We have reviewed 43 studies related to dendroclimatology in Kazakhstan, and additionally 13 studies related to other subfields of dendrochronology, which have been published during the past 40 years. This review also includes studies published in Russian, Kazakh, German and Chinese languages, which ...

The divergence problem, which manifests as an unstable response relationship between tree-ring growth and climatic factors under the background of global warming, poses a challenge to both the traditional theory of dendroclimatology and the reliability of climatic reconstructions based on tree-ring ...

In Central Asia, the frequency and severity of droughts have a strong impact on the climate and lives of people. Therefore, it is essential to explore climate change, especially its impacts on the cycle and extent of drought occurrence. To determine drought conditions, the Palmer drought severity...

Clear trends of warming and wetting have occurred in Central Asia during the last 30 years, but how tree growth in low-elevation mountainous areas has responded to climate warming remains unclear. In this paper, we investigated the relationships between Zeravschan juniper (Juniperus seravschanica)...

Coniferous forests cover the mountains in many parts of Central Asia and provide large potentials for dendroclimatic studies of past climate variability. However, to date, only a few tree-ring based climate reconstructions exist from this region. Here, we present a regional tree-ring chronology...

Knowledge of past climatic variability in the eastern Tianshan Mountains of arid Central Asia is still limited due to the lack of long-term instrumental data. In this study, we develop a March-August mean temperature reconstruction since 1766 ce based on annual tree-ring widths of Schrenk spruce (...

We reconstructed the streamflow of the Qingshui River, which originates from the southern slopes of the central Tianshan Mountains in western China. The correlation between the hydrometeorological data and the tree-ring chronology indicated that the influences of temperature and precipitation on...

In this study, a 177-year April-June Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) for the southern slopes of the Altay Mountains (China) was reconstructed based on the earlywood width of 96 Siberian spruce (Picea obovata Ledeb.) samples located at eight different sites. The reconstructed PDSI tracked the...

Despite the great interest in the study of climate change in Central Asia, there are still research gaps; the spatial distribution of the natural proxy data is uneven, and our knowledge of past climate variability is incomplete. Recently many investigations have focused mainly on the region of the...

We examined the changes in streamflow on the northern slopes of the Tianshan Mountains in northern Xinjiang, China, over two time scales: the past 500 years, based on dendrochronology data; and the past 50 years, based on streamflow data from hydrological stations. The method of artificial neural...