Lookout Mountain Ponderosa Pine Tree Ring Chronology from Oregon

285 to -40 calendar years before present, this dataset contains a tree-ring chronology from Ponderosa Pine (PIPO) at Lookout Mountain, Oregon for paleoclimatic analysis. It is an archived study from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information World Data Service for Paleoclimatology. The data was last updated in the platform in 1990.

Use Cases

• Reconstruct past temperature or precipitation anomalies by analyzing the annual tree-ring width series.
• Calibrate climate models using the precisely dated proxy record covering over three centuries.
• Study the growth response of Ponderosa Pine (PIPO) to historical climate events within the specific geographic location of Oregon.

Strengths

• Covers a 325-year period from 285 to -40 calendar years BP, providing a multi-century climate proxy.
• Sourced from the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.

Limitations

• Temporal coverage ends at -40 BP, making the most recent data over 40 years old relative to 1950.
• Sample size, number of cores, and specific measurement parameters are unknown from the provided description.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree-ring analysis (dendrochronology) of Ponderosa Pine (PIPO).

Time Range

285 to -40 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

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Geography

Lookout Mountain, Oregon, United States Of America.