Colorado Fire History Reconstruction from Tree Rings

Tree-ring data from Colorado provides a 286-year record of fire events, spanning from 242 to -44 calendar years before present. The NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information archives this paleoclimatology study for fire history research. The dataset was last updated in 1994.

Use Cases

• Analyze fire_event_year and fire_scar data to reconstruct historical fire frequency in Colorado forests.
• Correlate fire_history parameters with other paleoclimate proxies to study climate-fire relationships over centuries.
• Use the geographic_location data to map historical fire regimes in specific areas of Colorado.
• Validate and calibrate ecological models of forest disturbance using the multi-century time series.

Strengths

• Covers a 286-year time period (242 to -44 BP)
• Archived by the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, last updated in 1994
• Geographic coverage is limited to a specific location in Colorado, USA
• Specific row count, column details, and sample size 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 scar identification.

Time Range

242 to -44 calendar years before present (BP)

Freshness

1994-01-01

Geography

Colorado, United States Of America