Fire History Reconstruction from North Alamo Bog Tree Rings

Tree-ring data from North Alamo Bog, New Mexico, provides a 584-year record of fire events from 538 to -46 calendar years before present. This paleoclimatology dataset was archived by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. The data collection was last updated in 1996.

Use Cases

• Analyze fire frequency and return intervals using the dated fire scar events from tree rings.
• Correlate fire history parameters with regional paleoclimate proxy records to study climate-fire relationships.
• Reconstruct historical fire seasonality and intensity from the fire scar data within the tree-ring chronology.

Strengths

• Covers a 584-year time period (538 to -46 BP)
• Sourced from the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, with a last update recorded in 1996
• Geographic coverage is limited to a single bog site in New Mexico

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree-ring analysis (dendrochronology) for fire scar detection

Time Range

538 to -46 calendar years before present (BP)

Freshness

1996-01-01

Geography

North Alamo Bog, New Mexico, United States Of America