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Ramzi Touchan University of Arizona
Photograph: Ramzi TouchanMonday, March 7, 2011
Dendroclimatology in Algeria
Photograph: Ramzi TouchanMonday, March 7, 2011
Source: Ramzi Touchan, University of ArizonaMonday, March 7, 2011
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ENVIRONMENTALQUESTIONS
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forest fires
floods
earthquakes
rising temperatures
insect ecologywater quantity
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CLIMATERECONSTRUCTION
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Source: Hughes and Funkhouser, 1998
tree rings
rain gauges
empirical comparisons between tree-ring and climate data
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Ring-width index
correlation coefficients as a measure of climate signal
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Correlation functions illustrating assocations between tree growth and climate
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‘Reconstructing climate’ based on statistical associations
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R E C O N S T R U C T I N G T E M P E R AT U R E
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2010 Jan-Aug temperature anomaly h"p://www.giss.nasa.gov/Monday, March 7, 2011
Photograph: MariannaMonday, March 7, 2011
NASA global temperature record h"p://www.giss.nasa.gov/Monday, March 7, 2011
Temperature-sensitive trees Northeastern AlaskaMonday, March 7, 2011
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Brian Luckman University of Western Ontario
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St. George, S., and Luckman, B.H. 2001. Extracting a paleotemperature record from Picea engelmannii treeline sites in the central Canadian Rockies. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 31, 457-470.
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Source: St. George and Luckman, 2001Monday, March 7, 2011
THE PRINCIPLE OF ECOLOGICAL AMPLITUDEA tree species may grow and reproduce over a certain range of habitats; that range is described as its ecological amplitude. Trees that grow near the margins or limits of their ecological amplitude are o!en sensitive to changes in their environment.
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empirical comparisons
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Source: St. George and Luckman, 2001Monday, March 7, 2011
“HIGH”and
“LOW”FREQUENCY
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Photograph: Gigi TagliapietraMonday, March 7, 2011
Photograph: protographer23
“HIGH” FREQUENCY
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Photograph: Phil Moore
“LOW” FREQUENCY
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Source: St. George and Luckman, 2001Monday, March 7, 2011
Source: St. George and Luckman, 2001Monday, March 7, 2011
Source: St. George and Luckman, 2001Monday, March 7, 2011
CORRELATIONFUNCTION
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Source: St. George and Luckman, 2001Monday, March 7, 2011
Source: St. George and Luckman, 2001Monday, March 7, 2011
Source: St. George and Luckman, 2001Monday, March 7, 2011
Source: St. George and Luckman, 2001Monday, March 7, 2011
Source: St. George and Luckman, 2001
most sites
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Source: St. George and Luckman, 2001
most sites
furthestnorth
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Source: St. George and Luckman, 2001
most sites
‘oddball’ site
furthestnorth
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LINEARREGRESSION
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Source: St. George and Luckman, 2001Monday, March 7, 2011
Source: D’Arrigo et al., 2006Monday, March 7, 2011
Source: D’Arrigo et al., 2006Monday, March 7, 2011
Source: Osborne and Briffa, 2006Monday, March 7, 2011
Source: Osborne and Briffa, 2006Monday, March 7, 2011
LINEARREGRESSION
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Source: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007Monday, March 7, 2011
Photograph: Mark AnbinderMonday, March 7, 2011
SURFACE TEMPERATURERECONSTRUCTIONSFOR THE LAST 2 ,000 YEARS
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCILOF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
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the ‘divergence problem’ is defined as the tendency for tree growth at some previously temperature-limited northern sites to demonstrate a weakening in mean temperature response in recent decades.
Source: D’Arrigo et al., 2008Monday, March 7, 2011
Source: D’Arrigo et al., 2008Monday, March 7, 2011
“Trees are not thermometers or rain gagues.” Keith Briffa and colleagues
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Source: D’Arrigo et al., 2008Monday, March 7, 2011
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