Characteristics of tree-ring chronology ofPinus koraiensisand its relationship with climate factors on the northern slope of Changbai Mountain

ABSTRACTAdvances in accelerator mass spectrometry have resulted in an unprecedented amount of new high-precision radiocarbon (14C) -dates, some of which will redefine the international 14C calibration curves (IntCal and SHCal). Often these datasets are unaccompanied by detailed quality insurances in place at the laboratory, questioning whether the 14C structure is real, a result of a laboratory variation or measurement-scatter. A handful of intercomparison studies attempt to elucidate laboratory offsets but may fail to identify measurement-scatter and are often financially constrained. Here we introduce a protocol, called Quality Dating, implemented at ETH-Zürich to ensure reproducible and accurate high-precision 14C-dates. The protocol highlights the importance of the continuous measurements and evaluation of blanks, standards, references and replicates. This protocol is tested on an absolutely dated German Late Glacial tree-ring chronology, part of which is intercompared with the Curt Engelhorn-Center for Archaeometry, Mannheim, Germany (CEZA). The combined dataset contains 170 highly resolved, highly precise 14C-dates that supplement three decadal dates spanning 280 cal. years in IntCal, and provides detailed 14C structure for this interval.

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Tree-Ring Chronology in American Prehistory

Nature ◽

10.1038/138315a0 ◽

1936 ◽

Vol 138 (3486) ◽

pp. 315-316

Keyword(s):

Tree Ring ◽

Tree Ring Chronology

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The 443-Year Tree-Ring Chronology for the Scots Pine from Upper Silesia (Poland) as A Dating Tool and Climate Proxy

Geochronometria ◽

10.1515/geochr-2015-0005 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Magdalena Opała

Keyword(s):

Tree Ring ◽

Scots Pine ◽

Meteorological Data ◽

Ring Width ◽

Tree Ring Chronology ◽

Series Length ◽

Upper Silesia ◽

Living Tree ◽

Absolute Dating ◽

The Mean

Abstract An annually resolved and absolutely dated ring-width chronology spanning 443 years has been constructed using the historical and living-tree Scots pine samples from the Upper Silesia, south of Poland. The constructed regional chronology, based on six object chronologies, covers the period of 1568-2010. It is composed of 178 wood samples with the mean correlation of 0.51, mean series length of 104 years and mean EPS of 0.85. In total, 65 extreme years were distinguished. Their inde-pendent verification, based on the historical and meteorological data, showed significant correlation with the exceptionally cold/mild winters as well as severe droughts. The comparison of the extreme years with the other Polish pine chronologies showed similarities in the years with the anomalous winter conditions. Some extreme years can be associated with the exceptional pluvial conditions; these years are common in the Central European hydroclimatic tree-ring records. The construction of this regional pine chronology enables for the absolute dating of many architectural monuments from investigated region. The application of the new chronology for the dating of local wood can support interpretations of changes in the environment of the Upper Silesian region. In the future it can also be used as the basis for climate reconstruction.

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Paleo-hydrologic reconstruction of 400 years of past flows at a weekly time step for major rivers of Western Canada

10.5194/essd-2019-57 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Andrew R. Slaughter ◽

Saman Razavi

Keyword(s):

Time Series ◽

Water Resources ◽

Tree Ring ◽

Flow Distribution ◽

Future Climate Change ◽

Western Canada ◽

Tree Ring Chronology ◽

Time Step ◽

Water Resources Systems ◽

Tree Ring Data

Abstract. The assumption of stationarity in water resources no longer holds, particularly within the context of future climate change. Plausible scenarios of flows that fluctuate outside the envelope of variability of the gauging data are required to assess the robustness of water resources systems to future conditions. This study presents a novel method of generating weekly-time-step flows based on tree-ring chronology data. Specifically, this method addresses two long-standing challenges with paleo-reconstruction: (1) the typically limited predictive power of tree-ring data at the annual and sub-annual scale, and (2) the inflated short-term persistence in tree-ring time series and improper use of prewhitening. Unlike the conventional approach, this method establishes relationships between tree-ring chronologies and naturalised flow at a biennial scale to preserve persistence properties and variability of hydrological time series. Biennial flow reconstructions are further disaggregated to weekly, according to the weekly flow distribution of reference two-year instrumental periods, identified as periods with broadly similar tree-ring properties to that of every two-year paleo-period. The Saskatchewan River Basin (SaskRB), a major river in Western Canada, is selected as a study area, and weekly flows in its four major tributaries are extended back to the year 1600. The study shows that the reconstructed flows properly preserve the statistical properties of the reference flows, particularly, short- to long-term persistence and the structure of variability across time scales. An ensemble approach is presented to represent the uncertainty inherent in the statistical relationships and disaggregation method. The ensemble of reconstructed weekly flows are publically available for download from https://doi.org/10.20383/101.0139 (Slaughter and Razavi, 2019).

