Morino Fire History from Rock House Spring Tree Rings

Tree-ring based fire history data from Rock House Spring, New Mexico, covering 544 calendar years from 501 to -43 years before present. The dataset is archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information under the World Data Service for Paleoclimatology. It was last updated in the NOAA system in 1993.

Use Cases

• Analyze fire occurrence frequency over the 544-year period using the fire history time-series.
• Correlate fire events with regional climate proxies using the calendar year before present (BP) chronology.
• Reconstruct historical fire regimes for New Mexico using the geographic location and tree-ring parameters.

Strengths

• Covers a 544-year time period from 501 to -43 calendar years BP.
• Sourced from the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, with a last update recorded in 1993.
• Specific sample size, row count, and measurement parameters are unknown from the provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree-ring analysis (dendrochronology) for fire history parameters.

Time Range

501 to -43 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

1993-01-01

Geography

Rock House Spring, New Mexico, United States of America.