Bluff Mountain Tree Ring Chronology From 237 to -43 BP

A tree-ring chronology from the Bluff Mountain Nature Conservancy in North Carolina, USA. The dataset covers 280 calendar years, from 237 to -43 years before present (BP). It was archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information in 1993.

Use Cases

• Calibrate climate models using tree-ring width as a proxy for past temperature or precipitation.
• Analyze growth anomaly patterns in the chronology to identify extreme historical climate events.
• Compare this North Carolina chronology with other regional series to study spatial climate variability.

Strengths

• Covers a 280-year time period from 237 to -43 BP.
• Sourced from the authoritative NOAA/NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, last updated in 1993.
• The specific sample size (number of tree cores) is unknown.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree ring data collection (dendrochronology).

Time Range

237 to -43 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

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Geography

Bluff Mountain Nature Conservancy, North Carolina, United States of America.