Colorado Fire History Reconstruction from Tree Rings

NOAA NCEI provides a paleoclimatology dataset reconstructing fire history in Colorado, USA, using tree-ring parameters. The data covers a period from 397 to 44 years before present (BP). This archived study was published by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information in 1994.

Use Cases

• Analyze fire frequency and return intervals over a ~440-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 regimes for the Colorado region using the tree-ring fire scar data.
• Validate and calibrate ecological or fire spread models with long-term empirical fire history data.

Strengths

• Covers a long temporal range of approximately 440 calendar years.
• Data is curated and archived by the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.

Limitations

• The dataset's last update was in 1994, making it temporally stale for contemporary analysis.
• Specific sample size, row count, and data granularity are unknown from the provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Data derived from tree-ring analysis (dendrochronology) for fire history parameters.

Time Range

397 to 44 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

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Geography

Colorado, United States Of America.