Chile Tree Ring Chronologies as Proxy Data for Solar Variability

Millennia-long Tree-ring Chronologies as Records of Climate Variability in Finland

There have been great advances in the field of dendroclimatological research during the past decades. Tree-ring data have been used to derive various climate variables for certain localities and for larger regions. Characteristics of tree-rings provide measurements which can be used as records of climate variability prior to any instrumental weather observations. This is how dendroclimatology c...

Low-frequency signals in long tree-ring chronologies for reconstructing past temperature variability.

Preserving multicentennial climate variability in long tree-ring records is critically important for reconstructing the full range of temperature variability over the past 1000 years. This allows the putative "Medieval Warm Period" (MWP) to be described and to be compared with 20th-century warming in modeling and attribution studies. We demonstrate that carefully selected tree-ring chronologies...

Comparing Tree-ring Chronologies and Repeated Timber Inventories as Forest Monitoring Tools

Historical information on forest growth is essential to evaluate and understand change in managed and unmanaged forests. Two ground-truth nondestructive sources of information on interannual to interdecadal changes are (a) repeated timber inventories and (b) tree-ring chronologies. I present here a case study of how those two types of data can complement and benefit each other. At the Gus Pears...

Using Inventory-based Tree-ring Data as a Proxy for Historical Climate: Investigating the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and teleconnections

Investigating Forest Inventory and Analysis-Collected Tree-Ring Data from Utah as a Proxy for Historical Climate

—Increment cores collected as part of the periodic inventory in the Intermountain West were examined for their potential to represent growth and be a proxy for climate (precipitation) over a large region (Utah). Standardized and crossdated time-series created from pinyon pine (n=249) and Douglas-fir (n=274) increment cores displayed spatiotemporal patterns in growth differences both between spe...