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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Salzer, Matthew W
• Kipfmueller, Kurt F

Titel

Reconstructed Temperature And Precipitation On A Millennial Timescale From Tree-Rings In The Southern Colorado Plateau, U.S.A

Ist Teil von

• Climatic change, 2005-06, Vol.70 (3), p.465-487

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• On the southern Colorado Plateau, three lower forest border tree-ring chronologies were used to reconstruct the temperature and precipitation regime over the past 1470 yr. The chronologies were derived from ponderosa pine Pinus ponderosa, pinon P. edulis, and Douglas-fir Pseudotsuga menziesii from elevations of approximately 1890 2290 m, and correlation and response function analyses were applied to investigate the climate tree growth relationship and the precipitation data. From the precipitation reconstruction calibration, the tree-ring chronologies successfully simulated both high- and low-frequency trends in the data, but the temperature reconstruction calibration showed that only decadal and multi-decadal scale variability in temperature could be captured. Indications were found of some correspondence between cool/dry and warm/wet intervals on the southern Colorado Plateau and extreme cool and warm periods reported in other regions.