Colorado Fire History Reconstruction from Tree Rings

296 to -44 calendar years before present, this dataset reconstructs fire history parameters from tree-ring data for Colorado, USA. It is archived by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information under the World Data Service for Paleoclimatology. The associated study type is Fire and the data was last updated in 1994.

Use Cases

• Analyze fire frequency and return intervals over a 340-year period using the time-series of fire events.
• Correlate fire history parameters with other paleoclimate proxies to study climate-fire relationships.
• Reconstruct historical fire severity and extent for specific calendar years before present documented in the tree-ring records.
• Validate and calibrate regional fire regime models using the empirically derived fire history timeline.

Strengths

• Covers a 340-year temporal range from 296 to -44 calendar years BP.
• Archived by the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, last updated in 1994.
• Specific sample size, column names, and data granularity 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

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

Freshness

1994-01-01

Geography

Colorado, United States Of America.