Cook - Sheshan Dangam District - PCSM - ITRDB PAKI037 Cook, E.R.; Palmer, J.G.; Ahmed, M. Cook, E.R. Palmer, J.G. Ahmed, M. hydrology PCSM Picea smithiana (Wall.) Boiss. 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units are 0.01 mm if end-of-series marker is 999 and 0.001 mm if end-of-series marker is -9999) earth science/paleoclimate/tree ring (total ring width,null,null,millimeter,null,tree ring,null,null,N,Tree ID: SHEP151; units are 0.01 mm if end-of-series marker is 999 and 0.001 mm if end-of-series marker is -9999) earth science/paleoclimate/tree-ring (Sheshan Dangam District>LATITUDE 35.0333>LONGITUDE 71.5333) Water wars are a prospect in coming years as nations struggle with the effects of climate change, growing water demand, and declining resources. The Indus River supplies water to the world's largest contiguous irrigation system generating 90% of the food production in Pakistan as well as 13 gigawatts of hydroelectricity. Because any gap between water supply and demand has major and far-reaching ramifications, an understanding of natural flow variability is vital - especially when only 47 years of instrumental record is available. A network of tree-ring sites from the Upper Indus Basin (UIB) was used to reconstruct river discharge levels covering the period AD 1452-2008. Novel methods tree-ring detrending based on the 'signal free' method and estimation of reconstruction uncertainty based on the 'maximum entropy bootstrap' are used. This 557-year record displays strong inter-decadal fluctuations that could not have been deduced from the short gauged record. Recent discharge levels are high but not statistically unprecedented and are likely to be associated with increased meltwater from unusually heavy prior winter snowfall. A period of prolonged below-average discharge is indicated during AD 1572-1683. This unprecedented low-flow period may have been a time of persistently below-average winter snowfall and provides a warning for future water resource planning. Our reconstruction thus helps fill the hydrological information vacuum for modeling the Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalayan region and is useful for planning future development of UIB water resources in an effort to close Pakistan's "water gap". Finally, the river discharge reconstruction provides the basis for comparing past, present, and future hydrologic changes, which will be crucial for detection and attribution of hydroclimate change in the Upper Indus Basin. STUDY NOTES: Purpose of Collection: # Climatology - precipitation NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-04-08. NCDC-Paleoclimatology https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data - Bauer Bruce Investigator : Cook, E.R. Investigator : Palmer, J.G. Investigator : Ahmed, M. 2013-07-20 ONLINE Files online, ASCII https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/15334 https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/correlation-stats/paki037.txt https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/asia/paki037.rwl https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/asia/paki037-noaa.rwl https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/correlation-stats/paki037.txt https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/asia/paki037.rwl https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/asia/paki037-noaa.rwl English https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/15334 https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/correlation-stats/paki037.txt https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/asia/paki037.rwl https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/asia/paki037-noaa.rwl Edward R. Cook, Jonathan G. Palmer, Moinuddin Ahmed, Connie A. Woodhouse, Pavla Fenwick, Muhammad Usama Zafar, Muhammad Wahab, Nasrullah Khan2013Five centuries of Upper Indus River flow from tree ringsJournal of Hydrology486365-37510.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.02.004http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169413001066 START YEAR: 1663 AD * END YEAR: 2006 AD 71.5333 35.0333 71.5333 35.0333