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    <Dataset_Title>Large Scale Climate Reconstructions from Tree-Rings</Dataset_Title>
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    <Paleo_Start_Date>1602 AD</Paleo_Start_Date>
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  <Use_Constraints>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.</Use_Constraints>
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      <Short_Name>DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI</Short_Name>
      <Long_Name>National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce </Long_Name>
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      <Role>DATA Center Contact</Role>
      <First_Name>Bruce</First_Name>
      <Last_Name>Bauer</Last_Name>
      <Email>bruce.a.bauer@noaa.gov</Email>
      <Email>paleo@noaa.gov</Email>
      <Phone>303-497-6280</Phone>
      <Fax>303-497-6513</Fax>
      <Contact_Address>
        <Address>325 Broadway, E/NE31</Address>
        <City>Boulder</City>
        <Province_or_State>CO</Province_or_State>
        <Postal_Code>80305-3328</Postal_Code>
        <Country>USA</Country>
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  <Reference/>
  <Summary>
    <Abstract>Records of past temperature, precipitation, and other climate variables derived from paleoclimate proxies.  Parameter keywords describe what was measured in this data set.  Additional summary information can be found in the abstracts of papers listed in the data set citations. 
          STUDY NOTES: This data set contains files of reconstructed temperature and 
precipitation data, derived from tree ring data by Dr. Harold 
Fritts of the University of Arizona.  The reconstructions were 
made for a network of weather observation stations in the 
United States.  For a discussion of the methodology of climate 
reconstructions, and potential limits in their application, 
please consult the original reference.  The data are accompanied 
by DOS display software.  The DIFMAP program opens the data files 
and creates maps of reconstructed temperature or precipitation 
patterns, either on screen or as a printer file. The program 
SERIES displays reconstructed values for a single location, 
as a graph or a numerical table.  Documentation for the programs 
is in the files MANUAL.DOC and SERIES.DOC.  

Original Reference:
H.C. Fritts, 1991, RECONSTRUCTING LARGE-SCALE CLIMATIC PATTERNS 
FROM TREE RING DATA: A DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS, University of Arizona Press,
Tucson, AZ, USA.  ISBN 0-8165-1218-3</Abstract>
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      <Type>GET DATA</Type>
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