Mt. Moehau Tree Ring Chronology For New Zealand Paleoclimate

New Zealand tree ring data from Mt. Moehau, covering 620 calendar years from 590 to -30 years before present. The dataset is archived by NOAA NCEI's World Data Service for Paleoclimatology as a Tree Ring study. It was last updated in the NOAA system in 1980.

Use Cases

• Reconstruct past temperature or precipitation anomalies using the tree-ring width chronology as a proxy.
• Calibrate radiocarbon dating or other chronological models by aligning the tree-ring time series with known events.
• Analyze climate periodicity and extreme events over a 620-year span from the measured tree-ring parameters.

Strengths

• Covers a 620-year time period (590 to -30 BP) for long-term trend analysis.
• Sourced from the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.

Limitations

• Temporal coverage ends 30 years before present (1950 CE), lacking recent decades.
• Specific sample size, measurement parameters, and site replication details are unknown from the description.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree ring analysis (dendrochronology).

Time Range

590 to -30 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

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Geography

Mt. Moehau, New Zealand.