D'Arrigo / Davi / Jacoby Dendroclimatic Studies

Tree Growth and Climate Change in Northern Forests
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-84871-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 88 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Special Publications

A top priority in climate research is obtaining broad-extent andlong-term data to support analyses of historical patterns andtrends, and for model development and evaluation. Along withdirectly measured climate data from the present and recent past, itis important to obtain estimates of long past climate variationsspanning multiple centuries and millennia.
Dendroclimatic Studies at the North American TreeLine presents an overview of the current state ofdendroclimatology, its contributions over the past few decades, andits future potential. The material included is not useful not onlyto those who generate tree-ring records of pastclimate-dendroclimatologists, but also to users of theirresults-climatologists, hydrologists, ecologists andarcheologists.
In summary, this book:
* Sheds light on recent and future climate trends by assessinglong term past climatic variations from tree rings
* Is a timely coverage of a crucial topic in climate scienceportraying recent warming trends which are of serious concerntoday
* Features well-reputed scientists highlighting new advancedmethodologies to reconstruct past climate change
* Models the tree growth environmental response

Autoren/Hrsg.

D'Arrigo, Rosanne

Davi, Nicole

Jacoby, Gordon

Wilson, Rob

Wiles, Greg

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface v
Acknowledgments vii
1. Introduction 1
1.1. Overview 1
1.2. Basic Tree-Ring Principles 1
1.3. Polar Amplification of Global Warming and Impacts onForests 3
1.4. "Northern Archive" Synthesis 6
2. Tree-Ring Investigations at Northern Latitudes 7
2.1. Initial Studies 7
2.2. Site Selection 8
2.3. Tree-Ring Parameters and Processing: Ring Width and MaximumLatewood Density 9
3. Selected Local to Regional TRL-LDEO Northern Tree-RingStudies 13
4. The Broader Context of Northern Dendroclimatic Studies19
4.1. North America 19
4.2. Eurasia 21
4.3. Tree-Ring Chronology Networks 21
5. Temperature Reconstructions for the Northern Hemisphere23
5.1. Initial Attempts 23
5.2. Evolution of NH Temperature Reconstructions 25
5.3. Reconstructed NH Temperature Trends 31
5.4. Standardization of NH Tree-Ring Temperature Reconstructions33
6. Tree Growth Issues in the Anthropogenic Era: CO2Fertilization and the "Divergence Problem" 37
6.1. CO2 Fertilization 37
6.2. The Divergence Problem 38
7. Conclusions and Future Challenges 43
Glossary 51
References 57
Core TRL-LDEO Publications on Northern Forests 67
Index 75
Color plate section is located between pages 36 and37.

Über Autor(innen)

Rosanne D'Arrigo, Lamont-Doherty EarthObservatory, Columbia University, USA
Nicole Davi, William Paterson University andLamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA
Gordon Jacoby, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,Columbia University, USA
Rob Wilson, University of St. Andrews, UK andLamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA
Greg Wiles, The College of Wooster and Lamont-DohertyEarth Observatory, Columbia University, USA