Mar Lodge Tree Ring Chronology for British Isles Paleoclimate

NOAA's World Data Service archives a tree-ring width chronology from the Mar Lodge site in the British Isles. The dataset covers a 130-year period from 104 to -26 calendar years before present. It was published by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information in 1976.

Use Cases

• Calibrating regional climate models by analyzing tree-ring width variations as a proxy for past temperature or precipitation.
• Cross-dating archaeological wood samples from the British Isles using the established Mar Lodge chronology.
• Studying short-term climate anomalies in the 1st century BC by examining the annual resolution of ring-width data.
• Assessing forest growth response to historical environmental stressors documented in the tree-ring record.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 130-year time period (104 to -26 BP).
• Sourced from the authoritative NOAA/NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.
• Includes precise geographic location metadata for the United Kingdom site.

Limitations

• Temporal coverage is limited to a short 130-year window.
• Data is geographically restricted to a single site (Mar Lodge) in the British Isles.
• The dataset is temporally stale, with a last update recorded in 1976.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree-ring data collection and standardization (dendrochronology).

Time Range

104 to -26 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

Last updated in 1976; static archival dataset.

Geography

Mar Lodge, United Kingdom, British Isles.