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These links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of this Department of Commerce/NOAA Web site.","country":"USA","dataCenterUrl":"https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data","email":"paleo@noaa.gov","fax":"303-497-6513","longName":"National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce ","phone":"303-497-6280","postalCode":"80305-3328","shortName":"DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI","state":"CO","type":"CONTACT INFORMATION"},"contributionDate":"2010-03-18","dataPublisher":"NOAA","dataType":"FIRE HISTORY","dataTypeInformation":"https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data/datasets/fire-history","difMetadataLink":"http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/metadata/published/paleo/dif/xml/noaa-fire-10548.xml","doi":null,"earliestYearBP":790,"earliestYearCE":1160,"entryId":"noaa-fire-10548","funding":[{"fundingAgency":"USDA Forest Service","fundingGrant":"04‐JV‐11272162‐407"},{"fundingAgency":"USA Joint Fire Science Program","fundingGrant":null}],"investigators":"Taylor, A.H.; Skinner, C.N.; Trouet, V.; Wahl, E.R.; Stephens, S.L.","mostRecentYearBP":-50,"mostRecentYearCE":2000,"onlineResourceLink":"https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/10548","originalSource":null,"publication":[{"abstract":"Despite a strong anthropogenic fingerprint on 20th Century wildland fire activity in the American West, climate remains a main driver. A better understanding of the spatiotemporal variability in fire-climate interactions is therefore crucial for fire management. Here, we present annually resolved, tree-ring based fire records for four regions in the American West that extend back to 1400 CE. In all regions, years with high fire activity were characterized by widespread yet regionally distinct summer droughts. Overall fire activity was high in late Medieval times, when much of the American West was affected by mega-droughts. A distinct decline in fire activity in the late 16th Century corresponds with anomalously low temperatures during the Little Ice Age and a decline in Native American fire use. The high spatiotemporal resolution of our fire record discloses a time-frequency dependent climatic influence on wildfire regimes in the American West that needs to be accounted for in fire models.","author":null,"citation":"Trouet, V., A. H. Taylor, E. R. Wahl, C. N. Skinner, and S. L. Stephens. 2010. Fire-climate interactions in the American West since 1400 CE, Geophysical Research Letters 37, L04702, doi:10.1029/2009GL041695.\n","edition":null,"identifier":{"id":"10.1029/2009GL041695","type":"doi","url":"http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009GL041695"},"issue":null,"journal":"Geophysical Research Letters","pages":null,"pubRank":"1","pubYear":2010,"reportNumber":null,"title":"Fire-climate interactions in the American West since 1400 CE","type":"publication","volume":null}],"reconstruction":"N","scienceKeywords":["western yellow pine","PSME","ponderosa pine","Pinus ponderosa Douglas ex C. Lawson","Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco","Calocedrus decurrens (Torr.) 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These records were compiled from data \nfrom the following original sites:\nSite Name, Latitude (degrees N), Longitude (degrees W), Principal Investigator\nAdin Pass,41.34,120.99,Skinner\nBluff Lake,41.34,122.55,Skinner\nCedar Basin,41.22,122.49,Skinner\nCoggins Saddle,42.15,122.69,Skinner\nCrater Creek,41.38,122.58,Skinner\nDog Valley,39.59,120.03,Taylor\nEl Capitan,37.73,119.76,Taylor\nGoosenest,41.53,121.85,Skinner\nGrayback,42.14,123.45,Skinner\nHayfork,40.5,123.2,Taylor\nLake Tahoe Basin,39.05,119.93,Taylor\nProspect Peak,42.56,121.69,Taylor\nStampede Reservoir,39.45,120.13,Taylor","version":"1.0","xmlId":"9212"}