NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology archives a tree ring chronology from Tokachi, Japan. The data provides a climate proxy record covering a 510-year period from 463 to -47 calendar years before present. This dataset is maintained by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information and was last updated in 1997.
Use Cases
- Reconstruct past temperature or precipitation anomalies from tree ring width measurements.
- Calibrate climate models by comparing the proxy chronology against known historical climate events.
- Analyze long-term climate trends in Eastern Asia using the 510-year time series.
- Study the response of Tokachi region tree growth to volcanic or other forcing events within the recorded period.
Strengths
- Covers a 510-year time period (463 to -47 BP)
- Sourced from the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology
Limitations
- Data is temporally stale, last updated in 1997
- Specific sample size, measurement parameters, and potential site biases are unknown from the description
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology
- Collection Method
- Tree ring analysis (dendrochronology)
- Time Range
- 463 to -47 calendar years before present (BP)
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Tokachi, Japan, Eastern Asia