The seasonal temperature conundrum for the Holocene
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.
Authors
- Haibin Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4532-8419)
- Wenchao Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4267-003X)
- Jun Cheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0168-1410)
- Shucheng Xie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5763-2928)
- Jiang Zhu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0908-5130)
- Yukun Zheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3389-9801)
- Hongyan Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6721-4439)
- Zhengyu Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4554-2666)
Institutions
- NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (US)
- Nanjing Normal University (CN)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (CN)
- Peking University (CN)
- China University of Geosciences (CN)
- China University of Geosciences (Beijing) (CN)
- Institute of Geology and Geophysics (CN)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- The Ohio State University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Science Advances
- Published
- 2025-04-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt8950
- Citations
- 8
- Primary Topic
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 10.41