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January 28, 2016

Uncertainties in tree-ring-based climate reconstructions probed
Otago, New Zealand (SPX) Jan 28, 2016
Current approaches to reconstructing past climate by using tree-ring data need to be improved on so that they can better take uncertainty into account, new research led out of New Zealand's University of Otago suggests. Tree growth rings are commonly used as climate proxies because they can be well-dated and the width of each ring is influenced by the climatic conditions of the year it grew in. In a paper appearing in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, statistics and tree r ... read more

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