A 480-year tree ring chronology from British Columbia, Canada, covering the period from 431 to -49 calendar years before present. The dataset was archived by NOAA's World Data Service for Paleoclimatology and provides parameters for climate reconstruction studies. It was last updated in the NOAA system in 1999.
Use Cases
- Reconstruct historical temperature or precipitation anomalies using tree ring width parameters.
- Calibrate climate models by comparing the tree ring chronology against other proxy records for the 480-year period.
- Analyze growth response to environmental stressors by examining year-to-year variations in the ring parameters.
- Establish regional climate timelines for British Columbia by cross-dating this chronology with other ITRDB series.
Strengths
- Covers a 480-year time period from 431 to -49 BP.
- Part of the authoritative International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB) collection curated by NOAA NCEI.
Limitations
- Data is temporally stale, with a last recorded update in 1999.
- Specific parameters, sample size, and measurement details are not provided in the input.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.
- Collection Method
- Tree ring data collection and analysis.
- Time Range
- 431 to -49 calendar years before present (BP).
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada.