Tree Ring Chronology from St Mary Church in Britain (747-578 BP)

NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology archives a tree ring chronology dataset from the Church of St Mary, part of the International Tree-Ring Data Bank. The data covers the period from 747 to 578 calendar years before present, sourced from the British Isles. It is maintained by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information.

Use Cases

• Calibrating regional climate models using tree-ring width as a proxy for past temperature or precipitation.
• Analyzing growth anomaly patterns in the QUSP chronology to identify extreme climatic events like droughts.
• Cross-dating archaeological wood samples from the British Isles against the ITRDB BRIT073 reference chronology.
• Reconstructing summer temperature variability for the 7th-6th centuries BCE from the tree-ring parameter data.

Strengths

• Chronology covers a 170-year period (747-578 BP) for climate analysis.
• Data is part of the curated International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB) collection.

Limitations

• Sample size and replication depth for the chronology are unknown.
• Temporal coverage is limited to a specific 170-year window in the early first millennium BCE.
• Geographic scope is restricted to a single site in the British Isles.

Provenance

Source

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.

Collection Method

Tree-ring data collection and chronology development via dendrochronology.

Time Range

747 to 578 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

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Geography

United Kingdom, British Isles.