Fire History Reconstruction from Rye Slough Tree Rings

750 to -46 calendar years before present of fire history data derived from tree rings at Rye Slough, Colorado. The dataset is archived by NOAA's World Data Service for Paleoclimatology and was last updated in 1996. It includes parameters related to fire events and dendrochronological measurements.

Use Cases

• Analyze fire return intervals using the calendar years before present time series.
• Correlate fire event parameters with regional climate proxies from tree-ring width data.
• Reconstruct historical fire regimes in Colorado using the fire history chronology.

Strengths

• Covers a long temporal range of approximately 796 years (750 to -46 BP).
• Data is curated and archived by the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service.

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, with no updates since 1996.
• Sample size and spatial resolution are unknown, potentially limiting statistical power.
• Geographic coverage is limited to a single site in Colorado.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Data derived from tree-ring analysis (dendrochronology) to infer fire history.

Time Range

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

Freshness

1996-01-01

Geography

Rye Slough, Colorado, United States of America.