摘要
The climate conditions during the Little Ice Age (LIA) provide immediate background for assessing current climate warming. In this paper, the spatial and temporal climate variability on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) since the LIA was studied by applying the empirical orthogonal function (EOF) technique to tree-ring chronologies and instrumental meteorological data. Furthermore, there is obvious phase shift in moisture change between the southern and northern TP. Cross-correlations showed that the wet/dry variation in the southern TP is 17 years earlier than that in the northern TP. If it is true, the authors project future climate change for the northern TP based on current climate conditions on the southern TP.