Cat Mesa Ponderosa Pine Tree Ring Chronology from New Mexico

378 to -36 calendar years before present (BP) of tree ring data from a Ponderosa Pine (PIPO) site at Cat Mesa, New Mexico. The dataset is part of the NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology archive and was contributed by Swetnam. It was last updated in the NOAA system in 1986.

Use Cases

• Reconstruct past climate conditions like precipitation or temperature using annual tree ring width measurements.
• Calibrate tree ring chronologies for the southwestern US by cross-dating samples from this specific site (ITRDB NM556).
• Analyze long-term ecological trends and disturbance events recorded in the tree ring parameters for the Cat Mesa location.

Strengths

• Covers a significant 414-year time period from 378 to -36 BP.
• Data is archived and curated by the authoritative NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).

Limitations

• The dataset's last known update was in 1986, making it temporally stale for modern analytical techniques.
• Specific sample size, measured parameters, and data granularity are unknown from the provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree ring data collection (dendrochronology).

Time Range

378 to -36 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

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Geography

Cat Mesa, New Mexico, United States of America.