Gridded Snow Water Equivalent Reconstruction for Utah Using Forest Inventory and Analysis Tree-Ring Data

Daniel Barandiaran; S.-Y. Wang; R. DeRose

doi:10.3390/w9060403

Gridded Snow Water Equivalent Reconstruction for Utah Using Forest Inventory and Analysis Tree-Ring Data

Water ◽

10.3390/w9060403 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (6) ◽

pp. 403

Author(s):

Daniel Barandiaran ◽

S.-Y. Wang ◽

R. DeRose

Keyword(s):

Tree Ring ◽

Forest Inventory ◽

Snow Water Equivalent ◽

Forest Inventory And Analysis ◽

Tree Ring Data ◽

Snow Water

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Building the Forest Inventory and Analysis Tree-Ring Data Set

Journal of Forestry ◽

10.5849/jof.15-097 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 115 (4) ◽

pp. 283-291 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Robert J. DeRose ◽

John D. Shaw ◽

James N. Long

Keyword(s):

Tree Ring ◽

Forest Inventory ◽

Data Set ◽

Forest Inventory And Analysis ◽

Tree Ring Data

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Feasibility of High-Density Climate Reconstruction Based on Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Collected Tree-Ring Data

Journal of Hydrometeorology ◽

10.1175/jhm-d-12-0124.1 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 375-381 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

R. Justin DeRose ◽

Shih-Yu Wang ◽

John D. Shaw

Keyword(s):

Tree Ring ◽

Forest Inventory ◽

Decadal Variability ◽

Southern Oscillation ◽

Temporal Coherence ◽

Spatial Density ◽

Forest Inventory And Analysis ◽

Climate Proxy ◽

Pine Tree ◽

Tree Ring Data

Abstract This study introduces a novel tree-ring dataset, with unparalleled spatial density, for use as a climate proxy. Ancillary Douglas fir and piñon pine tree-ring data collected by the U.S. Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis Program (FIA data) were subjected to a series of tests to determine their feasibility as climate proxies. First, temporal coherence between the FIA data and previously published tree-ring chronologies was found to be significant. Second, spatial and temporal coherence between the FIA data and water year precipitation was strong. Third, the FIA data captured the El Niño–Southern Oscillation dipole and revealed considerable latitudinal fluctuation over the past three centuries. Finally, the FIA data confirmed the quadrature-phase coupling between wet/dry cycles and Pacific decadal variability known to exist for the Intermountain West. The results highlight the possibility of further developing high-spatial-resolution climate proxy datasets for the western United States. (The preliminary FIA data are provided online at http://cliserv.jql.usu.edu/FIAdata/ in both station and gridded format.)

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Reconstructing past forest status using inventory and tree ring data to support uneven-aged forest management

Central European Forestry Journal ◽

10.1515/forj-2017-0022 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 63 (4) ◽

pp. 203-211 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ladislav Kulla ◽

Michal Bošeľa ◽

Vlastimil Murgaš ◽

Joerg Roessiger ◽

Vladimír Šebeň

Keyword(s):

Forest Management ◽

Tree Ring ◽

Forest Inventory ◽

Management System ◽

Inventory Data ◽

Diameter Increment ◽

Forest Inventory Data ◽

Tree Ring Data ◽

Species Specific ◽

Forest Status

Abstract The decision to change forest management system from the traditional even-aged to the selection one based on statistical inventory is often limited by a missing previous inventory. To avoid this issue, we used available forest inventory data from ca 2 000 ha of mixed uneven-aged beech-fir-spruce-pine forest and tree ring data from 831 trees to reconstruct forest status from one decade ago. For this purpose, we have created three sets of species-specific models: 1) diameter-stump models to reconstruct the diameter of missing trees, 2) diameter-increment models based on tree ring data to estimate past diameters, and 3) height-diameter models to estimate past tree heights. This approach has allowed us to completely reconstruct the state of the forest as it was ten years ago and use the results as a substitution for a previously missing inventory.

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