Historical Timber Tree Ring Data from Regensburg, Germany

402 to 236 calendar years before present of tree ring parameters from Bavaria, Germany. This archived paleoclimatology study is available from NOAA NCEI under the World Data Service for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Tree Ring.

Use Cases

• Reconstruct past climate variables like temperature or precipitation from tree ring width and density parameters.
• Calibrate regional dendrochronological sequences for Bavaria using the 166-year time series.
• Analyze growth patterns in Abies alba (ABAL) timber from the Regensburg site for historical ecology studies.

Strengths

• Covers a 166-year time period (402 to 236 BP) from a specific historical site.
• Data is archived and curated by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).

Limitations

• Limited geographic scope to a single location in Bavaria, Germany.
• Unknown sample size and row count for statistical robustness.
• Data is temporally stale, with a last updated metadata date of 1714.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Dendrochronological analysis of historical timbers (Abies alba) from the Am Olberg Str. 3+5 site in Regensburg.

Time Range

402 to 236 calendar years before present (BP).

Geography

Bavaria, Germany.