Program Activities (2003 and later)
This is a partial list of activities, mostly with external partners, designed to produce improved and expanded data sets needed to meet specific science objectives
Title: Database of Arctic climate variability for the past 2,000 years
Relates to these initiatives: CCSP Research activities
External partners: K. Hughen, M. Duvall, P. Huybers
Paleo participants: W. Gross, J. Keltner
Begin date: 2003
End date: Ongoing
Description: This is an NSF-funded project to synthesize existing paleoclimate records of Arctic climate variability for the past 2,000 years, and analyze the data to understand processes and trends. The project will produce 140 new time series of annually to decadally-resolved climate and environmental variability.
Title: Archive of data cited in IPCC Paleoclimatology chapter
Relates to these initiatives: IPCC
External partners: J. Overpeck, E. Jansen
Paleo participants: C. Woodhouse, D. Anderson
Begin date: 2005
End date: Ongoing
Description: This project will provide an electronic archive of the data cited in the Paleoclimate chapter of the upcoming 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report.
Title: Tree Ring Quality Control Project
Relates to these initiatives: NOAA ARC
External partners: J. Lucas, Henry Adams (University of Colorado)
Paleo participants: C. Woodhouse, B. Bauer, M. Hartman
Begin date: April 2004
End date: August 2005
Description: This project completed the quality control assessment on all tree-ring measurements files in the International Tree-Ring Data Bank. Quality control reports are all available online, along with interpretative information for the reports. In addition, standards for assessing the quality of contributed tree-ring data have been set to provide guidance to database managers.
Title: Improved Access to fire history data
Relates to these initiatives: CCSP, NOAA ARC
External partners: Elaine Sutherland (USDA) and Henri Grissino-Mayer (UTK)
Paleo participants: C. Woodhouse, M. Hartman, W. Gross
Begin date: 2005
End date: Ongoing
Description: The activity builds on previous work that generated a paleofire database (International Multiproxy Paleofire Database, IMPD). The IMPD is currently a research database, and the goal of this project will be to convert a set of tools for the analysis and display of fire scar data into user-friendly, web-based tools that will enable non-specialists to examine and analyze the IMPD fire scar data.
Title: Archive of abrupt climate change data
Relates to these initiatives: CCSP Synthesis and Assessment Report
External partners: T. Cronin (USGS)
Paleo participants: D. Anderson
Begin date: 2005
End date: Ongoing
Description: This project will expand the archive of paleoclimate data, providing data to be cited in the upcoming CCSP Synthesis and Assessment report on abrupt climate change.
Title: Reconstructions of Streamflow from Tree Rings
Relates to these initiatives: CCSP, NOAA ARC
External partners: J. Lukas (CU), Robert S. Webb (NOAA-CDC), David Meko (UAZ), Stephen Gray (USGS), NOAA Western Water Assessment RISA, Denver Water, Northern Colorado Water Conservation District, Colorado Office of the State Engineer, US Bureau of Reclamation
Paleo participants: C. Woodhouse
Begin date: 2002
End date: ongoing
Description: This project encompasses a set of efforts to reconstruction records of past hydrology for streamflow gages of interest to water resource managers at the local, state and Federal level. The TreeFlow web site currently contains reconstructions, gage, and meta data for 22 gages on the S. Platte, Arkansas, Rio Grande, and Colorado Rivers. Data for 10 additional gages in the Green, Colorado, Gunnison, and San Juan River basins will soon be added. The web site includes a tutorial for the methods used to reconstruct streamflow from tree-ring data.
