AROSIO, Tito, Max TORBENSON, Tatiana BEBCHUK, Alexander KIRDYANOV, Jan ESPER, Takeshi NAKATSUKA, Masaki SANO, Otmar URBAN, Kurt NICOLUSSI, Markus LEUENBERGER and Ulf BÜNTGEN. Methodological constrains of tree-ring stable isotope chronologies. Quaternary Science Reviews. Elsevier Ltd, 2024, vol. 340, September, p. 1-11. ISSN 0277-3791. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108861.
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Original name Methodological constrains of tree-ring stable isotope chronologies
Authors AROSIO, Tito, Max TORBENSON, Tatiana BEBCHUK, Alexander KIRDYANOV, Jan ESPER, Takeshi NAKATSUKA, Masaki SANO, Otmar URBAN, Kurt NICOLUSSI, Markus LEUENBERGER and Ulf BÜNTGEN (276 Germany, belonging to the institution).
Edition Quaternary Science Reviews, Elsevier Ltd, 2024, 0277-3791.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10511 Environmental sciences
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 4.000 in 2022
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108861
UT WoS 001285833500001
Keywords in English Climate reconstructions; Proxy data; Stable isotopes; Spectral properties; Tree rings
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
Tree-ring stable isotope (TRSI) chronologies that combine information from living and relict wood have the potential to capture long-term trends that might be missing in traditional tree-ring width and maximum latewood density measurements. Our understanding of the possible effects of different methods to develop TRSI chronologies is, however, still incomplete. Here, we compare and evaluate five such methods applied to three multi-millennial-long oxygen isotope (δ18O) TRSI datasets from central Europe, the European Alps and Japan: (a) raw data, (b) cohort correction, (c) interactive mean correction, (d) outlier correction, and (e) series normalization. We show that the spectral properties preserved in the final TRSI chronologies not only depend on the data used, but also on the techniques applied. Method (a) is particularly prone to outliers if the sample size is low. Method (b) may create artificial steps and trends when single measurement series share similar start dates and/or when end and start dates are systematically skewed. Methods (c) and (d) yield similar results for annually resolved data, yet (d) is more suitable for temporally pooled datasets and less sensitive to potential biological age effects. Method (e) removes any low-frequency signal. Our findings demonstrate the risks and rewards of different TRSI chronology development techniques that must be carefully adapted to both, the data used and the question posed.
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