Chronology file name : CANA131.CRN Measurement file name : CANA131.RWL Date checked : 29JUL96 Technician's name : MARIETTE SEKLECKI Supervisor's name : HENRI D. GRISSINO-MAYER Beginning year : 1865 Ending year : 1989 Principal investigators: C. LARSEN, J. SZEICZ, M. HUTTON Site name : WOOD BUFFALO NATIONAL PARK SITE BR Site location : CANADA Species information : PCGL WHITE SPRUCE Latitude : 5907N Longitude : 11211W Elevation : 0 M Series intercorrelation: 0.497 Avg mean sensitivity : 0.264 Avg standard deviation : 9.118 Avg autocorrelation : 0.809 Number dated series : 21 Segment length tested : 50 Number problem segments: 20 Pct problem segments : 24.39 Are there obvious misdated series? YES Number possible misdated series : 6 Percent misdated series : 28.57 Do they affect chronology quality? N/A Recommend withhold from ITRDB? N/A Comments: #3 BR61, #1 BR21 1875-1924, #2 BR22 1876-1925, #4 BR41 1887-1949, #6 BR72, #21 BR1901-1950 ARE MISDATED #19 BR111 1907-1956 IS POSSIBLY MISDATED DATA SET COULD BE GREATLY IMPROVED PART 5: CORRELATION OF SERIES BY SEGMENTS: 22:02 Mon 29 JUL 1996 Page 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Correlations of 50-year dated segments, lagged 25 years Flags: A = correlation under 0.3281 but highest as dated; B = correlation higher at other than dated position Seq Series Time_span 1850 1875 1900 1925 1950 1899 1924 1949 1974 1999 --- -------- --------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 1 BR 21 1875 1989 .09B .52 .72 .76 2 BR 22 1876 1989 .00B .50 .76 .81 3 BR 61 1899 1989 .03B .04B .18B .25A 4 BR 41 1887 1989 .05B .25B .75 .82 5 BR 51 1865 1989 .39 .40 .52 .63 .70 6 BR 72 1872 1989 -.05B-.09B .22B .46 .57 7 BR 42 1882 1989 .55 .73 .80 .79 8 BR 52 1889 1989 .61 .57 .68 .74 9 BR 62 1885 1989 .21B .60 .69 .71 10 BR 11 1871 1989 .34 .43 .69 .80 .84 11 BR 101 1882 1989 .55 .61 .68 .79 12 BR 102 1881 1989 .49 .50 .64 .73 13 BR 131 1885 1989 .47 .62 .74 .70 14 BR 141 1908 1989 .68 .79 .81 15 BR 81 1900 1989 .09B .40B .40 16 BR 82 1892 1989 -.01B .11B .41 .54 17 BR 92 1893 1989 .35B .44 .73 .78 18 BR 91 1895 1989 .42 .42 .63 .76 19 BR 111 1907 1989 .27B .68 .76 20 BR 121 1907 1989 .17B .64 .71 21 BR 122 1901 1989 .17B .50 .60 PART 7: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: 22:02 Mon 29 JUL 1996 Page 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Corr //-------- Unfiltered --------\\ //---- Filtered -----\\ No. No. No. with Mean Max Std Auto Mean Max Std Auto AR Seq Series Interval Years Segmt Flags Master msmt msmt dev corr sens value dev corr () --- -------- --------- ----- ----- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -- 1 BR 21 1875 1989 115 4 1 0.539 13.10 35.35 7.262 0.817 0.278 1.93 0.293 -0.039 1 2 BR 22 1876 1989 114 4 1 0.507 12.30 27.78 6.362 0.784 0.278 1.92 0.354 -0.006 1 3 BR 61 1899 1989 91 4 4 0.173 18.69 51.21 8.420 0.756 0.214 2.10 0.393 -0.061 1 4 BR 41 1887 1989 103 4 2 0.442 14.81 33.65 7.801 0.808 0.274 1.95 0.339 -0.058 2 5 BR 51 1865 1989 125 5 0 0.556 16.22 41.97 7.858 0.776 0.263 2.04 0.407 -0.047 2 6 BR 72 1872 1989 118 5 3 0.226 12.33 34.07 9.747 0.876 0.373 1.92 0.336 -0.054 1 7 BR 42 1882 1989 108 4 0 0.696 13.15 35.24 6.821 0.801 0.279 1.93 0.368 -0.028 2 8 BR 52 1889 1989 101 4 0 0.642 20.60 51.15 10.468 0.827 0.232 1.91 0.312 -0.015 1 9 BR 62 1885 1989 105 4 1 0.501 15.97 54.31 6.721 0.554 0.236 1.94 0.355 0.064 1 10 BR 11 1871 1989 119 5 0 0.626 20.87 44.26 9.506 0.746 0.286 1.99 0.361 0.035 1 11 BR 101 1882 1989 108 4 0 0.641 23.33 46.44 8.398 0.750 0.214 1.93 0.342 -0.030 1 12 BR 102 1881 1989 109 4 0 0.570 25.62 48.39 11.110 0.844 0.211 1.92 0.350 -0.039 1 13 BR 131 1885 1989 105 4 0 0.593 19.61 42.90 8.416 0.790 0.238 1.86 0.284 -0.041 1 14 BR 141 1908 1989 82 3 0 0.712 20.35 44.87 10.128 0.826 0.268 2.10 0.441 0.030 1 15 BR 81 1900 1989 90 3 2 0.258 15.31 58.83 13.430 0.900 0.325 1.95 0.314 0.018 1 16 BR 82 1892 1989 98 4 2 0.311 15.97 43.34 12.276 0.931 0.301 1.99 0.265 0.009 1 17 BR 92 1893 1989 97 4 1 0.553 15.99 36.97 9.898 0.839 0.277 1.99 0.409 0.057 1 18 BR 91 1895 1989 95 4 0 0.553 15.95 35.76 9.228 0.888 0.241 1.98 0.351 -0.030 1 19 BR 111 1907 1989 83 3 1 0.482 18.44 39.28 9.441 0.840 0.264 2.04 0.419 -0.019 3 20 BR 121 1907 1989 83 3 1 0.361 18.70 40.94 9.768 0.861 0.229 1.90 0.288 -0.085 1 21 BR 122 1901 1989 89 3 1 0.412 21.75 48.95 10.397 0.843 0.232 2.09 0.382 0.003 1 --- -------- --------- ----- ----- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -- Total or mean: 2138 82 20 0.497 17.47 58.83 9.118 0.809 0.264 2.10 0.350 -0.016