DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13745070
title: Climate change has no apparent effect on debris flows in a supply-limited torrent

description: This file contains all tree-ring data, growth disturbance data, final debris-flow chronology data and map background data used in the paper "A supply-limited torrent that does not feel the heat of climate change"

Multetta-tree-ring raw data.rwl: Contains the raw measurement data from 761 tree-ring cores from 478 P. mugo trees.

Growth Disturbances-Original data.xlsx: Contains detailed information on tree-ring cores, growth disturbances and their intensity. Zone area refers to the zonation (1-4 corresponds to SI-SIV) of the sampled trees in the study area. Tree ID refers to the name of the tree-ring core or cross section/wedge. The third and fourth columns refer to Y/latitude and X/longitude. Last ring refers to the year of the outermost ring and is mostly 2020, which is the year when the fieldwrok was carried out. In some cases, tree-ring cores were broken or they were taken from dead trees, so the year of the outermost ring is not 2020. Oldest ring refers to the year of the innermost available ring. In the age incomplete column, a value of 1 indicates that the oldest ring measured is not the innermost ring of the tree center. Age refers to the age of the trees, which is equals to the value of the last ring minus the value of the oldest ring. The Comments column indicates the wedge and the cross section. From the tenth column, the numbers 2020, 2019, 2018...... refer to different years corresponding to tree rings. Here, all values including 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 indicate that there is a measured annual ring in the corresponding year. Blank indicates no data. GS refers to growth suppression. CW refers to compression wood. I refers to injury and CT refers to callus tissue. The number 0 means no growth disturbance. Numbers 1-4 mean intensity from weak to strong. For example, in the 2016 column, any core with '2GS' means the tree-ring showed growth suppression in 2016 and the corresponding intensity is 2. The growth disturbance (GDs) statistic is shown at the bottom, including all 1427 GDs, but GDs with intensity 1 were excluded from the analysis. Note: Samples mub74 and mul105 have data from both section and core, so 480 tree-ring series exist. 

Events-Final definition.xlsx: Contains all tree-ring based reconstructed debris-flow events for each zone (1-4 corresponds to SI-SIV) after careful examination of the spatial distribution of damaged trees. In the process of defining events, years were excluded from the analysis that (1) showed incoherent patterns of damaged trees (e.g. GDs evenly distributed on the cone, probably due to climatic extremes or insect pests), (2) were recorded in historical chronicles as snow avalanche years, or (3) were characterized by high mortality of P. mugo trees, as indicated by low tree-ring index (<1.5 average value) in the event cataster of the Canton of Grisons and the Swiss National Park (Bigler and Rigling, 2013).

Figures and the data used in figures are shown as below:

Information on tree location and age in fig.1D, GDs and sample depth (At) in fig.3A, reconstructed XXL events in fig.4A, GDs for affected regions (total of 16 regions) in fig.4B, GDs in different years for different zones in fig.S3 and GDs for different affected regions in fig.S4 is from the file: Growth Disturbances-Original data.xlsx.

Information on the 56 defined events in fig.3B and the reconstructed debris-flow events in fig.5A, 5B is from the file: Events-Final definition.xlsx. Here, 75 events occurred in 4 zones, but actually all events occurred in 56 different years.

The LiDAR DEM background in fig.1B, 1C and the hillshade view of the 2023 LiDAR DEM background in fig.S1, S2 are from Swisstopo (https://map.geo.admin.ch/).

The R code used for the repose time pattern analysis in fig.5A, 5B is originally from the previously published paper (Heiser, M. et al., 2023) and is available on GitLab at https://gitlab.com/Rexthor/repose-time-patterns.