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| High-resolution Paleoclimatology | |
| What is high-resolution paleoclimatology? | |
| What are its major achievements? | |
| What opportunities and challenges does it now face? | |
| What should dendroclimatology's role be in this? | |
| Dendroclimatology in high-resolution Paleoclimatology | |
| An overview of the development of dendroclimatology and an introduction to the questions posed in this book | |
| Scientific bases of dendroclimatology | |
| How well understood are the processes that create tree-ring records? | |
| Starting at the most basic level of the environmental control of tree-ring formation, do | |
| we have the necessary biological and ecophysiological understanding of this to support inferences about climate variability from tree rings? | |
| What are the weak points of this understanding and how might they be strengthened? | |
| The state of the art of quantitative methods in dendroclimatology | |
| How sound are the quantitative techniques commonly used in dendroclimatology, in chronology building, identification and reconstruction of climate variables and the checking of these reconstructions? | |
| Are they appropriate to the material being analyzed and to the climatological problems being addressed? How might they be improved? | |
| Detecting low-frequency change using tree rings | |
| What limits the ability of tree-ring records to faithfully record climate variability at low frequencies (multi-centennial to millennial)? | |
| How might those limitations be overcome, if at all? | |
| What are the advantages and limitations of older and more novel approaches? | |
| What are the implications of these limitations? Reconstruction of climate patterns and values relative to today's climate | |
| Dendroclimatology at regional and continental scales | |
| What have been the major contributions of dendroclimatology to climatology so far? | |
| In what regions and for which climate problems is exciting progress now being made? | |
| What next? | |
| Dendroclimatology at hemispheric and global scales | |
| What are the achievements of dendroclimatology as applied at hemispheric and global scales - climate patterns, circulation indices and large-scale means? | |
| What are the limitations of this approach? | |
| How might they be overcome? | |
| How might dendroclimatology contribute to the study of central pressing problems such as "How big is climate sensitivity"? | |
| How has the last century, and especially recent decades, compared with earlier centuries? | |
| How faithful a representation of variability in recent centuries does the 20th century instrumental record give? | |
| Particular attention will be given to: a) identifying the most robust findings; and b) the most serious limitations | |
| Dendroclimatology, dendrohydrology and water resources management | |
| How may dendroclimatology contribute to the study of water resources? | |
| How may it be used to inform modern public and decision-maker expectations of climate variability? | |
| Dendroclimatology and the ecosystem impacts of climate | |
| How has dendroclimatology contributed to disturbance ecology? | |
| What is the significance of the recent changes in tree-growth-climate relationships observed in some regions, not only for dendroclimatology, but also for the understanding of the impacts of climate variability and change on ecosystems? | |
| Dendroclimatology and the understanding of the interactions between climate variability and ancient human societies - D. Stahle and J. Dean | |
| How has dendroclimatology contributed to understanding of the relationships between climate variability and societies in ancient times? | |
| Tree rings and climate- sharpening the focus - M. K. Hughes, H. F. Diaz and Th. W. Swetnam | |
| What has been learned, using tree rings, about natural climate variability and its environmental and social impacts? | |
| What are the most significant strengths and w | |
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