NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology archives a tree-ring chronology dataset from the Horin Bugatiyn site in Mongolia, Eastern Asia. The data covers a 732-year period from 685 to 47 years before present (BP). It was published by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information and last updated in 1997.
Use Cases
- Calibrating climate models using tree-ring width as a proxy for past temperature or precipitation in Mongolia.
- Analyzing growth anomaly patterns in the tree-ring chronology to identify extreme drought or cold events over 732 years.
- Cross-dating this Mongolian chronology with other regional tree-ring records to validate climate signal synchronicity.
Strengths
- Covers a 732-year time series from 685 to 47 BP.
- Geographically specific to a single site (Horin Bugatiyn) in Mongolia.
Limitations
- Data is temporally stale, last updated in 1997.
- Unknown sample size (row count) and specific measured parameters beyond 'tree ring'.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.
- Collection Method
- Tree ring data collection and analysis (dendrochronology).
- Time Range
- 685 to -47 calendar years BP.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Horin Bugatiyn, Mongolia, Eastern Asia.