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May–June precipitation reconstruction of southwestern anatolia, Turkey during the last 900 years from tree rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ramzi Touchan ,
Ünal Akkemik ,
Malcolm K. Hughes  and
Nesat Erkan
Ramzi Touchan*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210058, Tucson, AZ 85721-0058, USA
Ünal Akkemik
Affiliation:
University of Istanbul, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forest Botany, 80895 Bahçeköy-Istanbul, Turkey
Malcolm K. Hughes
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210058, Tucson, AZ 85721-0058, USA
Nesat Erkan
Affiliation:
Southwest Anatolia Forest Research Institute (SAFRI), POB: 264, Antalya, Turkey
*
*Corresponding author. Fax: +1 520 621 8229.E-mail address:rtouchan@ltrr.arizona.edu (R. Touchan).
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Abstract

A May–June precipitation reconstruction (AD 1097–2000) has been developed for southwestern Anatolia in Turkey, the longest reported to date in this region. The reconstruction was derived from a regional Juniperus excelsa chronology that was built from material sampled at four sites in the Antalya and Mersin Districts. The regional tree-ring chronology accounts for 51% of the variance of instrumentally observed May–June precipitation. The years AD 1518 to 1587 are the most humid period in the reconstruction, coinciding with a major shift in European climate. The driest 70-year period in the reconstruction is AD 1195 to 1264. The period AD 1591–1660 represents the third driest and was characterized by instability climatically, politically, and socially in Anatolia.

Keywords

Tree ringsChronologyReconstruction
Type
Short Paper
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Quaternary Research , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , September 2007 , pp. 196 - 202
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University of Washington

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