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DOI	10.1029/2020GL088124
	One Drought and One Volcanic Eruption Influenced the History of China: The Late Ming Dynasty Mega-drought
	Chen K.; Ning L.; Liu Z.; Liu J.; Yan M.; Sun W.; Yuan L.; Lv G.; Li L.; Jin C.; Shi Z.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0094-8276
卷号	47 期号:16
英文摘要	The late Ming Dynasty Megadrought (LMDMD) (1637–1643) occurred at the end of Ming Dynasty and is the severest drought event in China in the last millennium. This unprecedented drought contributed significantly to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty in 1644, casting profound impacts on Chinese history. Here, the physical mechanism for the LMDMD is studied. Based on paleoclimate reconstructions, we hypothesize that this drought was initially triggered by a natural drought event starting in 1637 and was then intensified and extended by the tropical volcanic eruption at Mount Parker in 1641. This hypothesis is supported by the case study of the Community Earth System Model-Last Millennium Experiment archive as well as sensitivity experiments with volcanic forcing superimposed on natural drought events. The volcano-intensified drought was associated with a decreased land-ocean thermal contrast, a negative soil moisture response, and a weakening and eastward retreating West Pacific Subtropical High. ©2020. The Authors.
英文关键词	Soil moisture; Tropics; Volcanoes; Chinese history; Earth system model; Last millenniums; Ocean thermals; Paleoclimate reconstruction; Physical mechanism; Volcanic eruptions; Volcanic forcing; Drought; climate conditions; climate effect; climate variation; drought; paleoclimate; reconstruction; soil moisture; tropical region; volcanic eruption; China; Pacific Ocean; Pacific Ocean (West)
语种	英语
来源期刊	Geophysical Research Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/169924
作者单位	Key Laboratory for Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education; State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base of Geographical Environment Evolution of Jiangsu Province; Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application; School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China; Open Studio for the Simulation of Ocean-Climate-Isotope, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China; Climate System Research Center, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States; State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China; Department of Geography, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States; Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory for Numerical Simulation of Large Scale Complex Systems, School of Mathematical Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen K.,Ning L.,Liu Z.,et al. One Drought and One Volcanic Eruption Influenced the History of China: The Late Ming Dynasty Mega-drought[J],2020,47(16).
APA	Chen K..,Ning L..,Liu Z..,Liu J..,Yan M..,...&Shi Z..(2020).One Drought and One Volcanic Eruption Influenced the History of China: The Late Ming Dynasty Mega-drought.Geophysical Research Letters,47(16).
MLA	Chen K.,et al."One Drought and One Volcanic Eruption Influenced the History of China: The Late Ming Dynasty Mega-drought".Geophysical Research Letters 47.16(2020).