Barouk, Lebanon - leba001 Additional Site Information Ramzi Touchan and Malcolm Hughes Measurement type: Total ring width Detrending: 67 cubic smoothing spline with 50 cutoff frequency Purpose of Collection: Climatology - precipitation analyses Location of core material: Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The University of Arizona Reference: Touchan, R., E. Xoplaki, G. Funkhouser, J. Luterbacher, M.K. Hughes, N. Erkan, Ü. Akkemik, and J. Stephan. 2005. Reconstructions of Spring/Summer Precipitation for the Eastern Mediterranean from Tree-Ring Widths and its Connection to Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation. Climate Dynamics, 25:75-98. COFECHA output: Chronology file name : LEBA001.CRN Measurement file name : LEBA001.RWL Date checked : 29JAN07 Checked by : B. Bauer Beginning year : 1829 Ending year : 2002 Principal investigators: Ramzi Touchan and Malcolm Hughes Site name : Barouk Site location : Lebanon Species information : CDLI CEDAR OF LEBANON Latitude : 3341 Longitude : 3541 Elevation : 1775M Series intercorrelation: 0.591 Avg mean sensitivity : 0.298 Avg standard deviation : 0.842 Avg autocorrelation : 0.778 Number dated series : 31 Segment length tested : 50 Number problem segments: 4 Pct problem segments : 2.55 PART 5: CORRELATION OF SERIES BY SEGMENTS: Barouk 15:34 Mon 29 Jan 2007 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 1825 1850 1875 1900 1925 1950 1975 1874 1899 1924 1949 1974 1999 2024 --- -------- --------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 1 BAR02A 1879 2002 .76 .69 .50 .50 .58 2 BAR02B 1883 2002 .61 .67 .56 .53 .61 3 BAR03A 1882 2002 .44 .69 .72 .70 .68 4 BAR03B 1880 2002 .63 .63 .75 .73 .73 5 BAR04A 1874 2002 .79 .79 .79 .80 .67 .68 6 BAR05B 1894 2002 .74 .76 .76 .70 .73 7 BAR06A 1857 2002 .53 .38 .41 .75 .72 .70 8 BAR06B 1870 2002 .74 .60 .53 .70 .78 .76 9 BAR08A 1829 2002 .37 .45 .58 .56 .72 .64 .61 10 BAR09A 1867 2002 .64 .73 .82 .78 .68 .71 11 BAR09B 1896 2002 .64 .62 .60 .68 .70 12 BAR10A 1907 2002 .42 .54 .49 .57 13 BAR10B 1924 2002 .52 .54 .57 .62 14 BAR11A 1917 2002 .53 .67 .73 .74 15 BAR11B 1937 2002 .62 .63 .68 16 BAR12A 1926 2002 .67 .51 .59 17 BAR12B 1937 2002 .57 .57 .71 18 BAR13A 1850 2002 .37 .69 .71 .79 .82 .80 19 BAR13B 1864 2002 .47 .66 .84 .77 .76 .79 20 BAR14A 1847 2002 .35 .40 .72 .72 .58 .67 .62 21 BAR14B 1846 2002 .34 .41 .69 .65 .62 .72 .73 22 BAR15A 1921 2002 .64 .61 .68 .64 23 BAR15B 1883 2002 .68 .69 .61 .41 .35 24 BAR16A 1911 2002 .76 .57 .52 .52 25 BAR16B 1912 2002 .61 .55 .59 .62 26 BAR17A 1888 2002 .56 .57 .50 .52 .53 27 BAR17B 1896 2002 .60 .59 .57 .47 .50 28 BAR18B 1881 2002 .44 .60 .76 .64 .62 29 BAR19A 1885 2002 .50 .58 .61 .44 .41 30 BAR20A 1844 2002 .31A .26B .39B .58 .50 .33 .27B 31 BAR20B 1892 2002 .56 .59 .50 .42 .37 Av segment correlation .34 .51 .61 .63 .64 .61 .62 PART 7: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: Barouk 15:34 Mon 29 Jan 2007 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 BAR02A 1879 2002 124 5 0 .619 2.00 4.87 .870 .794 .210 2.63 .479 .023 1 2 BAR02B 1883 2002 120 5 0 .583 1.43 3.07 .513 .696 .203 2.63 .404 .083 1 3 BAR03A 1882 2002 121 5 0 .556 .85 2.24 .532 .807 .330 2.39 .265 .040 4 4 BAR03B 1880 2002 123 5 0 .666 1.33 3.33 .703 .801 .317 2.54 .421 .096 6 5 BAR04A 1874 2002 129 6 0 .735 2.10 5.41 1.170 .858 .250 2.50 .395 .072 1 6 BAR05B 1894 2002 109 5 0 .716 1.62 2.78 .617 .683 .259 2.51 .386 .083 1 7 BAR06A 1857 2002 146 6 0 .558 .71 2.65 .490 .748 .398 3.09 .429 .079 5 8 BAR06B 1870 2002 133 6 0 .640 .86 3.15 .412 .794 .236 2.54 .364 -.023 2 9 BAR08A 1829 2002 174 7 0 .527 1.13 5.78 .868 .657 .456 2.81 .457 -.069 2 10 BAR09A 1867 2002 136 6 0 .691 1.85 4.54 1.234 .930 .211 2.55 .430 .006 3 11 BAR09B 1896 2002 107 5 0 .654 1.53 4.26 .797 .801 .245 2.56 .442 .002 2 12 BAR10A 1907 2002 96 4 0 .489 1.83 12.29 1.541 .619 .267 2.71 .416 -.058 4 13 BAR10B 1924 2002 79 4 0 .587 2.16 5.90 1.279 .837 .228 2.61 .450 -.060 3 14 BAR11A 1917 2002 86 4 0 .646 2.54 7.02 1.178 .685 .238 2.55 .341 -.009 1 15 BAR11B 1937 2002 66 3 0 .615 2.96 6.20 1.172 .733 .193 2.67 .386 -.027 1 16 BAR12A 1926 2002 77 3 0 .544 2.30 5.27 .900 .705 .251 2.78 .557 -.082 1 17 BAR12B 1937 2002 66 3 0 .595 3.50 6.85 1.207 .706 .201 2.67 .487 .018 3 18 BAR13A 1850 2002 153 6 0 .676 1.09 3.32 .584 .750 .304 2.69 .349 .021 2 19 BAR13B 1864 2002 139 6 0 .678 .96 3.62 .641 .757 .320 2.67 .388 .004 3 20 BAR14A 1847 2002 156 7 0 .610 1.10 2.78 .617 .803 .287 2.85 .525 .069 1 21 BAR14B 1846 2002 157 7 0 .609 1.61 5.18 .777 .682 .274 2.94 .418 -.021 2 22 BAR15A 1921 2002 82 4 0 .616 1.09 3.72 .828 .735 .400 2.83 .423 -.001 3 23 BAR15B 1883 2002 120 5 0 .534 1.10 4.27 .888 .868 .367 2.91 .403 -.005 2 24 BAR16A 1911 2002 92 4 0 .623 1.31 5.01 1.053 .786 .421 2.74 .515 -.024 2 25 BAR16B 1912 2002 91 4 0 .597 1.39 4.28 .991 .802 .346 2.51 .446 -.080 2 26 BAR17A 1888 2002 115 5 0 .526 1.51 5.04 1.154 .846 .413 2.60 .432 -.039 2 27 BAR17B 1896 2002 107 5 0 .533 1.79 6.99 1.419 .894 .288 2.53 .474 .016 1 28 BAR18B 1881 2002 122 5 0 .565 .97 4.14 1.108 .918 .302 2.65 .453 .006 1 29 BAR19A 1885 2002 118 5 0 .473 .60 1.95 .390 .782 .274 2.48 .399 .038 1 30 BAR20A 1844 2002 159 7 4 .397 1.23 5.81 .856 .786 .300 2.81 .448 .021 2 31 BAR20B 1892 2002 111 5 0 .487 .56 1.80 .326 .797 .309 2.59 .432 -.041 2 --- -------- --------- ----- ----- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -- Total or mean: 3614 157 4 .591 1.42 12.29 .842 .778 .298 3.09 .424 .008