dendroclimaticadj.
/ˌdɛndrəʊklʌɪˈmatɪk/ Originally U.S.
Of or pertaining to past climates as revealed by the growth rings in (ancient) timber.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [adjective] > of or relating to climate > in the geological past > as revealed by growth-rings in trees
dendroclimatic1950
1950 E. Schulman in Tree-Ring Bull. July–Oct. 11 A new program..of refinement and extension of dendroclimatic indices in the Colorado River basin.
1962 Jrnl. Geophysical Res. 67 1419/1 The earlywood width, latewood width, and year number can be substituted.., providing a dendroclimatic estimate of the environmental parameters x8 and x8x39.
1972 Geogr. Mag. June 639/1 These trees..are important in dendro-climatic research—the study of climatic change as revealed by tree-ring data.
1978 Nature 23 Nov. 338/2 The future directions of dendroclimatic research will undoubtedly be..influenced by the needs of the climatological research community.
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