The tree-ring width and the maximum wood density of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) have ... more The tree-ring width and the maximum wood density of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) have been examined in order to reconstruct air temperature of the summer half-year during the period 1804 - 1989. The trees examined come from a natural spruce stand of Labský důl (Elbe Valley) in Krkonoše (Giant Mts.), North Bohemia. The results obtained by this way have been compared with a similar reconstruction made for Central Europe and with air temperature records from the Prague-Klementinum station. Both temperature series (reconstructed and measured), however, show only 36 % of commonly clarified variability. Differences may follow from the standardization of dendrochronologies as well as from other factors which may have influenced the growth of spruce. The quality of air temperature measurement may play also role.
The zip file contains almost 2000 tree ring width data in Tucson format (rwl) from 78 sites acros... more The zip file contains almost 2000 tree ring width data in Tucson format (rwl) from 78 sites across the Carpathian Mountains in Europe. In addition, genetic data used in the study are also attached. The datasets were used in the paper on <strong>Effects of postglacial phylogeny and genetic diversity on the growth variability and climate sensitivity of European silver fir </strong>published in Journal of Ecology.
This article returns to a well from the North Bohemian town of Most, first published in the early... more This article returns to a well from the North Bohemian town of Most, first published in the early 1980's, and considers the dendrochronological dating of its wooden lining. Because the new dating differs considerably from that earlier assigned on the basis of the archaeology, attempts are made to explain this disagreement. The general preconditions that must be met to achieve an objective archaeological dating are also considered. It argues that often, insufficient attention is paid to the interpretation of the origins of individual stratigraphic components, and of the stratigraphy as a whole.
We present the European Russia Drought Atlas (ERDA) that covers the East European Plain to the Ur... more We present the European Russia Drought Atlas (ERDA) that covers the East European Plain to the Ural Mountains from 1400-2016 CE. Like the Old World Drought Atlas (OWDA) for the Euro-Mediterranean region, the ERDA is a one-half degree gridded reconstruction of summer Palmer Drought Severity Indices estimated from a network of annual tree-ring chronologies. Ensemble point-by-point regression is used to generate the ERDA with the identical protocols used for developing the OWDA. Split calibration/validation tests of the ERDA indicate that it has significant skill over most of its domain and is much more skillful than the OWDA where they overlap in the western part of ERDA domain. Comparisons to historical droughts over European Russia additionally support the ERDA&#39;s overall validity. The ERDA has been spatially smoothed and infilled using a local regression method to yield a spatially complete drought atlas back to 1400 CE. EOF analysis indicates that there are three principal modes of hydroclimatic variability in the ERDA. After Varimax rotation, these modes correlate significantly with independent climate data sets extending back to the late nineteenth century in a physically interpretable way and relate to atmospheric circulation dynamics of droughts and heatwaves over European Russia based on more recent instrumental data.
Annually resolved and absolutely dated tree-ring chronologies are the most important proxy archiv... more Annually resolved and absolutely dated tree-ring chronologies are the most important proxy archives to reconstruct climate variability over centuries to millennia. However, the suitability of tree-ring chronologies to reflect the “true” spectral properties of past changes in temperature and hydroclimate has recently been debated. At issue is the accurate quantification of temperature differences between early nineteenth-century cooling and recent warming. In this regard, central Europe (CEU) offers the unique opportunity to compare evidence from instrumental measurements, paleomodel simulations, and proxy reconstructions covering both the exceptionally hot summer of 2003 and the year without summer in 1816. This study uses 565 Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra) ring width samples from high-elevation sites in the Slovakian Tatra Mountains and Austrian Alps to reconstruct CEU summer temperatures over the past three centuries. This new temperature history is compared to different sets of ...
The tree-ring width and the maximum wood density of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) have ... more The tree-ring width and the maximum wood density of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) have been examined in order to reconstruct air temperature of the summer half-year during the period 1804 - 1989. The trees examined come from a natural spruce stand of Labský důl (Elbe Valley) in Krkonoše (Giant Mts.), North Bohemia. The results obtained by this way have been compared with a similar reconstruction made for Central Europe and with air temperature records from the Prague-Klementinum station. Both temperature series (reconstructed and measured), however, show only 36 % of commonly clarified variability. Differences may follow from the standardization of dendrochronologies as well as from other factors which may have influenced the growth of spruce. The quality of air temperature measurement may play also role.
The zip file contains almost 2000 tree ring width data in Tucson format (rwl) from 78 sites acros... more The zip file contains almost 2000 tree ring width data in Tucson format (rwl) from 78 sites across the Carpathian Mountains in Europe. In addition, genetic data used in the study are also attached. The datasets were used in the paper on <strong>Effects of postglacial phylogeny and genetic diversity on the growth variability and climate sensitivity of European silver fir </strong>published in Journal of Ecology.
This article returns to a well from the North Bohemian town of Most, first published in the early... more This article returns to a well from the North Bohemian town of Most, first published in the early 1980's, and considers the dendrochronological dating of its wooden lining. Because the new dating differs considerably from that earlier assigned on the basis of the archaeology, attempts are made to explain this disagreement. The general preconditions that must be met to achieve an objective archaeological dating are also considered. It argues that often, insufficient attention is paid to the interpretation of the origins of individual stratigraphic components, and of the stratigraphy as a whole.
We present the European Russia Drought Atlas (ERDA) that covers the East European Plain to the Ur... more We present the European Russia Drought Atlas (ERDA) that covers the East European Plain to the Ural Mountains from 1400-2016 CE. Like the Old World Drought Atlas (OWDA) for the Euro-Mediterranean region, the ERDA is a one-half degree gridded reconstruction of summer Palmer Drought Severity Indices estimated from a network of annual tree-ring chronologies. Ensemble point-by-point regression is used to generate the ERDA with the identical protocols used for developing the OWDA. Split calibration/validation tests of the ERDA indicate that it has significant skill over most of its domain and is much more skillful than the OWDA where they overlap in the western part of ERDA domain. Comparisons to historical droughts over European Russia additionally support the ERDA&#39;s overall validity. The ERDA has been spatially smoothed and infilled using a local regression method to yield a spatially complete drought atlas back to 1400 CE. EOF analysis indicates that there are three principal modes of hydroclimatic variability in the ERDA. After Varimax rotation, these modes correlate significantly with independent climate data sets extending back to the late nineteenth century in a physically interpretable way and relate to atmospheric circulation dynamics of droughts and heatwaves over European Russia based on more recent instrumental data.
Annually resolved and absolutely dated tree-ring chronologies are the most important proxy archiv... more Annually resolved and absolutely dated tree-ring chronologies are the most important proxy archives to reconstruct climate variability over centuries to millennia. However, the suitability of tree-ring chronologies to reflect the “true” spectral properties of past changes in temperature and hydroclimate has recently been debated. At issue is the accurate quantification of temperature differences between early nineteenth-century cooling and recent warming. In this regard, central Europe (CEU) offers the unique opportunity to compare evidence from instrumental measurements, paleomodel simulations, and proxy reconstructions covering both the exceptionally hot summer of 2003 and the year without summer in 1816. This study uses 565 Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra) ring width samples from high-elevation sites in the Slovakian Tatra Mountains and Austrian Alps to reconstruct CEU summer temperatures over the past three centuries. This new temperature history is compared to different sets of ...
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