Tree ring data from Colorado provides a fire history record spanning 395 years. The dataset contains parameters related to fire events and dendrochronology. It was archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information and last updated in 1995.
Use Cases
- Analyze fire frequency and return intervals using the fire history parameter time series.
- Correlate fire event years from tree-ring data with regional paleoclimate proxies.
- Reconstruct historical wildfire severity and extent for the Colorado location over the 350 to -45 BP period.
Strengths
- Time series covers a 395-year period from 350 to -45 calendar years before present.
- Data is curated and archived by the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.
Limitations
- Data is temporally stale, with a last update recorded in 1995.
- Specific sample size, row count, and column details are unknown.
- Geographic coverage is limited to a single site (BM39) 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
- 350 to -45 calendar years before present (BP).
- Freshness
- 1995-01-01
- Geography
- Colorado, United States of America (specific site BM39).