A Cool-Arid Climate with Large Temperature Seasonality Implied by Arboreal Pollen in the Early Holocene, North-Central China

The climate of the North-Central China during the Early Holocene is still debated, particularly with regard to precipitation, despite various paleoclimate records based on multi proxies and models (Chen et al., 2015; Liu J B et al., 2015; Liu Z Y et al., 2014). The temperature pattern is also uncertain because of a lack of temperature records for north-central China.