FOR 496/796 Introduction to Dendrochronology

Items

• Henri D. Grissino-Mayer's - Science of Dendrochronology Web Pages (http://web.utk.edu/~grissino/)
• ITRDB Dendrochronology Forum Archives (http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/itrdbfor.html)

• Software Used In Dendrochronology (All software discussed below available at this web page)
  http://web.utk.edu/~grissino/software.htm
• The Dendrochronology Program Library (http://www.ltrr.arizona.edu/pub/dpl/)
  with Individual program descriptions (http://www.ltrr.arizona.edu/pub/dpl/A-INFO.HTM)
• Useful for Cross-dating
  • PAST - Personal Analysis System for Tree-Ring Research (http://www.sciem.com/main.html)
  • CDendro - Cybis dendro dating program (http://www.cybis.se/forfun/dendro/index.htm)
• Useful for tree-ring measurements using scanned images
  • Cybis CooRecorder - Image Coordinate Recording program (http://www.cybis.se/forfun/dendro/index.htm)
• Useful for Standardization and Chronology building
  
  • COFECHA Dating & measurement quality control
  • ARSTAN Chronology development with statistical analysis
• Data management and format conversion
  
  • FMT Manipulate data, change format
  • CASE Convert column (casewise) data to compact format
  • YUX Produce column (casewise) file

Labs:

Term Project data:

Handouts:

• Software resources used in Dendrochronology
• ARSTAN Program Description
• Current controversy from Tree-Ring list serv

Tree-ring Datasets:

• International data sets
  • International Tree-Ring data bank
• Local datasets for this course
  • Undated Ringwidth measurements of samples used in Lab3 (samples_undated.rwl)
  • Dated Ringwidth measurements of samples used in Lab3 (samples_dated.rwl)
  • Standardized chronology developed from ringwidth measurements of samples used in Lab3 (samples_std.rwl)
  • White pine sample 10a used to demonstrate ARSTAN program analysis and output (10a.rwl)
  • Ring-width measurements of samples from Nelson Swamp for term project (still to come)

Climate data:

• National Climatic Data Center