dendroclimatology

These standardized measurements are the meat and potatoes of dendroclimatology.

Reading the article you would form the impression that dendroclimatology was basically sound science with a few small wrinkles still to be settled.

These variations are used in dendroclimatology to infer past climate variations.

Then one is justified in extending the dendroclimatology inferences to areas where no suitable tree ring samples are obtainable.

Along with the advantages of dendroclimatology are some limitations: confounding factors, geographic coverage, annular resolution, and collection difficulties.

One such method, based on principles of dendroclimatology, uses the width and other characteristics of tree rings to infer temperature.

Paleoclimatology seeks to reconstruct past climates by examining records such as ice cores and tree rings (dendroclimatology).

Individual proxy records, such as tree ring widths and densities used in dendroclimatology, are calibrated against the instrumental record for the period of overlap.

Briffa's preferred method is dendroclimatology, which is a set of procedures intended to decode information about the past climate from tree rings.

The importance of understanding posited global warming from man-made CO, has moved dendroclimatology from a sleepy science to a high-profile field.

He then became senior research associate (1999) of the laboratory of dendroclimatology in the V.N. Sukachev Institute.

Dendroclimatology suggests that severe droughts ravaged the American Southwest and especially the Southern Plains early in the period, leading to a rapid cultural decline.

The divergence problem is an anomaly from the field of dendroclimatology, the study of past climate through observations of old trees, primarily the properties of their annual growth rings.

Acanthochronology is closely related to dendrochronology, dendroclimatology and isotope geochemistry and borrows many of the methods and techniques from these sub-disciplines of the Earth Sciences.

Sophisticated statistical methods had already been applied to dendroclimatology, but to get wider geographical coverage these tree ring records had to be related to sparser proxies such as ice cores, corals and lake sediments.

The panel was also stated that "Although we deplore the tone of much of the criticism that has been directed at CRU, we believe that this questioning of the methods and data used in dendroclimatology will ultimately have a beneficial effect and improve working practices."