Mount Adams Tree Ring Chronology for Climate Reconstruction

A 139-year tree-ring chronology from Mount Adams, Washington, covering 97 to -42 calendar years before present. The dataset contains parameters of tree ring growth, archived by NOAA NCEI's World Data Service for Paleoclimatology. This paleoclimatology study was published in 1992.

Use Cases

• Reconstruct past temperature or precipitation anomalies using the tree-ring width chronology as a proxy.
• Calibrate the tree-ring chronology against known climate events within the 139-year time period.
• Analyze growth trends in Abies lasiocarpa (ABLA) trees from the Mount Adams region for ecological studies.

Strengths

• Covers a 139-year time period (97 to -42 BP)
• Sourced from the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology

Limitations

• Temporal coverage is relatively short for long-term climate trend analysis
• Data is geographically limited to a single site at Mount Adams, Washington
• The dataset was last updated in 1992, indicating potential staleness

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree ring data collection (dendrochronology)

Time Range

97 to -42 calendar years before present (BP)

Freshness

1992-01-01

Geography

Mount Adams, Washington, United States Of America