Data

Check the International Tree Ring Databank for >75 tree ring collections. Browse the NOAA National Climate Data Center for paleoclimatic reconstructions.

Data in the HF Archive

Tree Ring Data from Goose Egg State Forest NY 1681-2014

Tree Ring Data from North Round Pond in Pisgah State Forest NH 1754-2015

Tree Ring Data from the Harvard Tract in Pisgah State Forest NH 1675-2015

Tree Ring Data from Rooster Hill in Adirondack State Park NY 1828-2015

Tree Ring Data from the Harvard Forest EMS Tower 1896-2014

Tree Ring Data from the Lyford Mapped Tree Plot at Harvard Forest 1861-2014

Cleaned Version of the International Tree-Ring Databank

As a lab group project, we  cleaned the entire International Tree-Ring Databank to reduces difficulties in using the >4000 tree-ring collections distributed around the globe.

• Data are publicly available here
• The data are a product of the Zhao et al. paper.

Reference:

* Zhao, S., N. Pederson, L. D’Orangeville, J. HilleRisLambers, E. Boose, C. Penone, B. Bauer, Y. Jiang, and R. Manzanedo. 2018. The International Tree Ring Data Bank (ITRDB) revisited: Data availability and global ecological representativity. Journal of Biogeography 10.1111/jbi.13488 Revised ITRDB available here.

Mongol Empire Ring Width & Climate Data

• Metadata – Khorgo Lava, Mongolia PISI metadata
• ITRDB metadata, stats, etc.
• Direct ITRDB raw ring width data link
• scPDSI data van der Schier monthly scPDSI (*.xls format – sorry, WordPress doesn’t allow txt or csv formats)
• Full paleoclimate reconstruction of scPDSI

Reference:
Neil Pederson, Amy E. Hessl,[Joint Lead Authors] – Nachin Baatarbileg, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, and Nicola Di Cosmo. 2014. Pluvials, droughts, the Mongol Empire, and modern Mongolia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(12), 4375-4379. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1318677111

Kherlen Gol streamflow reconstruction, Mongolia

• streamflow reconstruction, NOAA/WDC paleo archive

Reference:
Nicole K. Davi, Neil Pederson, Caroline Leland, Baatarbileg Nachin, Byambagerel Suran, Gordon C. Jacoby. 2013. Is eastern Mongolia drying? A long-term perspective of a multidecadal trend. Water Resources Research 49: 151-158. DOI: 10.1029/2012WR011834

New York City Watershed PDSI Reconstruction

• Reconstructed PDSI, NOAA/WDC paleo archive

Reference:
Neil Pederson, Andrew R. Bell, Edward R. Cook, Upmanu Lall, Naresh Devineni, Richard Seager, Keith Eggleston, and Kevin J. Vranes. 2013. Is an Epic Pluvial Masking the Water Insecurity of the Greater New York City Region? Journal of Climate 26: 1339-1354 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00723.1

 Yeruu Gol streamflow reconstruction, Mongolia

• streamflow reconstruction, NOAA/WDC paleo archive

Reference:
Neil Pederson, Caroline Leland, Baatabileg Nachin, Amy E. Hessl, Andrew R. Bell, Dario Martin-Benito, Tom Saladyga, Byamba Suran, Peter M. Brown, Nicole K. Davi. 2012. Three centuries of shifting hydroclimatic regimes across the Mongolian Breadbasket. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 178-179: 10-20. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.07.003.

Atlanta Watershed & western Georgia PDSI Reconstruction

• Reconstructed PDSI, NOAA/WDC paleo archive

Reference:
Neil Pederson, Andrew R. Bell, Troy A. Knight, Caroline Leland, Nathan Malcomb, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Kacie Tackett, James Scheff, Andrew Brice, Bradly Catron, Will Blozan, and Jess Riddle. 2012. A long-term perspective on a modern drought in the American Southeast. Environmental Research Letters 7: 014034. DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014034