Spruce Mountain Tree Ring Width Chronology for Nevada

NOAA's Paleoclimatology archive provides a tree-ring width chronology from Spruce Mountain, Nevada, USA. The data covers a 480-year period from 450 to -30 calendar years before present. This dataset was published by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) in 1980.

Use Cases

• Reconstruct past temperature or precipitation anomalies by analyzing the annual tree-ring width series.
• Calibrate regional climate models using the high-resolution, annually-dated proxy record.
• Study long-term ecological responses to climate change by examining growth trends in the chronology.
• Cross-date and validate other paleoclimate archives from the western United States using this master chronology.

Strengths

• Data spans a continuous 480-year period, providing a multi-century climate proxy.
• Sourced from the authoritative NOAA/NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.

Limitations

• Dataset is temporally stale, with a last update date of 1980.
• Geographic scope is limited to a single site (Spruce Mountain, Nevada).
• Specific sample size, replication statistics, and measurement details are unknown from the provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree-ring analysis (dendrochronology), measuring ring width parameters.

Time Range

450 to -30 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

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Geography

Spruce Mountain, Nevada, United States of America.