559 to -37 calendar years before present (BP) of tree-ring width data from a Ponderosa Pine site in New Mexico, USA. This paleoclimatology dataset is part of the NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology archive. The data was contributed by Swetnam and last updated in 1987.
Use Cases
- Reconstruct historical climate variables like precipitation or temperature by analyzing the tree-ring width chronology.
- Calibrate radiocarbon dating or other chronological methods using the dated tree-ring series.
- Study forest growth responses and resilience to past climatic events recorded in the ring-width data.
- Compare this site's dendrochronological record with other regional chronologies to analyze spatial climate patterns.
Strengths
- Covers a 596-year time period (559 to -37 BP).
- Sourced from the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.
Limitations
- Data is temporally stale, with a last update recorded in 1987.
- Specific sample size, geographic precision, and measurement parameters are unknown from the description.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology.
- Collection Method
- Tree ring data collection (dendrochronology).
- Time Range
- 559 to -37 calendar years before present (BP).
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Elephant Rock, New Mexico, United States Of America.