Fly Peak Chiricahua Mountains Tree Ring Chronology

NOAA's Paleoclimatology archive provides a tree-ring chronology from the Fly Peak site in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona. The data covers a period from 247 to -33 calendar years before present. The study was archived by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information in 1983.

Use Cases

• Reconstruct past climate variables like temperature or precipitation using tree-ring width measurements.
• Calibrate regional dendrochronological models by analyzing the chronology's time-series pattern.
• Validate climate proxy records by comparing this site's data with other southwestern US tree-ring chronologies.

Strengths

• Data spans a specific 280-year period from 247 to -33 calendar years BP.
• Provided by NOAA NCEI, an authoritative source for paleoclimate archives.

Limitations

• The dataset is temporally stale, last updated in 1983.
• The geographic coverage is limited to a single site in Arizona.
• Specific data parameters, sample sizes, and measurement details are unknown.

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

247 to -33 calendar years before present.

Geography

Fly Peak, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, United States.