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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1151-2022
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Research article
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24 May 2022
Research article |
| 24 May 2022
| 24 May 2022
Prospects for dendroanatomy in paleoclimatology – a case study on Picea engelmannii from the Canadian Rockies
Kristina Seftigen
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Regional Climate Group, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Dendrosciences, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Marina V. Fonti
Dendrosciences, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Institute of Ecology and Geography, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
Brian Luckman
Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 3K7, Canada
Miloš Rydval
Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Petter Stridbeck
Regional Climate Group, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Georg von Arx
Dendrosciences, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Rob Wilson
University of St Andrews, Queen's Terrace, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9TS, UK
Jesper Björklund
Dendrosciences, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Benchmarking Blue Intensity from drought limited Pinus sylvestris using tree-ring anatomy K. Seftigen et al. 10.1016/j.dendro.2025.126367
- Study of wood cells helps bring past climates to life A. McDermott 10.1073/pnas.2209636119
- Blue intensity of Swiss stone pine as a high-frequency temperature proxy in the Alps R. Cerrato et al. 10.1007/s10342-023-01566-9
- Asymmetric impacts of El Niño-Southern Oscillation on summer temperature over the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, as revealed by the blue intensity of Picea purpurea S. Qiao et al. 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104381
- Multiproxy tree ring reconstruction of glacier mass balance: insights from Pinus cembra trees growing near Silvretta Glacier (Swiss Alps) J. Lopez-Saez et al. 10.5194/cp-20-1251-2024
- Multi-century mean summer temperature variations in the Southern Rhaetian Alps reconstructed from Larix decidua blue intensity data R. Cerrato et al. 10.5194/cp-21-609-2025
- Towards ROXAS AI: automatic multi-species ring boundaries segmentation as regression in anatomical images M. Katzenmaier et al. 10.3389/fpls.2025.1516635
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Short summary
New proxies and improvements in existing methodologies are needed to advance paleoclimate research. This study explored dendroanatomy, the analysis of wood anatomical parameters in dated tree rings, of Engelmann spruce from the Columbia Icefield area, Canada, as a proxy of past temperatures. Our new parameters compare favorably with state of the art proxy parameters from X-ray and visible light techniques, particularly with respect to the temporal stability of the temperature signal.
New proxies and improvements in existing methodologies are needed to advance paleoclimate...
