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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":"2017-08-01","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-22493.xml","doi":null,"earliestYearBP":246,"earliestYearCE":1704,"entryId":"noaa-fire-22493","funding":[{"fundingAgency":"National Science Foundation","fundingGrant":"DEB 0815021"},{"fundingAgency":"American Center for Mongolian Studies","fundingGrant":null}],"investigators":"Hessl, A.E.; Ariya, U.; Brown, P.M.; Byambasuren, O.; Green, T.; Jacoby, G.C.; Sutherland, E.K.; Nachin, B.; Maxwell, R.S.; Pedersen, N.; De Grandpre, L. ; Saladyga, T.; Tardif, J.C.; Oyunbilig, E.; Ser-Od, B.; Biligbaatar, N.","mostRecentYearBP":-59,"mostRecentYearCE":2009,"onlineResourceLink":"https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/22493","originalSource":null,"publication":[{"abstract":"Rising temperatures are expected to increase wildfire activity in many regions of the world. Over the last 60 years in Mongolia, mean annual temperatures have increased ~2C and the recorded frequency and spatial extent of forest and steppe fires have increased. Few long records of fire history exist to place these recent changes in a historical perspective. The purpose of this paper is to report on fire history research from three sites in central Mongolia and to highlight the potential of this region as a test case for understanding the relationship between climate change, fire and lang use. We collected partial cross-sections from fire-scarred trees and stumps at each site using a targeted sampling approach. All three sites had long histories of fire rangeing from 280 to 450 years. Mean Weibull fire return intervals varied from 7 to 16 years. Fire scars at one protected-area site were nearly absent after 1760, likely owing to changes in land use. There is limited synchrony in fire occurrence across sites, suggesting that fire occurrence, at least at annual time scales, might be influenced by local processes (grazing, human ignitions, other land-use factors) as well as regional processes like climate. Additional data are being collected to further test hypotheses regarding climate change, land use and fire.\r\n","author":{"name":"Hessly, A.E.; Ariya, U.; Brown, P.; Byambasuren,O.; Green, T.; Jacoby,G.; Sutherland, E.K.; Nachin, B.; Maxwell, R.S.; Pederson, N.; De Grandpre, L.; Saladyga, T.; Tardif, J.C."},"citation":"Hessly, A.E.; Ariya, U.; Brown, P.; Byambasuren,O.; Green, T.; Jacoby,G.; Sutherland, E.K.; Nachin, B.; Maxwell, R.S.; Pederson, N.; De Grandpre, L.; Saladyga, T.; Tardif, J.C. 2012. Reconstructing fire history in central Mongolia from tree-rings. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 21, 86-92. 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