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A bi-proxy reconstruction of Fontainebleau (France) growing season temperature from A.D. 1596 to 2000
N. Etien
nathalie.etien@cea.fr
V. Daux
V. Masson-Delmotte
M. Stievenard
V. Bernard
S. Durost
M. T. Guillemin
O. Mestre
M. Pierre
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (IPSL, UMR CEA-CNRS 1572) L'Orme des Merisiers, Bâtiment 701, CEA Saclay, 91 191 Gif-Sur-Yvette cedex, France
Dendrochronologie et Archéo-dendrologie (UMR 6566 "Civilisations Atlantiques et Archéosciences") Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, Bât 24/25, 35042 Rennes, France
Laboratoire de Chrono-Ecologie (UMR 6565), Université de Franche-Comté, UFR des Sciences, La Bouloie, 16 route de Gray, 25030 Besançon, France
Météo France, Direction de la climatologie, 42 avenue Gaspard-Coriolis, 31057 Toulouse Cedex, France
In this paper, we develop a new methodology to estimate past changes of
growing season temperature at Fontainebleau (northern France). Northern
France temperature fluctuations have been documented by homogenised
instrumental temperature records (at most 140 year long) and by grape
harvest dates (GHD) series, incorporated in some of the European-scale
temperature reconstructions. We have produced here three new proxy records:
δ<sup>18</sup>O and δ<sup>13</sup>C of latewood cellulose of living
trees and timbers from Fontainebleau Forest and Castle, together with ring
widths of the same samples. δ<sup>13</sup>C data appear to be influenced
by tree and age effects; ring widths are not controlled by a single climate
parameter. By contrast, δ<sup>18</sup>O and Burgundy GHD series exhibit
strong links with Fontainebleau growing season maximum temperature. Each of
these records can also be influenced by other factors such as vine growing
practices, local insolation, or moisture availability. In order to reduce
the influence of these potential biases, we have used a linear combination
of the two records to reconstruct inter-annual fluctuations of Fontainebleau
growing season temperature from 1596 to 2000. Over the instrumental period,
the reconstruction is well correlated with the temperature data
(<i>R</i><sup>2</sup>=0.60).
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This reconstruction is associated with an uncertainty of ~1.1°C
(1.5 standard deviation), and is expected to provide a reference series for
the variability of growing season maximum temperature in Western Europe.
Spectral analyses conducted on the reconstruction clearly evidence (i) the
interest of combining the two proxy records in order to improve the power
spectrum of the reconstructed versus observed temperature, (ii) changes in
the spectral properties over the time, with varying weights of periodicities
ranging between ~6 and ~25 years. Available reconstructions of
regional growing season temperature fluctuations get increasingly divergent
at the interannual or decadal scale prior to 1800. Our reconstruction
suggests a warm interval in the late 17th century, with the 1680s as
warm as the 1940s, followed by a prolonged cool period from the 1690s to the
1850s culminating in the 1770s. The persistency of the late 20th
century warming trend appears unprecedented.
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