# Woodhouse - Organ Mountains - PSME - ITRDB NM601 #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # 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/22327 # Description: NOAA Landing Page of study # Online_Resource: https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov//pub/data/paleo/treering/chronologies/northamerica/usa/nm601-noaa.crn # Description: Chronology - NOAA Template File # # Original_Source_URL: https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/chronologies/northamerica/usa/nm601.crn # Description: Chronology - Tucson Decadal File # # Archive: Tree Ring # # Dataset_DOI: # # Parameter_Keywords: ring width #------------------- # Contribution_Date # Date: 2016-07-07 #------------------- # File_Last_Modified_Date # Date: 2018-12-20 #------------------- # Title # Study_Name: Woodhouse - Organ Mountains - PSME - ITRDB NM601 #------------------- # Investigators: Woodhouse, C.A.; Griffin, D.; Losleben, M.V. #------------------- # Description_Notes_and_Keywords # Description: NOAA Template Chronology file added 2018-12-20. #------------------- # 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: Organ Mountains # Location: New Mexico # Northernmost_Latitude: 32.349 # Southernmost_Latitude: 32.349 # Easternmost_Longitude: -106.564 # Westernmost_Longitude: -106.564 # Elevation: 2475 #------------------- # Data_Collection # Collection_Name: NM601 # Earliest_Year: 1597 # Most_Recent_Year: 2009 # 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 1597 935 1 1598 1015 1 1599 1355 1 1600 1245 1 1601 620 1 1602 988 1 1603 1371 1 1604 1021 1 1605 400 1 1606 849 1 1607 973 1 1608 980 1 1609 1095 1 1610 1123 1 1611 1052 1 1612 1161 1 1613 858 1 1614 996 1 1615 1091 1 1616 1203 1 1617 1189 1 1618 1217 1 1619 1322 1 1620 879 1 1621 984 1 1622 1015 1 1623 828 1 1624 823 1 1625 772 1 1626 712 1 1627 1162 1 1628 919 2 1629 1462 2 1630 1305 2 1631 1082 2 1632 559 2 1633 915 2 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