Dendroclimatic Studies E-Book

Rosanne D'Arrigo

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Serie: Special Publications
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 135

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

A top priority in climate research is obtaining broad-extent and long-term data to support analyses of historical patterns and trends, and for model development and evaluation. Along with directly measured climate data from the present and recent past, it is important to obtain estimates of long past climate variations spanning multiple centuries and millennia. Dendroclimatic Studies at the North American Tree Line presents an overview of the current state of dendroclimatology, its contributions over the past few decades, and its future potential. The material included is not useful not only to those who generate tree-ring records of past climate-dendroclimatologists, but also to users of their results-climatologists, hydrologists, ecologists and archeologists. In summary, this book: * Sheds light on recent and future climate trends by assessing long term past climatic variations from tree rings * Is a timely coverage of a crucial topic in climate science portraying recent warming trends which are of serious concern today * Features well-reputed scientists highlighting new advanced methodologies to reconstruct past climate change * Models the tree growth environmental response

Leseprobe

CONTENTS

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

1.1. Overview

1.2. Basic Tree-Ring Principles

1.3. Polar Amplification of Global Warming and Impacts on Forests

1.4 “Northern Archive” Synthesis

2. Tree-Ring Investigations at Northern Latitudes

2.1. Initial Studies

2.2. Site Selection

2.3. Tree-Ring Parameters and Processing: Ring Width and Maximum Latewood Density

3. Selected Local to Regional TRL-LDEO Northern Tree-Ring Studies

4. The Broader Context of Northern Dendroclimatic Studies

4.1. North America

4.2. Eurasia

4.3. Tree-Ring Chronology Networks

5. Temperature Reconstructions for the Northern Hemisphere

5.1. Initial Attempts

5.2. Evolution of NH Temperature Reconstructions

5.3. Reconstructed NH Temperature Trends

5.4. Standardization of NH Tree-Ring Temperature Reconstructions

6. Tree Growth Issues in the Anthropogenic Era

6.1. CO2 Fertilization

6.2. The Divergence Problem

7. Conclusions and Future Challenges

Glossary

References Cited

References

Core TRL-LDEO Publications on Northern Forests

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Related Reports

Supplementary Images

Index

Eula

List of Tables

Chapter 5

Table 5.1 Detailed information for regional composite chronologies used to reconstruct extratropical NH temperatures, based on living and subfossil wood material.

Table 5.2 Coldest and warmest decades (anomaly values in parentheses, degrees C) calculated over 1000–1979 for each NH temperature reconstruction after they have been scaled (w.r.t. 1856–1978) to NH land only (20–90°N) mean annual temperatures. The difference between these two values is defined as the amplitude. Adapted from D’Arrigo et al. (2006).