NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Central United States 1000 Year Summer PHDI Reconstructions
This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Climate Reconstruction. The data include parameters of climate reconstructions|tree ring with a geographic location of Iowa, United States Of America. The time period coverage is from 958 to -54 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.
Dataset Citation
- Cite as: Stambaugh, M.C.; Guyette, R.P.; McMurry, E.R.; Cook, E.R.; Meko, D.M.; Lupo, A.R. (2011-06-08): NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Central United States 1000 Year Summer PHDI Reconstructions. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. https://doi.org/10.25921/jpwj-jb40. Accessed [date].
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- doi:10.25921/jpwj-jb40
- noaa-recon-11178
- NCEI DSI 1200_02
- NCEI DSI 1200_01
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noaa-recon-11178
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Coverage Description | Date Range: 992 CE to 2004 CE; Date Range: 958 cal yr BP to -54 cal yr BP; |
Time Period | 992 to 2004 |
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West: -93
East: -91
South: 40
North: 42
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Dataset Progress Status | Complete - production of the data has been completed |
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Supplemental Information | STUDY NOTES: Tree ring reconstruction of summer (June-July-August, JJA) Palmer Hydrologic Drought Index (PHDI) for the central United States (Missouri Climate Division 1, Iowa Climate Divisions 7 and 8) for the past 1093 years. Tree-ring data were derived from a master oak ring-width chronology spanning the period AD 912 to 2004. The chronology was developed from live tree cores and sections of subfossil trees collected from the region of northern Missouri and southern Iowa, USA, ~41°N, 92°W. ABSTRACT SUPPLIED BY ORIGINATOR: Drought is among the most costly natural hazards affecting the United States, averaging $6 to $8 billion annually in damages, primarily in crop losses. Mitigating the impacts of drought through planning and preparedness has the potential to save billions of dollars. We used a new long tree-ring chronology developed from the central U.S. to reconstruct annual drought and characterize past drought duration, frequency, and cycles in the U.S. Corn Belt region during the last millennium. This is the first paleoclimate reconstruction achieved with subfossil oak wood in the U.S. and increases the current dendroclimatic record in the central U.S. agricultural region by over 500 years. A tree ring-width drought response function was calibrated and verified against monthly instrumental Palmer Hydrologic Drought Index (PHDI) during the summer season (JJA). Separate reconstructions tailored to emphasize high-frequency and low-frequency variations indicate that drought conditions over the period of instrumental records (since 1895) do not exhibit the full range of variability, severity, or duration of droughts during the last millennium. For example, three years in the last millennium were drier than 1934, a classic Dust-Bowl year and the driest year of the instrumental period. Thirteen decadal to multidecadal droughts (i.e., =>10 years) occurred during the last millennium - the longest lasting sixty-one years and centered on the late twelfth century. Reconstructions exhibited quasi-periodicity at bidecadal and century-scale periods. Significant rhythms in drought were identified near 20-yr and 128-yr periods. The tree-ring drought reconstruction shows promise in providing new information about long-term climate variability in the agricultural regions that could potentially span multimillennia. We postulate that tree-ring chronologies (i.e., tree growth), thus far under-utilized in agricultural applications, have the potential to match contributions of instrumental climate data. |
Purpose | Records of past temperature, precipitation, and other climate variables derived from paleoclimate proxies. Parameter keywords describe what was measured in this data set. Additional summary information can be found in the abstracts of papers listed in the data set citations. |
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