Fire History Reconstruction from Middle Rio Pueblo Tree Rings

Northern New Mexico fire history data spanning 422 calendar years before present. The dataset contains parameters related to fire history derived from tree rings, archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. The associated study type is Fire.

Use Cases

• Analyze fire frequency and timing over a 422-year period using tree-ring fire scar data.
• Reconstruct historical climate-fire relationships by correlating fire event years with regional paleoclimate proxies.
• Model fire return intervals for the Middle Rio Pueblo area based on dated fire events.

Strengths

• Covers a specific 422-year time period from 422 to 1 calendar years BP.
• Data is curated and archived by the authoritative NOAA World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.

Limitations

• The exact number of records, sample sites, and measured parameters is unknown from the description.
• Temporal coverage ends at 1 year BP, limiting analysis of very recent fire history.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Data derived from tree-ring analysis (dendrochronology) to identify fire events.

Time Range

422 to 1 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

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Geography

Middle Rio Pueblo, northern New Mexico, United States of America.