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Construction and analysis of 1104-year tree-ring chronology Tarys the Altai-Sayan region (South-eastern Tuva)

Journal of Siberian Federal University Biology ◽

10.17516/1997-1389-0160 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 368-377 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Oydupaa O.Ch. ◽

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Barinov V.V. ◽

Serdobov V.N. ◽

Myglan Vladimir S. ◽

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Keyword(s):

Tree Ring ◽

Tree Ring Chronology ◽

South Eastern ◽

Sayan Region

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An 854-Year Tree-Ring Chronology of Scots Pine for South-West Finland

Studia Quaternaria ◽

10.2478/squa-2014-0006 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 61-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Samuli Helama ◽

Jari Holopainen ◽

Mauri Timonen ◽

Kari Mielikäinen

Keyword(s):

Tree Ring ◽

Ring Width ◽

Summer Precipitation ◽

Total Sample ◽

Early Summer ◽

The South ◽

Tree Ring Chronology ◽

The North ◽

South West ◽

The North Atlantic Oscillation

Abstract A near-millennial tree-ring chronology (AD 1147-2000) is presented for south-west Finland and analyzed using dendroclimatic methods. This is a composite chronology comprising samples both from standing pine trees (Pinus sylvestris L.) and subfossil trunks as recovered from the lake sediments, with a total sample size of 189 tree-ring sample series. The series were dendrochronologically cross-dated to exact calendar years to portray variability in tree-ring widths on inter-annual and longer scales. Al though the studied chronology correlates statistically significantly with other long tree-ring width chronologies from Finland over their common period (AD 1520-1993), the south-west chronology did not exhibit similarly strong mid-summer temperature or spring/early-summer precipitation signals in comparison to published chronologies. On the other hand, the south-west chronology showed highest correlations to the North Atlantic Oscillation indices in winter/spring months, this association following a dendroclimatic feature common to pine chronologies over the region and adjacent areas. Paleoclimatic comparison showed that tree-rings had varied similarly to central European spring temperatures. It is postulated that the collected and dated tree-ring material could be studied for wood surface reflectance (blue channel light intensity) and stable isotopes, which both have recently shown to correlate notably well with summer temperatures.

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A 434-year tree-ring chronology of spruce (Picea abies) with indications of Estonian precipitation

Dendrobiology ◽

10.12657/denbio.073.015 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 73 ◽

pp. 145-152 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Alar Läänelaid ◽

Samuli Helama ◽

Dieter Eckstein

Keyword(s):

Picea Abies ◽

Tree Ring ◽

Tree Ring Chronology

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Potential for a New Multimillennial Tree-Ring Chronology from Subfossil Balkan River Oaks

Radiocarbon ◽

10.1017/s0033822200050359 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 56 (04) ◽

pp. S51-S59

Author(s):

Charlotte L. Pearson ◽

Tomasz Ważny ◽

Peter I. Kuniholm ◽

Katarina Botić ◽

Aleksandar Durman ◽

...

Keyword(s):

High Resolution ◽

Central Europe ◽

Tree Ring ◽

Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽

Mediterranean Region ◽

Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction ◽

Tree Ring Chronology ◽

Measurement Series ◽

Balkan Region

A total of 272 oak (Quercussp.) samples have been collected from large subfossil trees dredged from sediment deposited by the Sava and various tributary rivers in the Zagreb region of northwestern Croatia, and in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Measurement series of tree-ring widths from these samples produced 12 groups, totaling 3456 years of floating tree-ring chronologies spread through the last ca. 8000 years. This work represents the first step in creating a new, high-resolution resource for dating and paleoenvironmental reconstruction in the Balkan region and potentially a means to bridge between the floating tree-ring chronologies of the wider Mediterranean region and the continuous long chronologies from central Europe.

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