Climatic reconstruction in R: Using tree ring
Climatic reconstruction in R: Using tree ring
Tree rings reveal effects of climate change
Rings in tree trunks offer a window into the depths of the climatic past to demonstrate how the climate of the last half century deviated far from historical norms dating back thousands of years. However, the rings in the tree trunks provide a much more complete historical picture of climatic variations. As trees age, they grow from the center outward, and each year a new circle of dead wood is created around the trunk of most trees. In that ring you can find information related to precipitation, temperature and other data for that year. Reading the weather stories these trees tell will help forecast what's to come. "These data help build a more reliable model of climate change." In the 1930s, A. E. Douglass, an astronomer who turned to trees to better understand the connection between sunspots and climate, founded the Tree Ring Research Laboratory at the University of Arizona, Tucson campus.
In this course you will learn how to perform a climate reconstruction from tree rings. Statistical packages will be used to help us build the master chronology through DplR and to know the correlation of climatic factors we will use the Treeclim package in R and finally we will model our climatic reconstruction in R.
Dendroclimatology
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What you will learn
- Section 1. Dendrochronology, dendroclimatology, dendrohydrology, dendroecology, dendroglaciology and dendroarchaeology
- Section 2. Sample collection and laboratory
- Section 3. Wood anatomy (IAWA)
Rating: 4.75
Level: All Levels
Duration: 1 hour
Instructor: Kelly Yohanna Peña Moreno
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