Linking Oxford's Climate
This topic submitted by Shawn Seiler ( silo610@hotmail.com ) on 2/23/00 .
I know we talked about using tree rings to determine the climate of a specific area in class, but I would like to pursue the idea. If it is possible, I would like to take many tree cores from the oxford area. I would then use the rings and climatological data for the oxford area (there is a lot of climatological data in the document department in King Library) to examine any possible patterns of cycles in the two forms of data. I would need to do research on what factors cause the trees to have good growing seasons (temp, sunlight, water, etc). The climatological data can be analyzed for cyclic patterns in it as well. Other data that I could use could be solar observations, CO2 emissions, ???. The fact that there are virgin patches of forest in the area can be an asset to peer back a couple hundred years into the climate of Oxford. I haven't seen how far back the climatolgical data goes back, but I saw the records from the 1920s. This may be able to show a more in depth look at the climate from a daily record instead of monthly or yearly. So instead of seeing a monthly or yearly rainfall which can be misleading to the actual climate of the region (Ethiopia gets as much rainfall as Ohio does except that it is all at once, and Ohio's is spread out which is more suited for plant growth) the daily data could be implemented to get a more clear picture of the climate. It's just a preliminary idea, but I think it ought to be pretty cool.
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