NOAA's Paleoclimatology archive provides a fire history dataset from Alley Spring Camp in Missouri, USA. The data covers a 231-year period from 209 to -22 calendar years before present (BP). It was compiled by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information under the World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.
Use Cases
- Analyze fire occurrence frequency over the 231-year period using the calendar years before present (BP) timeline.
- Correlate fire history events with regional paleoclimate proxies to study climate-fire relationships.
- Reconstruct historical fire return intervals for the Missouri Ozarks region using dated fire scars from tree rings.
Strengths
- Covers a specific 231-year time period (209 to -22 BP).
- Sourced from the authoritative NOAA NCEI Paleoclimatology archive.
Limitations
- Very small temporal coverage relative to typical paleoclimate studies.
- Geographic scope is limited to a single site (Alley Spring Camp) in Missouri.
- Data is stale, with a last update recorded in 1972.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology.
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- 209 to -22 calendar years before present (BP).
- Freshness
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- Geography
- Alley Spring Camp, Missouri, United States Of America.