Gahan fir, Himachal Pradesh, India - INDI018 Additional Site Information H.P. Borgaonkar G.B. Pant K. Rupa Kumar Purpose of Collection: Climatology - temperature analyses Detrend method: All series are detrended with spline at 60 years wavelength. Cores are available at: Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pashan, Pune - 411 008, India References: 1 Borgaonkar, H.P., Pant, G. B., Rupa Kumar, K. 1994: Dendroclimatic Reconstruction of Summer Precipitation at Srinagar, Kashmir, India since the late 18th Century. The Holocene 4, 3, 299-306. 2 Borgaonkar, H.P., Pant, G. B., Rupa Kumar, K. 1999: Tree-ring chronologies from western Himalaya and their dendroclimatic potential, IAWA Journal, 20, 295-307. 3 Borgaonkar, H.P., Pant, G. B., Rupa Kumar, K. 1996 : Ring-width Variations in Cedrus deodara and Its Climatic Response Over the Western Himalaya: Int. J. Climatology. 16, 1409-1422. 4 Borgaonkar, H.P. 1996: Tree-Growth Climate Relationship and Long- Term Climate Change Over The Western Himalaya: A Dendroclimatic Approach, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Pune, Pune - 411 008. 5 Pant, G.B., Borgaonkar, H.P and Rupa Kumar, K. , 1998: Climatic signal from tree-rings: A dendroclimatic investigation of Himalayan spruce (Picea smithiana). Himalayan Geology, 19, 65-73. COFECHA output: Chronology file name : INDI018.CRN Measurement file name : INDI018.RWL Date checked : 21MAR05 Checked by : H. ADAMS AND J. LUKAS Beginning year : 1745 Ending year : 1989 Principal investigators: H.P. Borgaonkar G.B. Pant K. Rupa Kumar Site name : Gahan Site location : India Species information : ABPI HIMALAYAN SILVER FIR Latitude : 3111 Longitude : 07716 Elevation : 2500M Series intercorrelation: 0.618 Avg mean sensitivity : 0.277 Avg standard deviation : 1.076 Avg autocorrelation : 0.799 Number dated series : 12 Segment length tested : 50 Number problem segments: 1 Pct problem segments : 1.14 PART 5: CORRELATION OF SERIES BY SEGMENTS: indi018.rwl 12:43 Mon 21 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 1750 1775 1800 1825 1850 1875 1900 1925 1950 1799 1824 1849 1874 1899 1924 1949 1974 1999 --- -------- --------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 1 gahap54a 1772 1989 .65 .68 .63 .73 .81 .77 .61 .47 .36 2 gahap55b 1751 1989 .49 .53 .34 .43 .59 .70 .67 .48 .50 3 gahap56a 1810 1989 .67 .71 .73 .79 .87 .66 .66 4 gahap56b 1830 1989 .68 .56 .64 .69 .69 .59 5 gahap58a 1883 1989 .58 .71 .45 .41 6 gahap60a 1837 1989 .63 .82 .79 .70 .71 .72 7 gahap60b 1843 1989 .78 .75 .82 .80 .75 .66 8 gahap61a 1779 1989 .54 .35 .41 .73 .82 .80 .65 .56 9 gahap62a 1808 1989 .50 .59 .59 .63 .54 .71 .62 10 gahap63a 1764 1989 .47 .57 .62 .62 .78 .79 .76 .73 .62 11 gahap64a 1745 1989 .48 .59 .73 .78 .66 .50 .48 .70 .70 12 gahap65a 1793 1989 .42 .44 .30B .62 .71 .45 .37 .50 Av segment correlation .52 .55 .53 .60 .69 .71 .67 .61 .57 PART 7: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: indi018.rwl 12:43 Mon 21 Mar 2005 Page 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 gahap54a 1772 1989 218 9 0 .651 .86 4.82 .815 .878 .321 2.74 .415 -.053 1 2 gahap55b 1751 1989 239 9 0 .532 1.97 9.84 1.329 .711 .349 2.73 .371 -.073 2 3 gahap56a 1810 1989 180 7 0 .721 2.48 8.88 1.554 .829 .285 2.59 .406 -.077 5 4 gahap56b 1830 1989 160 6 0 .638 1.97 5.64 .947 .641 .300 2.59 .352 -.078 2 5 gahap58a 1883 1989 107 4 0 .542 2.81 4.96 .951 .740 .196 2.48 .343 -.045 1 6 gahap60a 1837 1989 153 6 0 .732 1.76 4.64 .835 .784 .256 2.39 .272 -.011 1 7 gahap60b 1843 1989 147 6 0 .757 1.80 6.34 1.183 .877 .238 2.59 .396 -.035 1 8 gahap61a 1779 1989 211 8 0 .626 2.17 9.77 1.668 .822 .281 2.47 .288 -.078 2 9 gahap62a 1808 1989 182 7 0 .556 1.77 5.31 .916 .793 .234 2.69 .392 -.047 1 10 gahap63a 1764 1989 226 9 0 .640 1.46 3.64 .684 .775 .253 2.56 .334 -.004 1 11 gahap64a 1745 1989 245 9 0 .573 .99 4.24 .677 .869 .289 2.61 .352 -.006 1 12 gahap65a 1793 1989 197 8 1 .500 2.10 8.89 1.362 .823 .250 2.64 .379 -.009 1 --- -------- --------- ----- ----- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -- Total or mean: 2265 88 1 .618 1.77 9.84 1.076 .799 .277 2.74 .359 -.043