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

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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)

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.

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  • Kerstin S. Treydte & Gerhard H. Schleser & Gerhard Helle & David C. Frank & Matthias Winiger & Gerald H. Haug & Jan Esper, 2006. "The twentieth century was the wettest period in northern Pakistan over the past millennium," Nature, Nature, vol. 440(7088), pages 1179-1182, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:440:y:2006:i:7088:d:10.1038_nature04743
    DOI: 10.1038/nature04743
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