Stockholms universitetInstitutionen för naturgeografi (creator_code:org_t)

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