Collaborative Research: Historical Climatic Reconstructions for the Southeastern United States

本提案旨在为一项研究提供支持，该研究利用可追溯到小冰河期（约1750-1870年）后期的仪器和历史数据，为美国东南部开发高分辨率的古气候记录。丰富的文献资料将有助于我们对气候变率的认识：1)重建东南气候的年际至年代际变率，并将结果与生长季节条件的树木气候重建相结合；2)描述与ENSO和NAO等现象的遥相关的气候反应；3)评估由北大西洋和更大地区的区域变化引起的年代际气候变率；4)重建登陆飓风频率，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.