Colorado Fire History from Tree Rings at Rollins Pass East

Tree-ring fire history data for Colorado, United States, covering a period from 650 to -44 calendar years before present. The dataset is archived by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information under its World Data Service for Paleoclimatology. The associated study type is Fire and the data was last updated in 1994.

Use Cases

• Reconstruct fire event years from tree-ring fire scar parameters for the Rollins Pass East site.
• Analyze the frequency of fire events over the 694-year period covered by the data.
• Correlate fire history timelines from this dataset with other paleoclimate proxy records for Colorado.
• Study long-term changes in fire return intervals in a subalpine forest ecosystem.

Strengths

• Covers a long temporal range of 694 calendar years (650 to -44 BP).
• Sourced from the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, with a last update recorded in 1994.
• Geographic scope is limited to a single site (Rollins Pass East) in Colorado.
• Specific sample size, row count, and column details are unknown.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree-ring analysis (dendrochronology) for fire history parameters.

Time Range

650 to -44 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

1994-01-01

Geography

Rollins Pass East, Colorado, United States Of America.