Damon's Butte Tree Ring Chronology for California Ponderosa Pine

NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology archives a tree-ring chronology from Ponderosa Pine (PIPO) at Damon's Butte, California. The dataset provides annual-resolution proxy climate data covering a 353-year period from 323 to -29 calendar years before present. It was published by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information in 1979.

Use Cases

• Calibrate climate models by comparing the tree-ring width chronology against instrumental temperature and precipitation records.
• Reconstruct historical drought indices for California by analyzing the annual growth patterns in the Ponderosa Pine series.
• Study the response of Ponderosa Pine (PIPO) radial growth to climatic forcing over a multi-century period.
• Establish a dated tree-ring chronology for cross-dating other paleoenvironmental records from the region.

Strengths

• Provides a 353-year annually-resolved climate proxy record.
• Sourced from the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.

Limitations

• Temporal coverage ends 29 years before present (1950 CE), limiting analysis of the most recent climate period.
• Data is geographically limited to a single site (Damon's Butte, California).
• Specific measurement parameters and sample depth are unknown from provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree-ring analysis (dendrochronology) of Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa).

Time Range

323 to -29 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

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Geography

Damon's Butte, California, United States of America.