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ArticleScience advances2021

Change of extreme snow events shaped the roof of traditional Chinese architecture in the past millennium.

Siyang Li, Ke Ding, Aijun Ding, Lejun He, Xin Huang, Quansheng Ge, Congbin Fu

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Article in Science advances, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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7 authors.

Siyang LiSchool of History, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4362-8394
Ke DingSchool of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6436-6226
Aijun DingSchool of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4481-5386
Lejun HeSchool of History, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6410-662X
Xin HuangSchool of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0922-5014
Quansheng GeInstitute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100101, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8712-8565
Congbin FuSchool of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9686-4337

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As a symbol of civilization and culture, architecture was originally developed for sheltering people from unpleasant weather or other environmental conditions. Therefore, architecture is expected to be sensitive to climate change, particularly to changes in the occurrence of extreme weather events. However, although meteorological factors are widely considered in modern architecture design, it remains unclear whether and how ancient people adapted to climate change from the perspective of architecture design, particularly on a millennium time scale. Here, we show periodic change and a positive trend in roof slope of traditional buildings in the northern part of central and eastern China and demonstrate climate change adaptation in traditional Chinese architecture, driven by fluctuations in extreme snowfall events over the past thousand years. This study provides an excellent example showing how humans have long been aware of the impact of climate change on daily life and learned to adapt to it.

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