Bent Creek Experimental Forest Tree Ring Chronology from 234 to -46 BP

NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology archives a tree ring dataset from the Bent Creek Experimental Forest in North Carolina. The data provides a chronology covering a 280-year period from 234 to -46 calendar years before present. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information published this study in 1996.

Use Cases

• Calibrate regional climate models using the tree-ring width chronology as a proxy for past temperature and precipitation.
• Analyze growth patterns in the chronology to study forest response to historical environmental stressors.
• Cross-date the Bent Creek chronology with other ITRDB series to validate regional climate reconstructions.

Strengths

• Data spans a 280-year period from 234 to -46 BP.
• Archived by the authoritative NOAA World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.

Limitations

• Dataset is temporally stale, last updated in 1996.
• Sample size, geographic representativeness, and specific measurement parameters are unknown.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree ring data collection, likely core sampling and measurement.

Time Range

234 to -46 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

1996-01-01

Geography

Bent Creek Experimental Forest, North Carolina, United States.