NOAA's World Data Service for Paleoclimatology archives this tree ring dataset for climate reconstruction. It provides a chronology from 308 to -40 calendar years before present for a location in Russia, Eastern Europe. The data were contributed by Schweingruber and last archived in 1990.
Use Cases
- Reconstruct past temperature or precipitation anomalies using the tree ring width chronology.
- Calibrate climate models by comparing the high-resolution time-series data with proxy records.
- Analyze long-term environmental stress events in Russian forests from the ring parameter data.
- Study the frequency of extreme climatic events in Eastern Europe over the 348-year period covered.
Strengths
- Covers a 348-year time period from 308 to -40 BP, providing a multi-century baseline.
- Sourced from the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.
Limitations
- Data is temporally stale, with a last updated date of 1990.
- Specific sample size, column details, and measurement parameters are unknown from the description.
- Geographic coverage is limited to a single study location in Russia.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.
- Collection Method
- Tree ring analysis (dendrochronology).
- Time Range
- 308 to -40 calendar years before present (BP).
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Russia, Eastern Europe.