{"NOAAStudyId":"1003410","contactInfo":{"address":"325 Broadway, E/NE31","city":"Boulder","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.","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":"2013-05-15","dataPublisher":"NOAA","dataType":"TREE RING","dataTypeInformation":"https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data/datasets/tree-ring","difMetadataLink":"http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/metadata/published/paleo/dif/xml/noaa-tree-1003410.xml","doi":"https://doi.org/10.25921/0w6m-3q07","earliestYearBP":982,"earliestYearCE":968,"entryId":"noaa-tree-1003410","funding":[],"investigators":"Seim, A.; Büntgen, U.; Fonti, P.; Haska, H.; Herzig, F.; Tegel, W.; Trouet, V.; Treydte, K.","mostRecentYearBP":-58,"mostRecentYearCE":2008,"onlineResourceLink":"https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/1003410","originalSource":null,"publication":[{"abstract":"Considerable progress has been made in assessing European climate variations of the\r\nlast millennium, but little is known about the Mediterranean region and particularly its eastern part\r\nincluding the Balkan Peninsula. This area, however, will be particularly vulnerable to a predicted\r\ntemperature increase and precipitation decrease, likely resulting in amplified drought extremes and\r\nepisodes. Here we present a well-replicated composite tree-ring width chronology of millennial\r\nlength from Albania, Balkan Peninsula. The Pinus heldreichii Christ dataset contains 302 series from\r\n217 living and dead trees from 3 high-elevation sites, and spans the years 968-2008. Signal strength\r\nand growth-climate relationships were investigated using subsets according to location, age class,\r\nand growth level, as well as differently detrended chronology versions. Growth comparisons\r\namongst the 3 sites' chronologies, between age classes and between growth-rate groups reveal an\r\noverall strong common signal. Growth-climate relationships over the last 100 yr, however, indicate\r\nthat tree-ring formation does not depend on one single dominant factor, but rather on various combinations\r\nof summer precipitation and temperature resulting in temporally varying drought sensitivity.\r\nOur results emphasize a mixed and variable climate signal, corresponding with findings from other\r\nP. heldreichii sites across the Balkan Peninsula and Southern Italy.","author":null,"citation":"Seim, A., U. Buentgen, P. Fonti, H. Haska, \r\nF. Herzig, W. Tegel, V. Trouet, and K. Treydte. 2012. \r\nClimate sensitivity of a millennium-long pine chronology \r\nfrom Albania. \r\nClimate Research, 51, 217-228.\r\nDOI: 10.3354/cr01076","edition":null,"identifier":{"id":"10.3354/cr01076","type":"doi","url":"http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/cr01076"},"issue":null,"journal":"Climate Research","pages":null,"pubRank":"1","pubYear":2012,"reportNumber":null,"title":"Climate sensitivity of a millennium-long pine chronology  from Albania.","type":"publication","volume":null}],"reconstruction":"N","scienceKeywords":["PAGES Euro-Med 2k","PAGES 2k Network"],"site":[{"NOAASiteId":"1000464","geo":{"geoType":"Feature","geometry":{"coordinates":["41","20"],"type":"POINT"},"properties":{"easternmostLongitude":"20","maxElevationMeters":"-400","minElevationMeters":"-400","northernmostLatitude":"41","southernmostLatitude":"41","westernmostLongitude":"20"}},"locationName":"Continent>Europe>Southern Europe>Albania","mappable":"Y","paleoData":[{"NOAADataTableId":"1001671","coreLengthMeters":null,"dataFile":[{"NOAAKeywords":["earth science>paleoclimate>tree-ring"],"fileUrl":"https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/reconstructions/pages2k/euro-med2k/Seim_et_al_CR_2012.txt","linkText":"Seim_et_al_CR_2012.txt","urlDescription":"Data","variables":[]}],"dataTableName":"Albania-TRW12","dataTableNotes":"This dataset is about Albania Tree ring data; PAGES ID, Eur_10; Correlation with temperature, positive, CRUTEM4v ;","earliestYear":968,"earliestYearBP":982,"earliestYearCE":968,"mostRecentYear":2008,"mostRecentYearBP":-58,"mostRecentYearCE":2008,"species":[{"commonName":["Scots pine","Scotch pine"],"scientificName":"Pinus sylvestris L.","speciesCode":"PISY"}],"timeUnit":"AD"}],"siteName":"Balkan Peninsula, Albania"}],"studyCode":null,"studyName":"Albania, 968-2008 AD, Tree ring width, Scots Pine, PAGES Euro-Med 2k Version","studyNotes":"  Tree-ring sampling was performed in order to develop well-replicated, long, and climate-sensitive chronologies including different age classes. From\n                     131 living trees, 47 disk and 255 core samples were collected, and 86 samples here derived from stumps of recently logged trees or from dry dead wood remains. We sampled at 3 high-elevation sites along a\n                     north-south transect in Albania: Thethi (AT), Fushe Lura (AL) and the Cuka Partisan (AP). All sites were located in open forest stands near the\n                     upper local treeline on shallow soils. The most northern site, AT (42° 25' N, 19°46' E), is located in the Albanian Alps, and 41 trees were sampled between\n                     1700 and 1900 m above sea level (a.s.l.) on a southeast-exposed slope. The AL site (41°48' N, 20°14' E) is located in the Lura mountain range in central Albania,\n                     where 89 trees were sampled between 1800 and 2000 m a.s.l. on a steep southwest-exposed slope. We complemented cores of living trees with samples from 10 logs (>500 yr) found in local sawmills close to\n                     this site. The AP site in the Tomorri massif (40°42' N, 20° 8' E) is the southernmost location, where 77 trees were sampled between 1900 and 2100 m a.s.l.\n","version":"1.0","xmlId":"1002813"}