Hidden Valley South Fire History Reconstruction from Tree Rings

NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology provides a fire history dataset from the Hidden Valley South site in Colorado, USA. The data reconstructs fire events from tree rings, covering a period from 660 to -48 calendar years before present. This archived study was published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information.

Use Cases

• Reconstructing past fire frequency and severity using tree-ring fire scar data.
• Analyzing the relationship between fire history and climate variability over a 700-year period.
• Calibrating regional fire history models with site-specific fire event chronologies.
• Studying pre-industrial fire regimes in Colorado forests prior to modern fire suppression.

Strengths

• Data covers a long temporal range of approximately 708 calendar years.
• Sourced from the authoritative NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information.
• Focuses on a specific geographic location (Hidden Valley South, Colorado).

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, last updated in 1998.
• Geographic scope is limited to a single site in Colorado.
• Specific data parameters, row counts, and file formats are unknown.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Reconstructed from tree-ring analysis (dendrochronology).

Time Range

660 to -48 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

1998-01-01

Geography

Hidden Valley South, Colorado, United States Of America.