Sentences with phrase «larch samples»
The study used 7284 oak samples from France and Germany to see how moisture showed up in tree rings and nearly 1500 different stone pine and larch samples from high altitudes in Austria to establish a separate temperature record.
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Using nearly 9000 samples from oak, pine and larch, Büntgen and colleagues were able to reconstruct how temperatures and rainfall in western Europe changed over the last 2500 years.
The decision to exclude the Khadyta River Larch (or «khadytla») sample was not based on comparison with instrumental data and hence not on the basis that it had a non-climate signal.
Perhaps the dendropaleoclimate folks should be extracting their core samples from prunus cerasus instead of bristlecones and Yamal larch.
What I see from these deconstructions is that one algorithm will have difficulty fitting all tree ring ages (at least for the Yamal larches) and if that is the case I wonder if there has been any thought in the dendro community of increasing sample sizes so that only a certain segment of tree ring ages is used?