Arizona's Shonto Plateau provides a tree ring chronology covering 606 years, from 585 to -21 calendar years before present. The dataset was archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information under its Paleoclimatology World Data Service. This tree ring study was last updated in the NOAA system in 1971.
Use Cases
- Reconstruct past climate variables like temperature or precipitation from tree ring width measurements.
- Calibrate radiocarbon dating or other chronological models using the dated tree ring series.
- Analyze long-term ecological growth patterns and disturbance events for the PIED (Pinyon Pine) species in Arizona.
Strengths
- Covers a 606-year time period (585 to -21 BP).
- Geographically specific to the Shonto Plateau in Arizona, United States.
Limitations
- Temporal coverage ends at -21 BP, providing no data for recent centuries.
- The last recorded update in the source system was in 1971, indicating potential staleness.
- Specific row count, column details, and measurement parameters are unknown from the description.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.
- Collection Method
- Tree ring data collection (dendrochronology).
- Time Range
- 585 to -21 calendar years before present (BP).
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Shonto Plateau, Arizona, United States Of America.