NOAA's Paleoclimatology archive provides a tree-ring chronology from the Tajique Canyon site in New Mexico, USA. The data covers a period from 294 to -22 calendar years before present (BP), indicating it includes years both before and after the 1950 reference date. This dataset was produced by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information and was archived in 1972.
Use Cases
- Reconstruct past temperature or precipitation anomalies using the tree-ring width series.
- Calibrate climate models by comparing the chronology with other proxy records from the region.
- Analyze growth patterns in PIED (Pinus edulis, pinyon pine) to infer past drought events.
- Establish a dated timeline for environmental events in the Tajique Canyon area using the ITRDB NM037 series.
Strengths
- Data spans 316 years (from 294 to -22 BP), providing a multi-century record.
- Sourced from the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.
Limitations
- The dataset's last documented update was in 1972, making it temporally stale for modern analysis standards.
- The specific sample depth, measurement parameters, and potential error ranges 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 PIED (Pinus edulis) samples.
- Time Range
- 294 to -22 calendar years before present (BP).
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Tajique Canyon, New Mexico, United States of America.