# Wilson - Goldener Turm Regensburg Historical Timbers - ABAL - ITRDB GERM080 #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # 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/10687 # Description: NOAA Landing Page of study # Online_Resource: https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/europe/germ080-noaa.rwl # Description: Raw Measurements - NOAA Template File # Online_Resource: https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/treering/measurements/europe/germ080.rwl # Description: Raw Measurements - Tucson Decadal File # # Archive: Treering # # Dataset_DOI: # # Parameter_Keywords: ring width #------------------- # Contribution_Date # Date: 2010-06-23 #------------------- # File_Last_Modified_Date # Date: 2019-02-05 #------------------- # Title # Study_Name: Wilson - Goldener Turm Regensburg Historical Timbers - ABAL - ITRDB GERM080 #------------------- # Investigators: Wilson, R.J.S. #------------------- # Description_Notes_and_Keywords # Description: Purpose of Collection: # Hydroclimatic reconstructions # # # References: # Wilson, R.J.S. and W. Elling. 2004. # Temporal instabilities of tree-growth/climate response # in the Lower Bavarian Forest Region: Implications for # dendroclimatic reconstruction. # Trees: Structure and Function, 18 (1): 19-28. # # Wilson, R.J.S., J. Esper, and B.H. Luckman. 2004. # Utilising Historical Tree-Ring Data for Dendroclimatology: # A Case study from the Bavarian Forest, Germany. # Dendrochronologia. 21 (2): 53-68. # # Wilson, R.J.S., B.H. Luckman, and J. Esper. 2005. # A 500-Year Dendroclimatic Reconstruction of Spring/Summer # Precipitation from the Lower Bavarian Forest Region, Germany. # International Journal of Climatology, 25: 611-630. # # # Notes: # Bavarian Forest Region Historical Timbers # # NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-02-05. #------------------- # Publication # Authors: # Journal_Name: International Journal of Climatology # Published_Title: A 500-Year Dendroclimatic Reconstruction of Spring/Summer Precipitation from the Lower Bavarian Forest Region, Germany # Published_Date_or_Year: 2005 # Volume: # Pages: # Report_Number: # DOI: 10.1002/joc.1150 # Full_Citation: Wilson, R.J.S., B.H. Luckman, and J. Esper. 2005. # A 500-Year Dendroclimatic Reconstruction of Spring/Summer # Precipitation from the Lower Bavarian Forest Region, Germany. # International Journal of Climatology, 25: 611-630. # # Abstract: This paper presents a 500 year March-August precipitation reconstruction for the Bavarian Forest region of southeast # Germany based on a composite, well-replicated data set of 676 living and historical tree-ring width series from Norway # spruce. Two versions of the chronology are developed. The cubic smoothing spline (SPL) chronology, standardized # with a fixed 80 year spline function, retains decadal and higher frequency variation. The regional curve standardization # (RCS) chronology uses regional curve standardization to retain additional lower frequency variation from the same # data. Calibration (1879-1978) of these chronologies with March-August precipitation indicates they explain 40% (SPL) # and 34% (RCS) of the variability in the instrumental precipitation record. The SPL reconstruction models the high frequency # variation better, whereas the RCS reconstruction tracks the low-frequency trends more robustly. It suggests # that spring-summer precipitation was above the long-term average for the periods 1730-1810 and 1870-2000, about # average between 1560 and 1610 and that significantly drier periods occurred during 1510-60, 1610-35, 1660-1730 and # 1830-70. The low-frequency trends of the RCS reconstruction during the 19th century were verified by comparison with a # regional precipitation series derived from 14 long precipitation records from central Europe. Better verification results were # obtained using the original (non-homogenized) records over this interval. These results suggest that some low-frequency # variability may have been removed during correction of these early records. Periods of synchronous decadal variability # were observed between the SPL series and independent dendroclimatic reconstructions from central Europe. The RCS # reconstruction is the first dendroclimatic precipitation reconstruction in Europe to capture low-frequency information. # These long-term trends, however, are difficult to verify owing to the paucity of other proxy precipitation records in # central Europe that portray low-frequency information. Further verification and testing of the RCS reconstruction will # require the development of additional reconstructions from tree-rings (or other proxy data series) that similarly target # low-frequency variability. #------------------- # Site Information # Site_Name: Goldener Turm Regensburg Historical Timbers # Location: Bavaria # Northernmost_Latitude: 49.0167 # Southernmost_Latitude: 49.0167 # Easternmost_Longitude: 12.1 # Westernmost_Longitude: 12.1 # Elevation: #------------------- # Data Collection # Collection_Name: GERM080 # Earliest_Year: 1410 # Most_Recent_Year: 1455 # Time_Unit: AD # Notes: #------------------- # Species # Species_Name: Abies alba Mill. # Common_Name: silver fir # Tree_Species_Code: ABAL #------------------- # Chronology_Information # Chronology: #--------------------- # Variables # Data variables follow that are preceded by '##' in columns one and two. # Variables list, one per line; shortname-tab- components: what, material, error, units, seasonality, archive, detail, method, C or N for Character or Numeric data,additional information) ## age_CE age,,,year Common Era,,tree ring,,,N, ## GFIR2A_raw total ring width ,,,millimeter,,tree ring,,,N,Tree ID: GFIR2A; units are 0.01 mm if end-of-series marker is 999 and 0.001 mm if end-of-series marker is -9999 ## GFIR2B_raw total ring width ,,,millimeter,,tree ring,,,N,Tree ID: GFIR2B; units are 0.01 mm if end-of-series marker is 999 and 0.001 mm if end-of-series marker is -9999 #--------------------- # Data: # Missing_Values: NA age_CE GFIR2A_raw GFIR2B_raw 1410 4320 3601 1411 3732 3258 1412 3164 2996 1413 3036 2803 1414 3557 4260 1415 3380 3405 1416 3525 2614 1417 2271 1715 1418 2317 1785 1419 2884 2189 1420 1918 1562 1421 2991 2461 1422 2729 2449 1423 2105 1776 1424 2229 2055 1425 2699 2600 1426 3065 3350 1427 2728 3031 1428 2768 2884 1429 4768 4764 1430 3111 3043 1431 3087 2863 1432 2488 2034 1433 3236 3100 1434 2683 2527 1435 3510 2888 1436 4548 3008 1437 4534 2856 1438 4839 3330 1439 4275 3725 1440 1740 1680 1441 2872 2600 1442 2735 2317 1443 1901 1469 1444 2524 1958 1445 3329 3159 1446 3605 3637 1447 1831 2456 1448 1562 2091 1449 1865 2711 1450 2457 2745 1451 2425 2941 1452 -9999 2875 1453 NaN 2184 1454 NaN 2410 1455 NaN 1803