Winch Pond Tree Ring Chronology For Adirondack Paleoclimate

A tree-ring chronology from the Adirondack Mountains in New York, USA, covering 282 years from 254 to -28 calendar years before present. This paleoclimatology dataset was produced by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information and archived in 1978. It contains parameters related to tree-ring growth for climate reconstruction studies.

Use Cases

• Reconstruct past temperature or precipitation anomalies using annual tree-ring width measurements.
• Calibrate climate models by comparing the tree-ring chronology with instrumental records for the region.
• Analyze growth trends and extreme years (e.g., narrow rings indicating drought) within the 282-year time series.
• Study the response of pine species (inferred from ITRDB code PIST) to climate stressors in a temperate forest ecosystem.

Strengths

• Time series covers 282 calendar years, providing a multi-century climate record.
• Data is curated and archived by the authoritative NOAA World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.

Limitations

• The temporal coverage ends at 28 years before present (BP), making the most recent data several decades old.
• The specific measured parameters (e.g., ring width, density) and sample depth are unknown from the provided description.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree-ring analysis (dendrochronology) from a site in the Adirondack Mountains.

Time Range

254 to -28 calendar years BP.

Freshness

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Geography

Winch Pond, Adirondack Mountains, New York, United States Of America.