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DOI: 10.25921/ghk3-gh05
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Cooper - Foxley Wood - QUSP - ITRDB BRIT067

description: We present an annually resolved reconstruction of spring-summer precipitation variability in East Anglia, UK (52-53N, 0-2E) for the period AD 900-2009. A continuous regional network of 723 living (AD 1590-2009) and historical (AD 781-1790) oak (Quercus sp.) ring-width series has been constructed and shown to display significant sensitivity to precipitation variability during the March-July season. The existence of a coherent common growth signal is demonstrated in oaks growing across East Anglia, containing evidence of near-decadal aperiodic variability in precipitation throughout the last millennium. Positive correlations are established between oak growth and precipitation variability across a large region of northwest Europe, although climate-growth relationships appear time transgressive with correlations significantly weakening during the early twentieth century. Examination of the relationship between oak growth, precipitation, and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), reveals no evidence that the NAO plays any significant role in the control of precipitation or tree growth in this region. Using Regional Curve Standardisation to preserve evidence of low-frequency growth variability in the East Anglian oak chronology, we produce a millennial length reconstruction that is capable of explaining 32-35% of annual-to-decadal regional-scale precipitation variance during 1901-2009. The full length reconstruction indicates statistically significant anomalous dry conditions during AD 900-1100 and circa-1800. An apparent prolonged wetter phase is estimated for the twelfth and thirteen centuries, whilst precipitation fluctuates between wetter and drier phases at near centennial timescales throughout the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. Above average precipitation reconstructed for the twenty-first century is comparable with that reproduced for the 1600s. The main estimated wet and dry phases reconstructed here appear largely coherent with an independent tree-ring reconstruction for southern-central England.
description: Cooper et al. 2013 E. Anglia hydroclimate. NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-08-22.
DOI: 10.25921/gnnr-6r03
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Wilson - Mt. Mye - PCGL - ITRDB CANA604

description: In north-western North America, the so-called divergence problem (DP) is expressed in tree ring width (RW) as an unstable temperature signal in recent decades. Maximum latewood density (MXD), from the same region, shows minimal evidence of DP. While MXD is a superior proxy for summer temperatures, there are very few long MXD records from North America. Latewood blue intensity (LWB) measures similar wood properties as MXD, expresses a similar climate response, is much cheaper to generate and thereby could provide the means to profoundly expand the extant network of temperature sensitive tree-ring (TR) chronologies in North America. In this study, LWB is measured from 17 white spruce sites (Picea glauca) in south-western Yukon to test whether LWB is immune to the temporal calibration instabilities observed in RW. A number of detrending methodologies are examined. The strongest calibration results for both RW and LWB are consistently returned using age-dependent spline (ADS) detrending within the signal-free (SF) framework. RW data calibrate best with June-July maximum temperatures (Tmax), explaining up to 28% variance, but all models fail validation and residual analysis. In comparison, LWB calibrates strongly (explaining 43-51% of May-August Tmax) and validates well. The reconstruction extends to 1337 CE, but uncertainties increase substantially before the early 17th century because of low replication. RW-, MXD- and LWB-based summer temperature reconstructions from the Gulf of Alaska, the Wrangell Mountains and Northern Alaska display good agreement at multi-decadal and higher frequencies, but the Yukon LWB reconstruction appears potentially limited in its expression of centennial-scale variation. While LWB improves dendroclimatic calibration, future work must focus on suitably preserved sub-fossil material to increase replication prior to 1650 CE.
description: NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2020-03-09.
DOI: 10.25921/gtys-nm70
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Upper Colorado River 1,244 Year Bias Corrected Flow Reconstructions

description: Bias correction, while widely used with climate-model output, is not typically applied to paleoclimatic reconstructions. While many reconstruction models have low average error, they still may contain bias, especially in the tails of distributions. Bias correction, used cautiously, can be a valuable procedure that alters interpretations of past events. Analyzing the iconic tree-ring reconstruction of Upper Colorado River flow, we find that its probability distribution is markedly different from that of observed flow. Using quantile mapping to bias correct the reconstruction, we analyze the full reconstructed record and two events in particular: the 1100s megadrought and the early 1600s pluvial. Overall, bias correction made the 1100s megadrought, the largest in the 1,200+ year record, even more extreme. After bias correction, the early 1600s pluvial marginally exceeds the early twentieth century pluvial in magnitude but not in duration. Overall, bias correction should be considered whenever paleoclimatic reconstructions are compared directly to observations.
description: Quantile mapping applied to the original Meko et al. (2007) reconstruction of Upper Colorado River flow at Lee's Ferry, Arizona (USA), to better evaluate the magnitude, duration, and intensity of extreme droughts and pluvials in the 1200+ year streamflow record
DOI: 10.25921/g0a3-hf26
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Pappas - Southern Old Black Spruce - PCMA - ITRDB CANA610

