Colorado Spruce Canyon Tree Ring Chronology from 577 BC

NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology provides a tree-ring chronology for Spruce Canyon, Colorado. The data covers a 605-year period from 577 to -28 calendar years before present. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information archived this paleoclimatology study.

Use Cases

• Reconstruct past climate variables like temperature or precipitation using annual tree-ring width measurements.
• Calibrate climate models by comparing the tree-ring chronology with known historical climate events.
• Analyze growth patterns in Engelmann spruce (PSME) to study ecological responses to environmental changes over six centuries.
• Establish a dated chronology for archaeological or geological studies in the Colorado region using the tree-ring series.

Strengths

• Covers a 605-year time period from 577 to -28 calendar years BP.
• Data is curated and archived by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).

Limitations

• Dataset appears temporally stale, with a last update date of 1978.
• Specific sample size, measurement parameters, and geographic precision are not detailed in the provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree ring data collection (dendrochronology).

Time Range

577 to -28 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

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Geography

Spruce Canyon, Colorado, United States of America.