# Villanueva - Fule Cuevecillas - PSME - ITRDB MEXI080 #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # World Data Service for Paleoclimatology, Boulder # and # NOAA Paleoclimatology Program # National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # Template Version 3.0 # Encoding: UTF-8 # NOTE: Please cite original publication, online resource and date accessed when using these data, # If there is no publication information, please cite investigator, title, online resource and date accessed. # # Online_Resource: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/20875 # Description: NOAA Landing Page of study # Online_Resource: https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov//pub/data/paleo/treering/chronologies/northamerica/mexico/mexi080-noaa.crn # Description: Chronology - NOAA Template File # # Original_Source_URL: https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/chronologies/northamerica/mexico/mexi080.crn # Description: Chronology - Tucson Decadal File # # Archive: Tree Ring # # Dataset_DOI: # # Parameter_Keywords: ring width #------------------- # Contribution_Date # Date: 2016-07-27 #------------------- # File_Last_Modified_Date # Date: 2018-12-14 #------------------- # Title # Study_Name: Villanueva - Fule Cuevecillas - PSME - ITRDB MEXI080 #------------------- # Investigators: Villanueva, J. #------------------- # Description_Notes_and_Keywords # Description: NOAA Template Chronology file added 2018-12-14. #------------------- # Publication # Authors: David W. Stahle, Edward R. Cook, Dorian J. Burnette, Jose Villanueva, Julian Cerano, Jordan N. Burns, Daniel Griffin, Benjamin I. Cook, Rodolfo Acuna, Max C.A. Torbenson, Paul Sjezner, Ian M. Howard # Journal_Name: Quaternary Science Reviews # Published_Title: The Mexican Drought Atlas: Tree-ring reconstructions of the soil moisture balance during the late pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern eras # Published_Date_or_Year: 2016 # Volume: 149 # Pages: 34-60 # Report_Number: # DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.06.018 # Full_Citation: # Abstract: Mexico has suffered a long history and prehistory of severe sustained drought. Drought over Mexico is modulated by ocean-atmospheric variability in the Atlantic and Pacific, raising the possibility for long-range seasonal climate forecasting, which could help mediate the economic and social impacts of future dry spells. The instrumental record of Mexican climate is very limited before 1920, but tree-ring chronologies developed from old-growth forests in Mexico can provide an excellent proxy representation of the spatial pattern and intensity of past moisture regimes useful for the analysis of climate dynamics and climate impacts. The Mexican Drought Atlas (MXDA) has been developed from an extensive network of 252 climate sensitive tree-ring chronologies in and near Mexico. The MXDA reconstructions extend from 1400 CE-2012 and were calibrated with the instrumental summer (JJA) self-calibrating Palmer Drought Severity Index (scPDSI) on a 0.5 latitude/longitude grid extending over land areas from 14 to 34N and 75-120W using Ensemble Point-by-Point Regression (EPPR) for the 1944-1984 period. The grid point reconstructions were validated for the period 1920-1943 against instrumental gridded scPDSI values based on the fewer weather station observations available during that interval. The MXDA provides a new spatial perspective on the historical impacts of moisture extremes over Mexico during