Collaborative Research: Historical Climatic Reconstructions for the Southeastern United States

这项提议寻求支持一项研究，以利用可追溯到小冰河时代(约1750-1870)后期的仪器和历史数据，开发美国东南部高分辨率的古气候记录。丰富的文献证据将用于通过以下方式提高我们对气候变异性的理解：1)重建东南气候的年际至年代际变率，并将其结果与生长季条件的树状气候学重建结合起来；2)描述与ENSO和NAO等现象的遥相关有关的气候反应；3)评估北大西洋及更大区域区域变化造成的年代际气候变率；4)重建登陆飓风的频率，并将时间变化与气候变化联系起来。

This proposal seeks support for a study to develop high-resolution paleoclimatic records for the southeastern United States from instrumental and historical data extending back to the latter stages of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1750-1870). The rich documentary evidence will be used to improve our understanding of climate variability by: 1) reconstructing interannual to decadal variability of Southeast climate and integrating the results with dendroclimatological reconstructions of growing season conditions; 2) describing climatic responses as they relate to teleconnections of phenomena such and ENSO and NAO; 3) assessing decadal climatic variability that results from regional changes over the North Atlantic and larger areas; and 4) reconstructing landfall hurricane frequencies and relating temporal variations to climatic change.