Fire History Reconstruction From Tree Rings In New Mexico

578 to -14 calendar years before present of fire history data derived from tree ring analysis in Snow Canyon, New Mexico. This paleoclimatology study is archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information under the World Data Service for Paleoclimatology. The associated study type is Fire.

Use Cases

• Analyze fire frequency and return intervals over nearly 600 years using tree-ring-derived fire scar dates.
• Correlate fire history parameters with regional climate proxies to study climate-fire relationships.
• Reconstruct historical fire regimes in south central New Mexico for ecological baseline studies.
• Validate and calibrate regional fire history models using the long-term temporal record.

Strengths

• Covers a long temporal range of approximately 592 calendar years (578 to -14 BP).
• Data is curated and archived by the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.

Limitations

• The dataset's last update date is 1964, indicating the core data is likely not recent.
• Specific sample size (row count), column details, and file formats are unknown.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree-ring analysis (dendrochronology) for fire history parameters.

Time Range

578 to -14 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

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Geography

Snow Canyon, south central New Mexico, United States Of America.