St. George Tree Ring Chronology from Kildanon Park, Manitoba

NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology archives a tree-ring chronology from Kildonan Park, Manitoba, Canada. The data covers a time period from 230 to -49 calendar years before present. This study is provided by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information.

Use Cases

• Reconstruct past climate variables like temperature or precipitation using the tree-ring width chronology.
• Calibrate radiocarbon dating models by aligning the tree-ring time series with known calendar years.
• Analyze growth anomalies in the ring-width data to identify historical environmental stress events.

Strengths

• Data spans 279 years of calendar years before present, from 230 to -49 BP.
• Sourced from the authoritative NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).

Limitations

• Temporal coverage is limited to a specific 279-year period, not a continuous modern record.
• The dataset's last metadata update was in 1999, indicating potential staleness in documentation.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree ring analysis (dendrochronology).

Time Range

230 to -49 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

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Geography

Kildonan Park, Manitoba, Canada.