Colorado Fire History Reconstruction from Tree Rings

Tree ring data from Colorado provides a fire history record spanning 342 calendar years before present. The dataset is archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. The associated study type is Fire.

Use Cases

• Analyze fire return intervals using the 342-year time series of fire events.
• Correlate fire history parameters with other paleoclimate proxies for the Colorado region.
• Reconstruct historical fire frequency and severity from tree-ring fire scar data.
• Study spatial patterns of past fires using the geospatial location data for the site.

Strengths

• Covers a specific 342-year time period (298 to -44 BP).
• Data is curated and archived by the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service.

Limitations

• The dataset is temporally stale, with a last update recorded in 1994.
• Sample size and specific parameter details are unknown from the description.
• Geographic coverage is limited to a single location in Colorado.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

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

Time Range

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

Freshness

1994-01-01

Geography

Colorado, United States of America.