A tree ring chronology for Ponderosa Pine from the Laramie Site B Woods Creek location in Wyoming, United States. The data covers the period from 283 to -14 calendar years before present. It is archived by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information under the World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.
Use Cases
- Reconstruct past climate variables like temperature or precipitation by analyzing annual tree ring width variations.
- Calibrate radiocarbon dating or other chronological models using the dated tree ring sequence.
- Study ecological responses to historical environmental events through changes in ring density or other parameters.
- Compare this site's growth chronology with other regional chronologies to identify spatial climate patterns.
Strengths
- Covers a 297-year time period (283 to -14 BP)
- Sourced from the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology
Limitations
- Data collection concluded in 1964, representing a temporally stale snapshot
- Specific sample size, measurement parameters, and potential biases are unknown from the description
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology
- Collection Method
- Tree ring analysis (Dendrochronology)
- Time Range
- 283 to -14 calendar years before present (BP)
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Laramie Site B Woods Creek, Wyoming, United States Of America