The understanding of geomorphic processes and knowledge of past events are important tasks for the assessment of natural hazards. Tree rings have on varied occasions proved to be a reliable tool for the acquisition of data on past events. In this review paper, we provide an overview on the use of tree rings in natural hazards research, starting with a description of the different types of distu...

Dendrochronology is the science that uses tree-rings dated to their exact year of formation to analyze temporal and spatial patterns of processes in the physical and cultural sciences. There currently is no published record for tree-ring studies using Eastern Red Cedar in the Upper Mississippi River Valley in Wisconsin. Therefore, this study develops a chronology from treerings using Eastern Re...

introduction climate change happens due to abnormal changes of climate within the earth’s atmosphere and their consequences. one of the most significant effects of climate change is the irreversible damage to some floral species and forest ecosystems. tree species reflect the impact of climate changes on their ring width. generally, tree rings vary in size each year depending upon the environme...

the paper deals with the analysis of the external factor (solar activity, volcanic eruptions) influence on tree growth at the kola peninsula, northwestern russia. pinus sylvestris l. (scots pine) tree-ring chronologies collected nearby the northern timberline (68.63n, 33.25e) include the oldest (1445-2005 ad) living pine tree found up to date in the kola peninsula. a total of 18 living trees pi...

introduction iran is located in a semi arid region of the world. in recent years, dramatic changes in the form of increasing in maximum temperature and severe droughts have damaged water resources, local forests and agriculture. in the mid- and high latitudes of the northern hemisphere the warmest years have been recorded in recent decades (ipcc, 2007). in order to fully understand the climatic...

Tree-rings are one of the most commonly used proxies for reconstructing past climates at annual resolution. The climate information is generally deduced from tree-rings using statistical relationships, but assumed linearity and stationarity may be inadequate. Process-based models allow non-stationarity non-linearity; however, many challenges associated with their application global scale recons...

We address the issue of eeciently assigning wavelengths to communication requests in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical networks. We consider directed tree and tree of rings topologies. These are topologies of concrete practical relevance for which undirected underlying graph models have been studied by Raghavan and Upfal 6]. Directed models were rst studied by Mihail et al 4]. For ...

The distribution of extractives, lignin, and carbohydrates in radiata pine and their variation with tree age are reviewed. Extractives, their nature, and amount depend on the heartwood content of the tree, and thus upon wood age. Lignin decreases in the pith-to-bark sequence; pentosans content decreases over the first 10-15 growth rings from the pith, after which it is approximately constant. C...