noaa-fire-14411 Barrett fire data from Minnesota Plateau Lake - IMPD USMPL001 Barrett, C.M.; Kelly, R.F.; Higuera, P.E.; Hu, F.S. Barrett fire data from Minnesota Plateau Lake - IMPD USMPL001 2013-04-01 NCDC-Paleoclimatology ONLINE Files Pending https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/14411 Investigator C.M. Barrett Investigator R.F. Kelly Investigator P.E. Higuera Investigator F.S. Hu earth science paleoclimate fire history|paleolimnology depth at sample start,null,null,centimeter,null,fire history|paleolimnology,null,null,N,null earth science paleoclimate fire history|paleolimnology depth at sample end,null,null,centimeter,null,fire history|paleolimnology,null,null,N,null earth science paleoclimate fire history|paleolimnology charcoal,sediment,null,count,null,fire history|paleolimnology,null,null,N,> 180 um earth science paleoclimate fire history|paleolimnology age at sample end,null,null,calendar year before present,null,fire history|paleolimnology,null,null,N,null earth science paleoclimate fire history|paleolimnology age at sample start,null,null,calendar year before present,null,fire history|paleolimnology,null,null,N,null earth science paleoclimate fire history|paleolimnology volume,wet sediment,null,milliliter,null,fire history|paleolimnology,null,null,N,null earth science paleoclimate fire history charcoal sediment geoscientificInformation Arctic Little Ice Age (LIA) Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) temperature 7013 cal yr BP -56 cal yr BP Complete 62.541794 62.541794 -146.238431 -146.238431 827 827 Continent North America United States Of America Alaska Minnesota Plateau Lake>LATITUDE 62.541794>LONGITUDE -146.238431 None Please cite original publication, online resource, dataset and publication DOIs (where available), and date accessed when using downloaded data. If there is no publication information, please cite investigator, title, online resource, and date accessed. The appearance of external links associated with a dataset does not constitute endorsement by the Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of external Web sites or the information, products or services contained therein. For other than authorized activities, the Department of Commerce/NOAA does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. These links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of this Department of Commerce/NOAA Web site. English DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data DATA Center Contact Bruce Bauer bruce.a.bauer@noaa.gov paleo@noaa.gov 303-497-6280 303-497-6513

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Boulder CO 80305-3328 USA online ASCII C. M. Barrett, R. F. Kelly, P.E. Higuera, and F.S. Hu. 2013. Climatic and land-cover influences on the spatiotemporal dynamics of Holocene boreal fire regimes. Ecology 94(2): 389-402.

Although recent climatic warming has markedly increased fire activity in many biomes, this trend is spatially heterogeneous. Understanding the patterns and controls of this heterogeneity is important for anticipating future fire-regime shifts at regional scales and for developing land-management policies. To assess climatic and land-cover controls on boreal-forest fire regimes, we conducted macroscopic-charcoal analysis of sediment cores and GIS analysis of landscape variation in south-central Alaska. Results reveal that fire occurrence was highly variable both spatially and temporally over the past seven millennia. At two of four sites, the lack of distinct charcoal peaks throughout much of this period suggests the absence of large local fires, attributed to abundant water bodies in the surrounding landscape that have likely functioned as firebreaks to limit fire spread. In contrast, distinct charcoal peaks suggest numerous local fires at the other two sites where water bodies are less abundant. In periods of the records where robust charcoal peaks allow identification of local fire events over the past 7000 years, fire return intervals varied widely with a range of 138-453 years. Furthermore, the temporal trajectories of local-fire frequency differed greatly among sites and were statistically independent. Inferred biomass burning and mean summer temperature in the region were not significantly correlated prior to 3000 years ago, but became positively related subsequently with varying correlation strengths (r = 0.40-0.66; p = 0.001-0.040 for 2000-yr moving windows). Climatic variability associated with the Medieval Climate Anomaly and the Little Ice Age, along with the expansion of flammable Picea mariana forests, probably have heightened the sensitivity of forest burning to summer-temperature variations over the past three millennia. These results elucidate the patterns and controls of boreal fire-regime dynamics over a broad range of spatiotemporal scales, and imply that anthropogenic climatic warming and associated land-cover changes, in particular lake drying, will interact to affect boreal-forest burning over the coming decades.

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