Heyerdahl Fire History from Baker City Watershed Tree Rings

NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology archives the Heyerdahl fire dataset from the Baker City Watershed in Oregon, USA. This fire history study uses tree-ring data to reconstruct fire events over a 514-year period. The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) published this record, with a last documented update in 1994.

Use Cases

• Reconstructing fire event years from dated tree-ring scars and fire-scar parameters.
• Analyzing fire frequency and return intervals over the 514-year temporal coverage.
• Correlating fire history data with other paleoclimate proxies for climate-fire relationship studies.
• Calibrating and validating regional fire regime models for the Oregon geographic location.

Strengths

• Covers a 514-year time period from 470 to -44 calendar years BP.
• Data is curated and archived by the authoritative NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).

Limitations

• Dataset appears temporally stale, with a last updated date of 1994.
• Specific sample size, row count, and measurement parameters are unknown from the description.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Fire history reconstruction from tree-ring analysis.

Time Range

470 to -44 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

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Geography

Baker City Watershed, Oregon, United States of America.