Swiss Tree Ring Chronology for Paleoclimate Reconstruction

NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology archives a tree ring dataset from the Fosana Gambarogno site in Switzerland. The chronology covers a 50-year period from 12 to -37 calendar years before present. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) compiled and published this data in 1987.

Use Cases

• Reconstruct past temperature or precipitation anomalies using the tree ring width chronology.
• Calibrate climate models with proxy data from the Swiss Alps region.
• Analyze growth patterns in the FASY chronology to identify extreme climatic events.
• Compare this ITRDB SWIT238 series with other regional chronologies for spatial climate analysis.

Strengths

• Data is curated and archived by the authoritative NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information.
• Chronology provides a continuous 50-year time series for analysis.

Limitations

• The dataset's last update was in 1987, making it temporally stale for contemporary analysis.
• The specific sample size, measurement parameters, and file formats are unknown from the description.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree ring data collection (dendrochronology).

Time Range

12 to -37 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

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Geography

Fosana Gambarogno, Switzerland, Western Europe.