Colorado Fire History Reconstruction from Tree Rings

NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology archives a fire history dataset from the BM13 site in Colorado. The data covers a 424-year period from 380 to -44 calendar years before present. It is maintained by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.

Use Cases

• Reconstruct fire event years from tree-ring fire scar data.
• Analyze fire frequency and return intervals over the 424-year period.
• Correlate fire history parameters with other paleoclimate proxy records for Colorado.

Strengths

• Covers a specific 424-year time period (380 to -44 BP).
• Sourced from the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, last updated in 1994.
• Geographic scope is limited to a single site (BM13) in Colorado.

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

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

Freshness

1994-01-01

Geography

Colorado, United States Of America (specific site BM13).