Climate of the Past Discussions www.clim-past-discuss.net 1814-9340 1814-9359 4 3 2008 10.5194/cpd-4-611-2008 http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/4/611/2008/ http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/4/611/2008/cpd-4-611-2008.html http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/4/611/2008/cpd-4-611-2008.pdf 611 643 2008-05-22 Variability of summer precipitation over eastern China during the last millennium C. Shen cshen@climate.cestm.albany.edu W.-C. Wang Y. Peng Y. Xu J. Zheng Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA Laboratory for Climate Studies, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China We use measurements of recent decades, 1500-yr proxy data, and millennium model simulations with a variety of climate facings to study the temporal and spatial variability of summer precipitation over eastern China. 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