description: The boreal biome accounts for approximately one third of the terrestrial carbon (C) sink. However, estimates of its individual C pools remain uncertain. Here, focusing on the southern boreal forest, we quantified the magnitude and temporal dynamics of C allocation to aboveground tree growth at a mature black spruce (Picea mariana)-dominated forest stand in Saskatchewan, Canada. We reconstructed aboveground tree biomass increments (AGBi) using a biometric approach, i.e., species-specific allometry combined with forest stand characteristics and tree ring widths collected with a C-oriented sampling design. We explored the links between boreal tree growth and ecosystem C input by comparing AGBi with eddy-covariance-derived ecosystem C fluxes from 1999 to 2015 and we synthesized our findings with a refined meta-analysis of published values of boreal forest C use efficiency (CUE). Mean AGBi at the study site was decoupled from ecosystem C input and equal to 71 +/- 7 g C m-2 (1999-2015), which is only a minor fraction of gross ecosystem production (GEP; i.e., AGBi / GEP ~= 9 %). Moreover, C allocation to AGBi remained stable over time (AGBi / GEP; -0.0001 yr-1; p-value=0.775), contrary to significant trends in GEP (+5.72 g C m-2 yr-2; p-value=0.02) and CUE (-0.0041 yr-1, p-value=0.007). CUE was estimated as 0.50 +/- 0.03 at the study area and 0.41 +/- 0.12 across the reviewed boreal forests. These findings highlight the importance of belowground tree C investments, together with the substantial contribution of understory, ground cover and soil to the boreal forest C balance. Our quantitative insights into the dynamics of aboveground boreal tree C allocation offer additional observational constraints for terrestrial ecosystem models that are often biased in converting C input to biomass, and can guide forest-management strategies for mitigating carbon dioxide emissions.
description: The Southern Old Black Spruce (OBS) study site in Saskatchewan consists of a Picea mariana master ring width measurements collection (cana610.rwl), and ring width measurements at two sub-plots established in the field (cana610.plota.rwl and cana610.plotb.rwl). The subplot collections consist primarily of black spruce (core ID's 'PM'), but also contain a few samples of Larix laricina (core ID's 'LL'). NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2020-07-07.
DOI: 10.25921/gs4m-by36
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Pederson - Whitefish Mountain - LALY - ITRDB MT176

description: Tree ring data from the International Tree Ring Data Bank and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology archives.  Most data sets include raw treering measurements (most are annual ring width, with some collections of earlywood or latewood width or wood density), plus chronologies (standardized growth indices for a site compiled from multiple treering samples). Reconstructions of climate variables are included with some of these data sets.  Each data type is stored in a separate data file; the data type is coded into the file name. For details please see: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/treeinfo.htmll
description: NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2020-01-15.
DOI: 10.25921/gb11-ee54
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Common Era Evolution of Ocean Temperature

description: Proxy records show that before the onset of modern anthropogenic warming, globally coherent cooling occurred from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age. The long memory of the ocean suggests that these historical surface anomalies are associated with ongoing deep-ocean temperature adjustments. Combining an ocean model with modern and paleoceanographic data leads to a prediction that the deep Pacific is still adjusting to the cooling going into the Little Ice Age, whereas temperature trends in the surface ocean and deep Atlantic reflect modern warming. This prediction is corroborated by temperature changes identified between the HMS Challenger expedition of the 1870s and modern hydrography. The implied heat loss in the deep ocean since 1750 CE offsets one-fourth of the global heat gain in the upper ocean.
description: This data package includes an inversion of ocean data to reconstruct the evolution of Common Era (15-2015 CE) ocean temperature (labeled OPT-0015). It also includes the output of a model simulation initialized from equilibrium in the year 15 (EQ-0015) and 1750 (EQ-1750). Output includes both the potential temperature and potential temperature anomaly fields
DOI: 10.15468/dl.9evc4v
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 311 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "Country is Mexico",
 "TaxonKey is Totoaba macdonaldi"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 311 records from 16 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0020818-251009101135966/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.25921/gbbt-7459
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Gutiérrez - Windsor - PISY - ITRDB BRIT070

description: Aim

The aim was to decipher Europe‐wide spatio-temporal patterns of forest growth dynamics and their associations with carbon isotope fractionation processes inferred from tree rings as modulated by climate warming.
Location

