noaa-recon-11175
Mesoamerican 1238 Year June PDSI Reconstructions
Stahle, D.W.; Diaz, J.V.; Burnette, D.J.; Paredes, J.C.; Heim, R.R.; Fye, F.K.; Acuña Soto, R.; Therrell, M.D.; Cleaveland, M.K.; Stahle, D.K.
Mesoamerican 1238 Year June PDSI Reconstructions
2011-05-27
NCDC-Paleoclimatology
ONLINE Files
Pending
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/11175
Investigator
D.W.
Stahle
Investigator
J.V.
Diaz
Investigator
D.J.
Burnette
Investigator
J.C.
Paredes
Investigator
R.R.
Heim
Investigator
F.K.
Fye
Investigator
R.
Acuña Soto
Investigator
M.D.
Therrell
Investigator
M.K.
Cleaveland
Investigator
D.K.
Stahle
earth science
paleoclimate
climate reconstructions|tree ring
age,null,null,year Common Era,null,climate reconstructions|tree ring,null,null,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
climate reconstructions|tree ring
Palmer Drought Severity Index,null,null,dimensionless,Jun,climate reconstructions|tree ring,null,null,N,AR(2) persistence structure of the predictand was added back in and the variance lost in regression was restored.
earth science
paleoclimate
instrumental
Palmer Drought Severity Index,null,null,dimensionless,Jun,instrumental,whitened,null,N,whitened' = serially random residuals from an autoregressive model of order p fit to the original time series
earth science
paleoclimate
tree ring
tree ring standardized growth index,null,null,null,null,tree ring,composited,standard,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
instrumental
Palmer Drought Severity Index,null,null,dimensionless,Jun,instrumental,null,null,N,"extracted for 84 grid locations in central Mexico from the R.R. Heim, Jr., half degree monthly PDSI data set for North America."
earth science
paleoclimate
climate reconstructions|tree ring
Palmer Drought Severity Index,null,null,dimensionless,Jun,climate reconstructions|tree ring,whitened,null,N,based on a calibration between the serially random predictor and predictand time series
earth science
paleoclimate
climate reconstructions|tree ring
Palmer Drought Severity Index,null,null,dimensionless,Jun,climate reconstructions|tree ring,smoothed,null,N,30-year spline fit
earth science
paleoclimate
tree ring
tree ring standardized growth index,null,null,null,null,tree ring,composited,null,N,"whitened using the coefficients of the AR(2) model calculated from the instrumental June PDSI, 1973-2003"
earth science
paleoclimate
reconstructions
ground water
geoscientificInformation
Palmer Drought Index Reconstruction
drought
771 AD
2008 AD
1179 cal yr BP
-58 cal yr BP
Complete
20.35
20.35
-100.1167
-100.1167
1970
1970
Continent
North America
Mexico
Queretaro de Arteaga
Barranca de Amealco>LATITUDE 20.35>LONGITUDE -100.1167
None
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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
325 Broadway, E/NE31
Boulder
CO
80305-3328
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online
ASCII
Stahle, D.W., J.V. Diaz, D.J. Burnette, J.C. Paredes,
R.R. Heim Jr., F.K. Fye, R. Acuna Soto, M.D. Therrell,
M.K. Cleaveland, and D.K. Stahle. 2011.
Major Mesoamerican droughts of the past millennium.
Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 38, L05703,
doi:10.1029/2010GL046472.
Ancient Montezuma baldcypress (Taxodium mucronatum) trees
found in Barranca de Amealco, Queretaro, have been used to
develop a 1,238-year treering chronology that is correlated
with precipitation, temperature, drought indices, and crop
yields in central Mexico. This chronology has been used to
reconstruct the spring-early summer soil moisture balance
over the heartland of the Mesoamerican cultural province,
and is the first exactly dated, annually resolved paleoclimatic
record for Mesoamerica spanning the Late Classic, Post Classic,
Colonial, and modern eras. The reconstruction indicates that
the Terminal Classic drought extended into central Mexico,
supporting other sedimentary and speleothem evidence for this
early 10th century drought in Mesoamerica. The reconstruction
also documents severe and sustained drought during the decline
of the Toltec state (1149-1167) and during the Spanish conquest
of the Aztec state (1514-1539), providing a new precisely dated
climate framework for Mesoamerican cultural change.
STUDY NOTES: Tree ring reconstruction of June Palmer Drought Severity Index
(PDSI) for central Mexico for the past 1238 years. Also archived
are the instrumental June PDSI, extracted for 84 grid locations
in central Mexico from the R.R. Heim, Jr., half degree monthly
PDSI data set for North America, the standard tree-ring
chronology from Barranca de Amealco, and the calibration
and verification statistics for the whitened and final
reddened reconstructions. The gridpoints range from
16.8°N to 21.3°N, and from 96.3°W to 102.3°W.
GET DATA
https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/reconstructions/mexico/mesoamerica2011pdsi.txt
GET DATA
https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/reconstructions/mexico/mesoamerica2011pdsi.xls
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