Ponderosa Pine Tree Ring Chronology from Lower Canyon, Stein Valley

Tree ring parameters from Ponderosa Pine (PIPO) in British Columbia, Canada, provide a 499-year chronology from 454 to -45 calendar years before present. The NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) archives this paleoclimatology study under the World Data Service. The data was last updated in 1995.

Use Cases

• Reconstruct past climate variables like temperature or precipitation using the annual tree-ring width series.
• Calibrate radiocarbon dating or other chronological models with the precisely dated tree-ring chronology.
• Analyze long-term ecological growth patterns of Ponderosa Pine (PIPO) in the Stein Valley region.

Strengths

• Covers a 499-year time period (454 to -45 BP), providing a multi-century climate proxy.
• Sourced from the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, with a last update recorded in 1995.
• Specific sample size, measurement parameters, and data formats are not provided in the description.
• Geographic coverage is limited to a single site in the Lower Canyon, Stein Valley.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Dendrochronology (Tree Ring analysis).

Time Range

454 to -45 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

1995-01-01

Geography

Lower Canyon, Stein Valley, British Columbia, Canada.