Fire History Reconstruction from Lake Duparquet Tree Rings

Quebec, Canada fire history data spanning 340 calendar years, from 306 to -34 years before present. The dataset contains parameters related to fire events and tree-ring analysis. It was archived by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information and last updated in 1984.

Use Cases

• Analyze fire frequency and return intervals over a 340-year period using the calendar years before present data.
• Correlate fire history parameters with other paleoclimate proxies to study climate-fire relationships.
• Reconstruct past forest disturbance regimes in Quebec using the tree-ring and fire event data.

Strengths

• Covers a specific 340-year time period (306 to -34 BP).
• Data is curated and archived by the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service.

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, last updated in 1984.
• Geographic scope is limited to a single island site in Quebec.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree-ring analysis for fire history reconstruction.

Time Range

306 to -34 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

1984-01-01

Geography

Lake Duparquet Island, Quebec, Canada.