Tree ring data from the Andrew Johnson Woods site in Ohio provides a 359-year chronology for paleoclimate analysis. The time series coverage spans from 324 to -35 calendar years before present. This archived study was contributed by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information and was last updated in 1985.
Use Cases
- Calibrating climate models using the tree ring width chronology as a proxy for past temperature or precipitation.
- Analyzing growth anomaly patterns within the time series to identify historical drought or favorable growth periods.
- Correlating the site's ring-width index with other regional chronologies to reconstruct broader climate patterns.
Strengths
- Provides a 359-year continuous chronology (324 to -35 BP).
- Data is archived and curated by the authoritative NOAA World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.
Limitations
- The dataset's last update was in 1985, making it temporally stale for contemporary analysis methods.
- Specific parameters, sample depth, and measurement details are unknown without examining full metadata.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology.
- Collection Method
- Tree ring data collection (dendrochronology).
- Time Range
- 324 to -35 calendar years before present (BP).
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Andrew Johnson Woods, Ohio, United States of America.