Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Tree Rings as Proxy record

Figure 1: Many people know that you can tell the age of a tree through counting the rings, but some do not realize that those rings can also be used to tell the climate of the time. For example, thicker rings represent higher precipitation years as that tree grew more during that time. The downside to tree rings is that they are not as long living as some others such as ice cores and ocean sediments.

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