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Dendroclimatology - Progress and Prospects (Hardcover, Edition.)
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Dendroclimatology - Progress and Prospects (Hardcover, Edition.)
Series: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, 11
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A top priority in climate research is obtaining broad-extent and
long-term data to support analyses of historical patterns and
trends, and for model development and evaluation. Along with
directly measured climate data from the present and recent past, it
is important to obtain estimates of long past climate variations
spanning multiple centuries and millennia. These longer time
perspectives are needed for assessing the unusualness of recent
climate changes, as well as for providing insight on the range,
variation and overall dynamics of the climate system over time
spans exceeding available records from instruments, such as rain
gauges and thermometers. Tree rings have become increasingly
valuable in providing this long-term information because extensive
data networks have been developed in temperate and boreal zones of
the Earth, and quantitative methods for analyzing these data have
advanced. Tree rings are among the most useful paleoclimate
information sources available because they provide a high degree of
chronological accuracy, high replication, and extensive spatial
coverage spanning recent centuries. With the expansion and
extension of tree-ring data and analytical capacity new climatic
insights from tree rings are being used in a variety of
applications, including for interpretation of past changes in
ecosystems and human societies. This volume presents an overview of
the current state of dendroclimatology, its contributions over the
last 30 years, and its future potential. The material included is
useful not only to those who generate tree-ring records of past
climate-dendroclimatologists, but also to users of their
results-climatologists, hydrologists, ecologists and archeologists.
'With the pressing climatic questions of the 21st century demanding
a deeper understanding of the climate system and our impact upon
it, this thoughtful volume comes at critical moment. It will be of
fundamental importance in not only guiding researchers, but in
educating scientists and the interested lay person on the both
incredible power and potential pitfalls of reconstructing climate
using tree-ring analysis.', Glen M. MacDonald, UCLA Institute of
the Environment, CA, USA 'This is an up-to-date treatment of all
branches of tree-ring science, by the world's experts in the field,
reminding us that tree rings are the most important source of proxy
data on climate change. Should be read by all budding
dendrochronology scientists.', Alan Robock, Rutgers University, NJ,
USA
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