Colorado Fire History Reconstruction from Tree Rings

615 to -46 calendar years before present of fire history data reconstructed from tree rings at 39 Mile Mountain in Colorado, United States. The dataset is archived by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information under its World Data Service for Paleoclimatology. The associated study type is Fire and the data was last updated in 1996.

Use Cases

• Analyze fire return intervals and frequency using the reconstructed fire year data.
• Correlate fire history events with other paleoclimate proxies using the calendar years before present (BP) timeline.
• Model historical fire-climate relationships for the Colorado region using the fire history parameters.
• Reconstruct past vegetation and disturbance regimes from the tree-ring fire scar data.

Strengths

• Covers a long temporal range of 661 years (from 615 to -46 BP).
• Geographically specific to a defined site (39 Mile Mountain, Colorado).
• Part of the authoritative NOAA/NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, last updated in 1996.
• Sample size and specific row/column counts are unknown.
• Geographic scope is limited to a single mountain site in Colorado.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Reconstructed from tree-ring analysis (dendrochronology).

Time Range

615 to -46 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

1996-01-01

Geography

39 Mile Mountain, Colorado, United States Of America.