5. Past Changes in Climate and Tree Growth in the Western Americas 85
comparative study of tree rings from North and South America. These
include ENSO, high-latitude forest response to climatic change, and CO 2 -
induced growth enhancement. Tree-ring records from both Americas
provide high-resolution , precisely dated information on past climate and
tree-growth changes over prior centuries to millenia. As such, they are a
valuable resource that could be exploited for AMIGO's comparative
studies of forest ecosystems and their responses to global change.
Acknowledgments. We thank two anonymous reviewers for comments
that improved the manuscript. This chapter was written with support
from the Climate Dynamics Program of the National Science Foundation,
Grant No. ATM89-15353 . It is based on a presentation given at the
AMIGO Meeting, September 21-26, 1992, Vancouver Island, British
Columbia, Canada. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Contribution No.
5346.
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Conkey, L.E. 1986. Red spruce tree-ring widths and densities in eastern North
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Unpublished doctoral dissertation , University of Arizona , Tucson, AZ.
comparative study of tree rings from North and South America. These
include ENSO, high-latitude forest response to climatic change, and CO 2 -
induced growth enhancement. Tree-ring records from both Americas
provide high-resolution , precisely dated information on past climate and
tree-growth changes over prior centuries to millenia. As such, they are a
valuable resource that could be exploited for AMIGO's comparative
studies of forest ecosystems and their responses to global change.
Acknowledgments. We thank two anonymous reviewers for comments
that improved the manuscript. This chapter was written with support
from the Climate Dynamics Program of the National Science Foundation,
Grant No. ATM89-15353 . It is based on a presentation given at the
AMIGO Meeting, September 21-26, 1992, Vancouver Island, British
Columbia, Canada. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Contribution No.
5346.
References
Aceituno, P. 1988. On the functioning of the Southern Oscillation in the South
American sector. Part I: Surface climate. Man WeaRev, 116, 505...:524.
Blasing, T.J., and Fritts , H .C. 1975. Past climate of Alaska and northwestern
Canada as reconstructed from tree-rings. In G. Weller and S.A. Bowling
(eds.), Climate of the Arctic (pp. 48-58). Fairbanks, AK: Geophysical Institute , University of Alaska.
Boninsegna, J.A. 1988. Santiago de Chile winter rainfall since 1200 as reconstructed by tree rings. Quat J SAm Antarc Pen.
Boninsegna, J.A . South American dendroclimatological records. In R.S. Bradley
and P.D. Jones (eds.), Climate since A.D. 1500 (pp. 446-462) . London:
Routledge.
Boninsegna, J.A., Keegan, J., Jacoby, G.C ., D'Arrigo, R.D., and Holmes, R .L.
1990. Dendrochronologica l studies in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Quat J S
Am Antarc Pen, 7, 305-326.
Briffa, K.R., Jones, P.D ., and Schweingruber, F.H . 1992. Tree-ring density
reconstructions of summer temperature patterns across western North America
since 1600. J Clim, 5, 735-754.
Bryson, R.A . 1966. Air masses, streamlines, and the boreal forest. Geog Bull, 8,
228-269 .
Buckley, B.M. , D'Arrigo , R.D., and Jacoby, G.C . 1991. Tree-ring records
as indicators of air-sea interaction in the northeast Pacific sector. In K.T.
Redmond (ed.), Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting on Pacific Climate
(PACLIM), March 1991 (pp. 35-45). Monterey, CA: Interagency Ecological
Studies Program , Technical Report 31.
Cayan, D.R. 1980. Large-scale relationships between sea surface temperature and
surface air temperature . Man Weath Rev, 108, 1293-1301.
Cleaveland, M.K. , Cook, E.R., and Stahle, D.W. 1992. In H . Diaz and V.
Markgraf (eds.), El Nino. Historical and PaleoclimaticAspects of the Southern
Oscillation (pp. 271-291). Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press.
Conkey, L.E. 1986. Red spruce tree-ring widths and densities in eastern North
America as indicators of past climate. Quat Res, 26, 232-243 .
Cook, E.R . 1985. A time series analysis approach to tree-ring standardization.
Unpublished doctoral dissertation , University of Arizona , Tucson, AZ.