the past 600-years, including the Aztec Drought of One Rabbit in 1454, the drought of El Ano de Hambre in 1785-1786, and the drought that preceded the Mexican Revolution of 1909-1910. # The El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most important ocean-atmospheric forcing of moisture variability detected with the MXDA. In fact, the reconstructions suggest that the strongest central equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) teleconnection to the soil moisture balance over North America may reside in northern Mexico. This ENSO signal has stronger and more time-stable correlations than computed for either the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation or Pacific Decadal Oscillation. The extended Multivariate ENSO Index is most highly correlated with reconstructed scPDSI over northern Mexico, where warm events favor moist conditions during the winter, spring, and early summer. This ENSO teleconnection to northern Mexico has been strong over the past 150 years, but it has been comparatively weak and non-stationary in the MXDA over central and southern Mexico where eastern tropical Pacific and Caribbean/tropical Atlantic SSTs seem to be more important. The ENSO teleconnection to northern Mexico is weaker in the available instrumental PDSI, but analyses based on the millennium climate simulations with the Community Earth System Model suggest that the moisture balance during the winter, spring, and early summer over northern Mexico may indeed be particularly sensitive to ENSO forcing. Nationwide drought is predicted to become more common with anthropogenic climate change, but the MXDA reconstructions indicate that intense "All Mexico" droughts have been rare over the past 600 years and their frequency does not appear to have increased substantially in recent decades. #------------------- # Site_Information # Site_Name: Fule Cuevecillas # Location: Durango # Northernmost_Latitude: 25.15 # Southernmost_Latitude: 25.15 # Easternmost_Longitude: -106.383 # Westernmost_Longitude: -106.383 # Elevation: 2500 #------------------- # Data_Collection # Collection_Name: MEXI080 # Earliest_Year: 1651 # Most_Recent_Year: 1993 # Time_Unit: AD # Notes: #------------------- # Species # Species_Name: Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco # Common_Name: Douglas-fir # Tree_Species_Code: PSME #------------------- # Chronology_Information # Chronology: #--------------------- # Variables # variables format: shortname var components: what,material,error,units,season,archive,detail,method, C or N for Char or Numeric data,additional information ## age_CE age,,,year Common Era,,tree ring,,,N, ## trsgi tree ring standardized growth index,,,,,tree ring,composited,standard,N, ## numsamp number of samples,,,count,,tree ring,,,N, # #-------------------- # Data: # Missing_Values: -999 age_CE trsgi numsamp 1651 1157 1 1652 1052 1 1653 836 1 1654 916 1 1655 1066 2 1656 902 2 1657 920 2 1658 996 2 1659 866 2 1660 1003 2 1661 1140 2 1662 1153 2 1663 987 2 1664 747 2 1665 648 2 1666 729 2 1667 848 2 1668 1086 2 1669 1246 2 1670 1088 2 1671 1066 2 1672 1145 2 1673 1126 2 1674 1374 2 1675 1238 2 1676 1232 2 1677 1514 2 1678 1002 2 1679 1016 2 1680 980 2 1681 948 2 1682 1107 2 1683 991 2 1684 1025 2 1685 782 2 1686 866 2 1687 909 2 1688 678 2 1689 982 2 1690 806 2 1691 729 2 1692 795 2 1693 735 2 1694 780 2 1695 903 2 1696 578 2 1697 824 2 1698 906 2 1699 963 2 1700 1042 2 1701 1126 2 1702 1002 2 1703 977 2 1704 873 2 1705 985 2 1706 1167 2 1707 978 