Rio Minero, Neuquén, Argentina - ARGE076 Additional Site Information Ricardo Villalba Purpose of Collection: Climatology - temperature analyses Measurement type: Total ring width 1st Detrending method: Negative exponential or linear regression of any slope Location of core material: IANIGLA (Instituto Argentino de Nivología y Glaciología) Bajada del Cerro s/n Parque San Martín Mendoza Argentina References: Villalba, R., and Veblen, T. Spatial and temporal variation in Austrocedrus growth along the forest-steppe ecotone in northern Patagonia. Canadian Journal Forestry Research.27:580-597 (1997) Villalba, R., Cook, E., Jacoby, G., DArrigo, R., Veblen, T., and Jones, P. Tree-ring based reconstructions of northern Patagonia presipitation since AD 1600. The Holocene 8,6 (1998)pp.659-674 Villalba, R. and Veblen, T. Influences of large-scale climatic variability on episodic tree mortality in Northern Patagonia. Ecology, 79 (8),1998, pp.2624-2640 COFECHA output: Chronology file name : ARGE076.CRN Measurement file name : ARGE076.RWL Date checked : 10MAR05 Checked by : H. ADAMS AND J. LUKAS Beginning year : 1589 Ending year : 1991 Principal investigators: Ricardo Villalba Site name : Rio Minero Site location : Argentina Species information : AUCH CHILEAN CEDAR Latitude : -4042 Longitude : -07116 Elevation : 1050M Series intercorrelation: 0.670 Avg mean sensitivity : 0.274 Avg standard deviation : 0.630 Avg autocorrelation : 0.849 Number dated series : 16 Segment length tested : 50 Number problem segments: 2 Pct problem segments : 1.25 PART 5: CORRELATION OF SERIES BY SEGMENTS: arge076.rwl 14:31 Thu 10 Mar 2005 Page 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Correlations of 50-year dated segments, lagged 25 years Flags: A = correlation under .3281 but highest as dated; B = correlation higher at other than dated position Seq Series Time_span 1575 1600 1625 1650 1675 1700 1725 1750 1775 1800 1825 1850 1875 1900 1925 1950 1624 1649 1674 1699 1724 1749 1774 1799 1824 1849 1874 1899 1924 1949 1974 1999 --- -------- --------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 1 MIN13A 1717 1991 .28A .28A .37 .76 .77 .58 .67 .68 .62 .50 .57 2 MIN14B 1590 1991 .86 .88 .86 .73 .63 .57 .60 .62 .57 .67 .72 .77 .71 .73 .69 .61 3 MIN14C 1589 1991 .86 .88 .86 .75 .70 .58 .58 .56 .67 .82 .81 .73 .64 .69 .74 .55 4 MIN15B 1681 1991 .47 .62 .64 .53 .62 .73 .70 .64 .67 .62 .52 .67 5 MIN16A 1687 1991 .58 .63 .69 .56 .76 .87 .85 .73 .67 .67 .64 .70 6 MIN16B 1676 1991 .62 .70 .70 .46 .75 .81 .65 .71 .71 .65 .67 .80 7 MIN17A 1758 1991 .42 .39 .61 .80 .81 .77 .69 .63 .52 8 MIN18A 1821 1991 .44 .43 .44 .65 .68 .63 .69 9 MIN18B 1816 1991 .53 .57 .62 .58 .58 .61 .71 10 MIN19A 1752 1974 .52 .82 .81 .59 .73 .85 .82 .67 11 MIN19B 1752 1991 .53 .50 .57 .65 .64 .73 .79 .81 .68 12 MIN21A 1770 1991 .66 .66 .86 .82 .79 .76 .75 .72 .81 13 MIN21B 1772 1991 .81 .82 .89 .78 .75 .80 .84 .82 .86 14 MIN22A 1774 1991 .83 .82 .80 .64 .69 .70 .64 .59 .68 15 MIN22B 1780 1991 .70 .83 .75 .66 .48 .40 .55 .69 16 MIN24A 1848 1991 .54 .55 .49 .53 .43 .51 Av segment correlation .86 .88 .86 .74 .60 .56 .58 .57 .68 .73 .68 .68 .68 .67 .64 .67 PART 7: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: arge076.rwl 14:31 Thu 10 Mar 2005 Page 8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Corr //-------- Unfiltered --------\\ //---- Filtered -----\\ No. No. No. with Mean Max Std Auto Mean Max Std Auto AR Seq Series Interval Years Segmt Flags Master msmt msmt dev corr sens value dev corr () --- -------- --------- ----- ----- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -- 1 MIN13A 1717 1991 275 11 2 .560 .94 4.14 .861 .932 .277 2.53 .294 .017 1 2 MIN14B 1590 1991 402 16 0 .722 .26 1.80 .188 .711 .442 2.72 .383 -.002 2 3 MIN14C 1589 1991 403 16 0 .691 .32 1.37 .186 .679 .383 2.59 .359 -.007 2 4 MIN15B 1681 1991 311 12 0 .615 .79 3.77 .705 .895 .245 2.55 .348 -.043 2 5 MIN16A 1687 1991 305 12 0 .693 1.22 5.13 .923 .849 .257 2.54 .354 -.047 2 6 MIN16B 1676 1991 316 12 0 .692 .95 4.12 .721 .874 .245 2.70 .324 -.018 1 7 MIN17A 1758 1991 234 9 0 .611 .82 4.16 .525 .794 .228 2.84 .454 -.056 1 8 MIN18A 1821 1991 171 7 0 .583 1.31 4.54 .965 .858 .245 2.76 .414 -.003 1 9 MIN18B 1816 1991 176 7 0 .595 1.66 5.45 1.196 .887 .260 2.89 .478 -.008 1 10 MIN19A 1752 1974 223 8 0 .728 1.10 4.39 .699 .883 .204 2.53 .315 -.012 2 11 MIN19B 1752 1991 240 9 0 .716 .78 4.75 .621 .914 .245 2.48 .291 -.018 2 12 MIN21A 1770 1991 222 9 0 .733 .82 2.09 .429 .869 .214 2.65 .419 .029 1 13 MIN21B 1772 1991 220 9 0 .803 .92 2.87 .682 .908 .232 2.47 .315 .014 2 14 MIN22A 1774 1991 218 9 0 .706 .78 2.73 .527 .920 .219 2.52 .256 -.009 1 15 MIN22B 1780 1991 212 8 0 .645 .89 3.36 .809 .938 .262 2.54 .373 .027 1 16 MIN24A 1848 1991 144 6 0 .509 1.33 4.13 .809 .900 .200 2.82 .509 .061 1 --- -------- --------- ----- ----- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -- Total or mean: 4072 160 2 .670 .86 5.45 .630 .849 .274 2.89 .361 -.008