2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Winter/spring climate changes during the past 300 years based on the continuous records of lake/river freezing and snowfall
Project/Area Number |
20H01389
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Review Section |
Basic Section 04010:Geography-related
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Research Institution | Tokyo Metropolitan University |
Principal Investigator |
Mikami Takehiko 東京都立大学, 都市環境科学研究科, 客員教授 (10114662)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
高橋 洋 東京都立大学, 都市環境科学研究科, 助教 (50397478)
財城 真寿美 成蹊大学, 経済学部, 教授 (50534054)
長谷川 直子 (石黒直子) お茶の水女子大学, 基幹研究院, 准教授 (60433231)
平野 淳平 帝京大学, 文学部, 准教授 (80567503)
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Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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Keywords | 気候変動 / 温暖化 / 諏訪湖 / 十三湖 / 結氷記録 / 降雪率 / 古日記 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Continuous records of freezing at Lake Jusan since the 18th century revealed long-term winter climate variations. Also, based on daily weather records in historical diaries during the 1700s and 1860s, we calculated winter snowfall ratios (number of snowfall days/number of precipitation days) in Hirosaki and Nagasaki to reconstruct winter/spring temperature variations and clarified climatic changes over the past 300 years. The results show that while a warming trend was observed in northeastern Japan from the 18th to the middle of the 19th century, the opposite trend was observed in southwestern Japan. In southwestern Japan, the warming peaked in the 1850s and 1860s, followed by discontinuous climate change (regime shift) in the 1950s and 1980s.
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Free Research Field |
気候学
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
気象観測データのない冬春季の気候変動を復元・推定する手法として,長期的な湖の結氷記録や古日記に記載された天候記録による降雪率が統計学的に有意であることが実証されたことは,過去数百年間の冬季気候変動の解明に大きく貢献し,学術的意義が高いと言える。また,冬春季の気候変動が,長期的に緩やかに温暖化するのではなく,数十年~百年の時間スケールで不連続的な階段状の変化をすることが明らかになったことは,冬春季の気候変動に関連する産業や人々の生活にも影響するため,社会的にも意義が高い。
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