Final 1--Assesing Oxford's Change in Climate using Dendrochronology
This topic submitted by Shawn Seiler ( silo610@hotmail.com ) on 3/29/00 .
I am going to analyze Oxford's climate over the last x years to determine what type of shifts are occuring in this area. I am going to sample conifer tree cores from the Oxford area. I will then cross date them to get a master chronology, by using skeleton plots. Once I have the master chronology I will be able to see years that were of lean growth and those where growth was rich. For the last one hundred years there is climatological data that will show how much it rained in this area. This can be linked with the master chronolology to see the affects of more, or less rain on Oxford. Also, I would like to assess the affects that more or less incoming solar radiation has on tree growth. My main point of analyzation for the oxford area is to analyze if the increased amount of carbon dioxide that has been emmitted since the industrial revolution has had an increasing effect on tree growth. I think that since we are in a temperate zone, with naturally rich forests, that precipitaion is not going to be a limiting factor, so that if there was a year that was dry, it would prominatly show up in the dendrochronologic record. The Sun spots, having a known pattern, may also show up in the tree ring record. I believe that the increasing Co2 from industrial sources will have an increased growing effect on the trees of the oxford area.
For Further Info on this Topic, Check out this WWW Site: http://tree.ltrr.arizona.edu/skeletonplot/introcrossdate.htm .
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