The seasonal temperature conundrum for the Holocene
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Temperature is the key variable in the study of climate changes in the past and future. Most previous studies on past temperature reconstructions, however, have focused on the mean annual temperature (MAT). Here, focusing on the seasonal temperature reconstructions in the Northern Hemisphere extratropics during the Holocene period, we show that the change in seasonal cycle of temperature reconstructions is severely underestimated in comparison with the expectation from present observations. Our study highlights the current uncertainty in seasonal temperature reconstructions in the Holocene, with an implication that the MAT simulation in current climate models may not be much biased.
Source: Science Advances
Institutions: Nanjing Normal University, The Ohio State University, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Peking University, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, China University of Geosciences, State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology
Language: English
Subfield: Atmospheric Science
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $4,500
OpenAlex ID: W4409784234