Central Asia is one of the fastest warming regions on the planet. Over the past 15 years, summer
To date, there is only a small amount of long-term climate data on Central Asia that can help predict the future of the region.
A new study on the region's temperature has beenled by Nicole Davy, a senior scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. The authors used tree-ring analysis, which can be used to learn about temperature and precipitation patterns over the past hundred or even thousand years.
The authors initially studied the cores of tree rings,which were collected in 1998 and 2005. And to get more information, they used a new way to analyze trees. In the new method, scientists measure how well each ring reflects blue light. The denser the wood, the less blue it absorbs and, accordingly, the tree grew in colder conditions.
Based on this data, the team built a modelsummer temperatures in the region from 1269 to 2004. New data confirms that summer temperatures have been the warmest in the region in 800 years since the 1990s.
Central Asia Region, New Projectionswarmer by 3-6 ° C from the end of 2100. The sharp rise in temperatures is already damaging fragile ecosystems and causing massive losses of livestock, which have historically been the backbone of Mongolia's economy.
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