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NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Wilson 2007 Gulf of Alaska 1300 Year Temperature Reconstruction

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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 Gulf Of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean. The time period coverage is from 1226 to -49 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.
  • Cite as: Wilson, R.J.S.; Zweck, C.; Wiles, G.; D'Arrigo, R.D. (2007-07-01): NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Wilson 2007 Gulf of Alaska 1300 Year Temperature Reconstruction. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. https://doi.org/10.25921/qbbh-1v29. Accessed [date].
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Dataset Point of Contact NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
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NOAA World Data Service for Paleoclimatology
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Coverage Description Date Range: 724 CE to 1999 CE; Date Range: 1226 cal yr BP to -49 cal yr BP;
Time Period 724 to 1999
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates
West: -145
East: -136
South: 57
North: 61
Spatial Coverage Map
General Documentation
Associated Resources
  • Cycles and shifts: 1300-years of multidecadal temperature variability in the Gulf of Alaska
    • Associated Reference published 2007
      Wilson, R., Wiles, G., D’Arrigo, R. and Zweck, C., 2007: Cycles and shifts: 1300-years of multidecadal temperature variability in the Gulf of Alaska. Climate Dynamics, 28, 425-440, 10.1007/s00382-006-0194-9
Publication Dates
  • publication: 2007-07-01
Data Presentation Form Digital table - digital representation of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns
Dataset Progress Status Complete - production of the data has been completed
Data Update Frequency Data update frequency not available
Supplemental Information
ABSTRACT SUPPLIED BY ORIGINATOR: The Gulf of Alaska (GOA) is highly sensitive to shifts in North Pacific climate variability. Here we present an extended tree-ring record of January–September GOA coastal surface air temperatures using tree-ring width data from coniferous trees growing in the mountain ranges along the GOA. The reconstruction (1514–1999), based on living trees, explains 44% of the temperature variance, although, as the number of chronologies decreases back in time, this value decreases to, and remains around ∼30% before 1840. Verification of the calibrated models is, however, robust. Utilizing sub-fossil wood, we extend the GOA reconstruction back to the early eighth century. The GOA reconstruction correlates significantly (95% CL) with both the Pacific Decadal Oscillation Index (0.53) and North Pacific Index (−0.42) and therefore likely yields important information on past climate variability in the North Pacific region. Intervention analysis on the GOA reconstruction identifies the known twentieth century climate shifts around the 1940s and 1970s, although the mid-1920s shift is only weakly expressed. In the context of the full 1,300 years record, the well studied 1976 shift is not unique. Multi-taper method spectral analysis shows that the spectral properties of the living and sub-fossil data are similar, with both records showing significant (95% CL) spectral peaks at ∼9–11, 13–14 and 18–19 years. Singular spectrum analysis identifies (in order of importance) significant oscillatory modes at 18.7, 50.4, 38.0, 91.8, 24.4, 15.3 and 14.1 years. The amplitude of these modes varies through time. It has been suggested (Minobe in Geophys Res Lett 26:855–858, 1999) that the regime shifts during the twentieth century can be explained by the interaction between pentadecadal (50.4 years) and bidecadal (18.7 years) oscillatory modes. Removal of these two modes of variance from our GOA time series does indeed remove the twentieth century shifts, but many are still identified prior to the twentieth century. Our analysis suggests that climate variability of the GOA is very complex, and that much more work is required to understand the underlying oscillatory behavior that is observed in instrumental and proxy records from the North Pacific region.
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.
Dataset Citation
  • Cite as: Wilson, R.J.S.; Zweck, C.; Wiles, G.; D'Arrigo, R.D. (2007-07-01): NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Wilson 2007 Gulf of Alaska 1300 Year Temperature Reconstruction. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. https://doi.org/10.25921/qbbh-1v29. Accessed [date].
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Cited Authors
  • Wilson, R.J.S.
  • Zweck, C.
  • Wiles, G.
  • D'Arrigo, R.D.
Originators
  • Wilson, R.J.S.
  • Zweck, C.
  • Wiles, G.
  • D'Arrigo, R.D.
Publishers
  • NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Theme keywords Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
  • Earth Science > Climate Indicators > Paleoclimate Indicators > Paleoclimate Reconstructions
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
  • earth science > paleoclimate > climate reconstructions|tree ring
  • earth science > paleoclimate > climate reconstructions|tree ring
  • earth science > paleoclimate > reconstructions > air temperature
  • earth science > paleoclimate > reconstructions
  • Air Temperature Reconstruction
  • PAGES 2k Network
  • PAGES Arctic 2k
Paleoenvironmental Standard Terms (PaST) Thesaurus
  • What: age; Material: null
  • What: temperature; Material: null
Data Center keywords Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords
  • DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Place keywords
  • Ocean > Pacific Ocean > North Pacific Ocean > Gulf Of Alaska > Gulf of Alaska > LATITUDE > LONGITUDE
Use Constraints
  • Cite as: Wilson, R.J.S.; Zweck, C.; Wiles, G.; D'Arrigo, R.D. (2007-07-01): NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Wilson 2007 Gulf of Alaska 1300 Year Temperature Reconstruction. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. https://doi.org/10.25921/qbbh-1v29. Accessed [date].
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