Author
Pohl, KellyTherrell, Matthew D.
Blay, Jorge Santiago
Ayotte, Nicole
Hernandez, Jose Jil Cabrera
Castro, Sara Diaz
Oviedo, Eladio Cornejo
Elvir, Jose A.
Elizondo, Martha Gonzales
Opland, Dawn
Park, Jungjae
Salazar, Sergio Bernal
Selem, Lorenzo Vazguez
Diaz, Jose Villanueva
Stahle, David W.
Affiliation
The Nature Conservancy, Boulder, CO 80302Tree-Ring Laboratory, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701
Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20013
Departamento Forestal, Universidad Autonoma Agraria Antonio Narro, Buenavista, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico
Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, S.C., La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico 23090
Department of Forest Ecosystem Science, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469
CIIDIR-IPN UNidad Durango, Durango, Mexico
Geography Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bonzeman, MT 59717
Especialidad de Botanica, Colegio de Postgraduados, Montecillo, Estado de Mexico, Mexico 56230
Istituto de Geografia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Mexico, D. F. Mexico
Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecurias, Gomes Palacio, Duango, Mexico 35140
Issue Date
2003
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This item is part of the Tree-Ring Research (formerly Tree-Ring Bulletin) archive. It was digitized from a physical copy provided by the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at The University of Arizona. For more information about this peer-reviewed scholarly journal, please email the Editor of Tree-Ring Research at editor@treeringsociety.org.Publisher
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Pohl, K., Therrell, M.D., Blay, J.S., Ayotte, N., Hernandez, J.J.C., Castro, S.D., Oviedo, E.C., Elvir, J.A., Elizondo, M.G., Opland, D., Park, J., Pederson, G., Salazar, S.B., Selem, L.V., Diaz, J.V., Stahle, D.W. 2003. A cool-season precipitation reconstruction for Saltillo, Mexico. Tree-Ring Research 59(1):11-19.Abstract
Old Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) trees were sampled in the Sierra Madre Oriental of northeastern Mexico and used to develop a 219-year chronology of earlywood width. This chronology is correlated with monthly precipitation totals from January to June recorded at Saltillo some 55 km northwest of the collection site. The chronology was used to reconstruct winter-spring precipitation (January-June total) from 1782-2000. The reconstruction indicates large interannual, decadal, and multidecadal variability in winter-spring precipitation over Saltillo. This variability is vaguely apparent in the short and discontinuous instrumental record from 1950-1998, with January-June totals ranging from 15 to 310 mm, multiyear droughts, and a negative trend in January-June precipitation over the last 50 years. The reconstruction indicates that severe dryness was prevalent over a 24-year period from 1857-1880. This mid-19th century drought exceeds the duration of any droughts witnessed during the 20th century. However, three episodes of winter-spring dryness have prevailed in the Saltillo region after 1950, a much higher frequency of decadal drought than estimated over the past 219 years and aggravating the regional water supply problems associated with this booming manufacturing and ranching center.ISSN
2162-45851536-1098