2 1708 893 2 1709 929 2 1710 931 2 1711 863 2 1712 1007 2 1713 1001 2 1714 1052 2 1715 865 2 1716 801 2 1717 1001 2 1718 1021 2 1719 892 2 1720 882 2 1721 1082 2 1722 917 2 1723 1038 2 1724 968 2 1725 824 2 1726 1306 2 1727 1157 2 1728 955 3 1729 961 3 1730 944 3 1731 1055 3 1732 993 3 1733 904 3 1734 1101 3 1735 1188 3 1736 1235 3 1737 1205 3 1738 1360 3 1739 1392 3 1740 1100 3 1741 1027 3 1742 956 3 1743 971 3 1744 1096 3 1745 1137 3 1746 1251 3 1747 1102 4 1748 970 4 1749 1100 4 1750 814 4 1751 980 4 1752 707 4 1753 690 4 1754 566 4 1755 638 4 1756 1304 4 1757 653 4 1758 761 4 1759 1115 5 1760 1199 5 1761 1098 5 1762 1240 6 1763 1135 7 1764 1137 8 1765 1092 8 1766 1051 9 1767 931 10 1768 821 10 1769 900 10 1770 1052 10 1771 930 10 1772 973 10 1773 820 11 1774 900 12 1775 768 13 1776 1118 13 1777 1051 13 1778 665 15 1779 1058 15 1780 1188 15 1781 1032 15 1782 937 15 1783 1086 16 1784 1137 16 1785 773 16 1786 819 16 1787 822 16 1788 1095 16 1789 843 16 1790 785 17 1791 1185 17 1792 1193 17 1793 1191 20 1794 1051 20 1795 1102 21 1796 1170 21 1797 1122 21 1798 715 21 1799 940 21 1800 1292 22 1801 952 22 1802 975 22 1803 919 23 1804 1150 23 1805 625 23 1806 937 23 1807 927 24 1808 899 24 1809 997 24 1810 961 24 1811 625 24 1812 1103 24 1813 1132 24 1814 1390 24 1815 1210 24 1816 1328 24 1817 1088 24 1818 999 24 1819 894 24 1820 671 24 1821 918 24 1822 1001 24 1823 1073 24 1824 1205 24 1825 1250 24 1826 937 24 1827 1305 24 1828 1174 24 1829 1273 24 1830 956 24 1831 1062 24 1832 1156 25 1833 1183 25 1834 1162 27 1835 1045 28 1836 921 28 1837 1094 28 1838 922 28 1839 983 28 1840 937 28 1841 863 29 1842 894 29 1843 853 30 1844 1015 30 1845 951 31 1846 970 31 1847 827 31 1848 928 31 1849 1014 32 1850 1279 33 1851 1143 33 1852 1254 33 1853 1121 33 1854 1081 33 1855 852 33 1856 1191 33 1857 619 33 1858 1127 33 1859 1106 34 1860 783 36 1861 962 37 1862 670 37 1863 923 37 1864 1038 37 1865 1017 37 1866 843 38 1867 864 39 1868 691 39 1869 1192 40 1870 1016 41 1871 905 41 1872 1119 41 1873 1058 41 1874 1226 41 1875 1057 42 1876 1113 42 1877 1213 42 1878 1113 43 1879 1007 44 1880 824 44 1881 1037 44 1882 1024 44 1883 1078 44 1884 1080 44 1885 1129 44 1886 1219 45 1887 780 45 1888 1272 45 1889 1121 45 1890 633 45 1891 937 45 1892 828 46 1893 450 46 1894 712 46 1895 851 46 1896 1039 46 1897 940 46 1898 869 46 1899 849 46 1900 1046 46 1901 934 46 1902 833 46 1903 1150 46 1904 832 46 1905 1245 46 1906 1007 46 1907 758 46 1908 893 46 1909 664 46 1910 924 46 1911 1042 46 1912 1227 46 1913 1164 46 1914 1037 46 1915 1087 46 1916 1047 46 1917 1051 46 1918 940 46 1919 1094 46 1920 1085 46 1921 777 46 1922 843 46 1923 929 46 1924 1156 46 1925 830 46 1926 1207 45 1927 881 45 1928 1143 46 1929 831 46 1930 1003 46 1931 1202 50 1932 1015 50 1933 1209 50 1934 970 50 1935 1028 53 1936 1025 53 1937 953 53 1938 1090 53 1939 906 53 1940 971 53 1941 1135 53 1942 1129 54 1943 892 55 1944 1315 56 1945 1106 56 1946 852 56 1947 1218 56 1948 1187 56 1949 1142 56 1950 990 56 1951 804 56 1952 957 56 1953 863 56 1954 829 56 1955 994 56 1956 739 56 1957 991 56 1958 1041 56 1959 1003 56 1960 1091 56 1961 1159 56 1962 985 56 1963 1023 56 1964 1357 56 1965 1051 56 1966 1133 56 1967 933 56 1968 1203 56 1969 1153 55 1970 1068 55 1971 697 55 1972 983 55 1973 1058 55 1974 696 48 1975 757 16 1976 714 16 1977 1127 16 1978 893 16 1979 1145 16 1980 952 16 1981 1246 16 1982 879 16 1983 1216 16 1984 1046 16 1985 1069 16 1986 926 16 1987 1148 16 1988 1047 16 1989 874 15 1990 963 14 1991 663 14 1992 867 13 1993 630 3