Europe and North Africa (30-70 N, 10 W-35 E).
Time period

1901-2003.
Major taxa studied

Temperate and Euro-Siberian trees.
Methods

We characterize changes in the relationship between tree growth and carbon isotope fractionation over the 20th century using a European network consisting of 20 site chronologies. Using indexed tree-ring widths (TRWi), we assess shifts in the temporal coherence of radial growth across sites (synchrony) for five forest ecosystems (Atlantic, boreal, cold continental, Mediterranean and temperate). We also examine whether TRWi shows variable coupling with leaf-level gas exchange, inferred from indexed carbon isotope discrimination of tree-ring cellulose (Delta13Ci).

Results

We find spatial autocorrelation for TRWi and Delta13Ci extending over a maximum of 1,000 km among forest stands. However, growth synchrony is not uniform across Europe, but increases along a latitudinal gradient concurrent with decreasing temperature and evapotranspiration. Latitudinal relationships between TRWi and Delta13Ci (changing from negative to positive southwards) point to drought impairing carbon uptake via stomatal regulation for water saving occurring at forests below 60 N in continental Europe. An increase in forest growth synchrony over the 20th century together with increasingly positive relationships between TRWi and Delta13Ci indicate intensifying impacts of drought on tree performance. These effects are noticeable in drought-prone biomes (Mediterranean, temperate and cold continental).
Main conclusions

At the turn of this century, convergence in growth synchrony across European forest ecosystems is coupled with coordinated warming-induced effects of drought on leaf physiology and tree growth spreading northwards. Such a tendency towards exacerbated moisture-sensitive growth and physiology could override positive effects of enhanced leaf intercellular CO2 concentrations, possibly resulting in Europe‐wide declines of forest carbon gain in the coming decades.
description: NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2020-01-15.
DOI: 10.25921/gke6-6k70
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Sauchyn - Beazer - PIFL - ITRDB CANA569

description: Tree ring data from the International Tree Ring Data Bank and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology archives.  Most data sets include raw treering measurements (most are annual ring width, with some collections of earlywood or latewood width or wood density), plus chronologies (standardized growth indices for a site compiled from multiple treering samples). Reconstructions of climate variables are included with some of these data sets.  Each data type is stored in a separate data file; the data type is coded into the file name. For details please see: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/treeinfo.htmll
description: Upper Missouri River Basin Streamflow project NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2020-01-15.
DOI: 10.25921/gtcb-e158
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Astronomical Solution ZB18a 0-100 Ma for Earth's Orbital Eccentricity and Inclination

description: The periodic nature of Earth's orbit around the Sun produces cycles of insolation reflected in climate records. Conversely, these climate records can be used to infer changes in the dynamics of the Solar System, which is inherently chaotic and not always similarly periodic. A particular obstacle is the lack of well-defined planetary orbital constraints between 50 and 60 million years ago. Zeebe and Lourens found an astronomical solution for that interval showing that the Solar System experienced a specific resonance transition pattern. These data provide a measure of the duration of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.
description: Astronomical solution ZB18a for Earth's orbital eccentricity and inclination, 0-100 Ma. NOTE: We provide results from 100 to 0 Ma, but caution that the interval 100 to 58 Ma is unconstrained due to chaos.
DOI: 10.25921/gwap-7g20
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Woodhouse - Mount Hermon - PSME - ITRDB CO665

description: Tree ring data from the International Tree Ring Data Bank and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology archives.  Most data sets include raw treering measurements (most are annual ring width, with some collections of earlywood or latewood width or wood density), plus chronologies (standardized growth indices for a site compiled from multiple treering samples). Reconstructions of climate variables are included with some of these data sets.  Each data type is stored in a separate data file; the data type is coded into the file name. For details please see: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/treeinfo.htmll
description: Upper Missouri River Basin Streamflow project NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2020-01-15.
DOI: 10.25921/g5bm-n292
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Wise - Scout Mountain - PSME - ITRDB ID022

description: Tree ring data from the International Tree Ring Data Bank and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology archives.  Most data sets include raw treering measurements (most are annual ring width, with some collections of earlywood or latewood width or wood density), plus chronologies (standardized growth indices for a site compiled from multiple treering samples). Reconstructions of climate variables are included with some of these data sets.  Each data type is stored in a separate data file; the data type is coded into the file name. For details please see: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/treeinfo.htmll
description: Upper Missouri River Basin Streamflow project NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2020-01-15.
DOI: 10.25921/gn7w-y829
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Maxwell - Howland Forest - TSCA - ITRDB ME044

