A Well-Documented Set of Annual Tree-Ring Chronologies from the International Tree-Ring Data Bank for Dendroclimatic Studies

国际树木年轮数据库(ITRDB)包含数百个树木年轮数据集，这些数据集有助于研究气候的可变性和变化，包括研究温室气体可能迫使气候变化的原因。然而，通常用于树种气候研究的平均年轮年表不包括解释如何从原始数据编制年表的相关元数据。该奖项支持将ITRDB气候研究中最重要的年轮数据集重新标准化，即1700年或之前开始的数据集。树轮年表的重要特征将被记录下来，因为它们与保护低频气候变异性有关。这些重新标准化的树轮年表将作为一个单独的、增强的、完整文件的资料库放在ITRDB中，供科学界免费使用。

The International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB) contains hundreds of tree-ring data sets that are useful for the study of climate variability and change, including attribution studies of possible climate forcing by greenhouse gases. The mean annual tree-ring chronologies, however, which are typically used in dendroclimatic studies, do not include associated meta-data that explain how the chronologies were developed from the raw data. This award supports re-standardizing the most important subset of tree-ring data sets for climate studies in the ITRDB, i.e. those that begin on or before 1700. The important features of the tree-ring chronologies will be documented as they relate to the conservation of low-frequency climate variability. These re-standardized tree-ring chronologies will be placed in the ITRDB as a separate, enhanced, full-documented library that will be freely available to the scientific community.