noaa-recon-12896 East Anglia 1,100 Year Spring-Summer Precipitation Reconstruction Cooper, R.J.; Melvin, T.M.; Tyers, I.; Wilson, R.J.S.; Briffa, K.R. East Anglia 1,100 Year Spring-Summer Precipitation Reconstruction 2012-04-11 NCDC-Paleoclimatology ONLINE Files Pending https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/12896 Investigator R.J. Cooper Investigator T.M. Melvin Investigator I. Tyers Investigator R.J.S. Wilson Investigator K.R. Briffa 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 precipitation,ring width,two standard error upper bound,millimeter,Mar-Jul,climate reconstructions|tree ring,smoothed,regression analysis,N,smooth: 50 year low pass; calibration data set: CRU TS 3.1; standard error of chronology; simple linear regression earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|tree ring precipitation,ring width,two standard error lower bound,millimeter,Mar-Jul,climate reconstructions|tree ring,smoothed,regression analysis,N,smooth: 50 year low pass; calibration data set: CRU TS 3.1; standard error of chronology; simple linear regression earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|tree ring precipitation,ring width,two standard error lower bound,millimeter,Mar-Jul,climate reconstructions|tree ring,smoothed,regression analysis,N,smooth: 50 year low pass; calibration data set: CRU TS 3.1; standard error of chronology and regression; simple linear regression earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|tree ring precipitation,ring width,two standard error upper bound,millimeter,Mar-Jul,climate reconstructions|tree ring,smoothed,regression analysis,N,smooth: 50 year low pass; calibration data set: CRU TS 3.1; standard error of chronology and regression; simple linear regression earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|tree ring precipitation,ring width,null,millimeter,Mar-Jul,climate reconstructions|tree ring,smoothed,regression analysis,N,smooth: 50 year low pass; calibration data set: CRU TS 3.1; simple linear regression earth science paleoclimate climate reconstructions|tree ring precipitation,ring width,null,millimeter,Mar-Jul,climate reconstructions|tree ring,null,regression analysis,N,calibration data set: CRU TS 3.1; simple linear regression earth science paleoclimate reconstructions precipitation geoscientificInformation Precipitation Reconstruction hydrology 900 AD 2009 AD 1050 cal yr BP -59 cal yr BP Complete 52 53 0 2 Continent Europe Northern Europe British Isles United Kingdom East Anglia>LATITUDE >LONGITUDE 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 Richard J. Cooper, Thomas M. Melvin, Ian Tyers, Rob J.S. Wilson, Keith R. Briffa 2013 Climate Dynamics 40 3-4 1019-1039 10.1007/s00382-012-1328-x https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00382-012-1328-x

We present an annually resolved reconstruction of spring-summer precipitation variability in East Anglia, UK (52-53N, 0-2E) for the period AD 900-2009. A continuous regional network of 723 living (AD 1590-2009) and historical (AD 781-1790) oak (Quercus sp.) ring-width series has been constructed and shown to display significant sensitivity to precipitation variability during the March-July season. The existence of a coherent common growth signal is demonstrated in oaks growing across East Anglia, containing evidence of near-decadal aperiodic variability in precipitation throughout the last millennium. Positive correlations are established between oak growth and precipitation variability across a large region of northwest Europe, although climate-growth relationships appear time transgressive with correlations significantly weakening during the early twentieth century. Examination of the relationship between oak growth, precipitation, and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), reveals no evidence that the NAO plays any significant role in the control of precipitation or tree growth in this region. Using Regional Curve Standardisation to preserve evidence of low-frequency growth variability in the East Anglian oak chronology, we produce a millennial length reconstruction that is capable of explaining 32-35% of annual-to-decadal regional-scale precipitation variance during 1901-2009. The full length reconstruction indicates statistically significant anomalous dry conditions during AD 900-1100 and circa-1800. An apparent prolonged wetter phase is estimated for the twelfth and thirteen centuries, whilst precipitation fluctuates between wetter and drier phases at near centennial timescales throughout the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. Above average precipitation reconstructed for the twenty-first century is comparable with that reproduced for the 1600s. The main estimated wet and dry phases reconstructed here appear largely coherent with an independent tree-ring reconstruction for southern-central England. STUDY NOTES: A continuous 1,100-year long oak ring-width chronology has been developed from 310 living and 413 historical tree ring samples for East Anglia (52-53°N, 0-2°E). This has been used to reconstruct precipitation for the March-July (MAMJJ) season. Data include MAMJJ annual precipitation values (mm) with standard errors (mm) of chronology and regression.

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