description: Determining the response of forest growth and productivity to climate variability is crucial for understanding and modeling forest carbon sequestration in mesic temperate forests. Most tree-ring analyses have used monthly climate data. Daily climate data may be more appropriate to use in the determination of tree-ring response to climate because cell division, enlargement, and thickening occur during discrete periods of the growing season. We analyze annual tree-ring width and d13C from Tsuga canadensis (1992-2012) at ten sites in the northeastern US to test the null hypothesis that tree-ring width and d13C respond similarly to critical climate periods using daily climate data and linear regression. There was a significant difference in the climate response of ring width and d13C. Precipitation predicted both d13C and ring width with the highest r2 and greatest level of significance overall. d13C integrated climate over longer periods of the year (and previous year) than ring width at most sites. d13C showed a more consistent seasonal signal across sites for each climate variable than ring width. Our work provides a new perspective on the response of annual tree growth and d13C to climatic variability that can inform ecosystem productivity, carbon cycle, and earth system models.
description: Part of New England Hemlock Transect, 10 sites along a 500+ km transect stretching from CT to ME NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2021-02-22.
DOI: 10.25921/gh6v-p419
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Allen - Litchfield National Park - CAIN - ITRDB AUSL058

description: An understanding of tropical hydroclimate variability, the associated drivers and how it is likely to change is a major scientific and societal challenge that is acutely hampered by short instrumental records. We present a 246-year tree-ring drought reconstruction of the Standardised Precipitation Evaporation Index (SPEI) for monsoonal northern Australia for the end of the wet season (March-May; MAM). This reconstruction extends the instrumental record back by 150 years. Around one third of total annual rainfall falls during MAM, making it a crucial component of the monsoonal cycle. MAM is also the season most impacted by the differential decay process of Central Pacific (as opposed to Western Pacific) El Nino events that are linked with dry conditions over northern and northwestern Australia more generally. Our reconstruction therefore provides an opportunity to consider how central Pacific variability has modulated MAM hydroclimate in Australia's monsoonal north over the past two and a half centuries. We found that MAM hydroclimate extremes in the region have a strong, but asymmetric relationship with central Pacific sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and ENSO indices. Extremely wet MAMs in monsoonal north Australia were associated with cooler SSTs, above average rainfall across much of Australia, and often coincided with La Nina events. The spatial relationship between dry extremes and Pacific SSTs during dry events was generally, but weakly, consistent with the SST signature of central Pacific El Nino events. The association between reconstructed dry extremes in the monsoonal north and dry conditions across the rest of Australia is also less extensive and weaker than for wet events. Results suggest that more extreme wet events in the Australian monsoonal north likely reflect cool central Pacific SSTs and later termination of the Australian monsoon. Consecutive years with extremely dry MAMs became more frequent over the latter part of the 20th Century while the probability of an extreme dry MAM followed by an extreme wet MAM the next year peaked in the mid 20th Century and has since declined.
description: Callitris intratropica ring-width data used for drought reconstruction, monsoonal north Australia. NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2020-11-18.
DOI: 10.25921/gn2t-ng50
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Hughes - Big Baldy Grove - SEGI - ITRDB CA711

description: The first dendroclimatic reconstruction of May 1 snow water equivalent (SWE) was developed from a Sequoiadendron giganteum regional tree-ring chronology network of 23 sites in central California for the period 90-2012 CE. The reconstruction is based on a significant relationship between May 1 SWE and tree-ring growth and shows climate variability from interannual to intercentennial time scales. A regression-based reconstruction equation explains up to 55% of the variance of SWE for 1940-2012. Split-sample validation supports our use of a reconstruction model based on the full period of reliable observational data (1940-2012). Thresholds for May 1 SWE low (15 percentile) and high (80 percentile) years were selected based on the exploratory scatterplots relationship between observed and reconstructed data for the period 1940-2012. The longest period of consecutive low-SWE years in the reconstruction is 2 years and the frequency of the lowest SWE years is highest during the period 710-809 CE. The longest high-SWE period, defined by consecutive wet years, is 3 years (558-560 CE). SWE and its reconstruction positively correlate with northeastern Pacific sea surface temperatures, the low-frequency variability of which may provide some predictive ability. Ultimately, the instrumental record and reconstruction suggest that unlike other sites in the region, twentieth century SWE variability in these Sequoia groves has remained within historical boundaries and relatively buffered from extremes and severe declines, though this is likely to change in coming decades with potentially negative effects on water availability for these trees.
description: NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2021-02-22.