Schweingruber Tree Ring Chronology from Moma River Russia

Tree ring width measurements from a site in Russia provide a 400-year climate proxy record spanning from 359 to -41 calendar years before present. This paleoclimatology dataset is archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information under its World Data Service. The data was last updated in 1991.

Use Cases

• Calibrating climate models by comparing reconstructed temperature or precipitation proxies from tree ring width series against instrumental records.
• Analyzing growth anomaly years within the ring width chronology to identify extreme historical climate events like droughts or cold periods.
• Establishing a dated chronology for archaeological or geological studies in the region using the provided calendar year BP time axis.

Strengths

• Covers a 400-year time period (359 to -41 BP) for long-term trend analysis.
• Archived and standardized by NOAA NCEI, a leading authority for paleoclimate data.

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, with a last update recorded in 1991.
• The specific parameters, sample depth, and measurement methods are not detailed in the provided description.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree ring analysis (dendrochronology) by Schweingruber.

Time Range

359 to -41 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

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Geography

Moma River, Russia, Eastern Europe.