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The associated NCEI study type is Historical. The data include parameters of climate reconstructions|historical with a geographic location of China, Eastern Asia. The time period coverage is from 480 to -20 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data. Records of past climate and environment from historical references and documentary evidence such as church records, harvest dates, and diaries. Parameter keywords describe what was measured in this dataset. 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URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords information custodian What: age; Material: null What: temperature index; Material: null theme Paleoenvironmental Standard Terms (PaST) Thesaurus NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/paleoclimatology/paleoenvironmental-standard-terms-thesaurus PaST Thesaurus information publisher Continent > Asia > Eastern Asia > China > East China (PAGES 2k Temp V2) > LATITUDE 30 > LONGITUDE 117.5 place DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce dataCentre Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords 2025 revision 22 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. 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Acta Meteorological Sinica, 2, 108-189, 10.11676/qxxb1990.022 information crossReference sciencePaper eng; USA geoscientificInformation Date Range: 1470 CE to 1970 CE; Date Range: 480 cal yr BP to -20 cal yr BP; 117.5 117.5 30 30 Study Coordinates 30 117.5 1470 1970 STUDY NOTES: Elevation estimated from GoogleEarth; rounded to 100 m ABSTRACT SUPPLIED BY ORIGINATOR: Winter temperature series of last 500 years in East China(25-35°N,115-120°E) was reconstructed using historical data about freezing of rivers and lakes,severe snowing and the relevant damages to agriculture caused by cold weather in the region.First,series of freeze-up and that of snowing were produced separately on a basis of ordinal scale.Then combination of the two series with different weights was made according to their relationship to winter temperature established by recent observations,and a cold winter index (Icw) was derived thereby.Finally,the winter temperature series was constructed at a resolution of 10 years on the basis of calibration of regression between the rece nt observation at Shanghai from 1873 to 1980 and the relevant Icw construeted.It is concluded that winter temperatures in the last 500 years are generally lower than the recent 30 year(1951-1980) mean.Three cold periods were detected,including periods of 1490-1519,1639-1690 and 1830-1889,where the 30 year running mean temperature reched below -1℃,the coldest period lasting from 1840 to 1869,with temperature lower that the recent 30 year mean by about 1.5℃.The late 16th and the whole 18th centuries are relative warm,however the temperatures of these periods are still lower than the recent years by 0.3-0.4℃.The warmest period of the lay 500 years lies in the early part of the present century from 20's to 40's,with temperature higher than recent 30 year mean by about 0.3-0.4℃,another warm period ranged from 1520 to 1549,with temperature higher than that of the recent years by about 0.2-0.3℃. 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