Rosanne D'Arrigo, Nicole Davi, Gordon Jacoby, Rob Wilson, Greg Wiles

Dendroclimatic Studies (eBook, PDF)

Tree Growth and Climate Change in Northern Forests

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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. Dendroclimatic Studies at the North American Tree Line presents an overview of the current state of dendroclimatology, its contributions over the past few decades, and its future potential. The material included is not 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. In summary, this book: * Sheds light on recent and future climate trends by assessing long term past climatic variations from tree rings * Is a timely coverage of a crucial topic in climate science portraying recent warming trends which are of serious concern today * Features well-reputed scientists highlighting new advanced methodologies to reconstruct past climate change * Models the tree growth environmental response

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118848760
• Artikelnr.: 40529962

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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 on Forests 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
Maximum Latewood Density 9 3. Selected Local to Regional TRL-LDEO Northern
Tree-Ring Studies 13 4. The Broader Context of Northern Dendroclimatic
Studies 19 4.1. North America 19 4.2. Eurasia 21 4.3. Tree-Ring Chronology
Networks 21 5. Temperature Reconstructions for the Northern Hemisphere 23
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 Reconstructions 33 6. Tree Growth Issues in the
Anthropogenic Era: CO2 Fertilization 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 and 37.