Wadi Balat, Lebanon - leba002 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. Chronology file name : LEBA002.CRN Measurement file name : LEBA002.RWL Date checked : 02OCT07 Checked by : B. Bauer Beginning year : 1722 Ending year : 2001 Principal investigators: Ramzi Touchan and Malcolm Hughes Site name : Wadi Balat Site location : Lebanon Species information : ABCI CILICIAN FIR Latitude : 3428 Longitude : 3614 Elevation : 1175M Series intercorrelation: 0.456 Avg mean sensitivity : 0.253 Avg standard deviation : 0.827 Avg autocorrelation : 0.815 Number dated series : 19 Segment length tested : 50 Number problem segments: 15 Pct problem segments : 13.51 PART 5: CORRELATION OF SERIES BY SEGMENTS: Wadi Balat 08:50 Tue 02 Oct 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 1725 1750 1775 1800 1825 1850 1875 1900 1925 1950 1975 1774 1799 1824 1849 1874 1899 1924 1949 1974 1999 2024 --- -------- --------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 1 WABA01 1911 2001 .35 .30A .34 .39 2 WABA03 1895 2001 .57 .56 .35B .34 .35 3 WABA05 1878 2001 .60 .39B .33B .37 .33 4 WABA07 1875 2001 .65 .31A .37 .52 .52 5 WABA08 1869 2001 .23B .25A .47 .66 .67 .66 6 WABA09 1902 2001 .63 .39 .35 .36 7 WABA10 1917 2001 .65 .66 .53 .56 8 WABA11 1852 2001 .27B .54 .71 .71 .56 .52 9 WABA12 1860 1936 .42 .57 .40 10 WABA13A 1909 2001 .39 .27B .44 .42 11 WABA13B 1909 2001 .35 .41 .56 .55 12 WABA14A 1823 2001 .38 .40 .42 .44 .56 .60 .60 .60 13 WABA14B 1841 2001 .40 .38 .49 .49 .60 .66 .62 14 WABA15 1909 2001 .58 .44 .42 .42 15 WABA16 1747 2001 .32A .36 .44 .67 .67 .41 .39 .58 .60 .46 .52 16 WABA17A 1812 2001 .72 .58 .41 .35 .41 .36 .38 .42 17 WABA17B 1722 2001 .32B .36 .44 .51 .58 .63 .49 .31B .34 .47 .51 18 WABA18 1891 2001 .37 .34 .34 .25A .24A 19 WABA20A 1842 2001 .51 .39 .21B .53 .57 .48 .45 Av segment correlation .32 .36 .44 .57 .52 .40 .46 .47 .46 .47 .47 PART 7: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: Wadi Balat 08:50 Tue 02 Oct 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 WABA01 1911 2001 91 4 1 .387 2.69 9.43 1.791 .825 .215 2.84 .429 -.020 1 2 WABA03 1895 2001 107 5 1 .463 1.43 4.64 1.001 .817 .251 2.67 .442 -.096 1 3 WABA05 1878 2001 124 5 2 .478 .90 5.59 .822 .675 .370 2.72 .364 -.041 2 4 WABA07 1875 2001 127 5 1 .547 1.80 5.40 .920 .724 .247 2.65 .310 -.017 1 5 WABA08 1869 2001 133 6 2 .457 1.10 6.45 .999 .824 .258 2.71 .342 -.061 1 6 WABA09 1902 2001 100 4 0 .461 .97 6.44 1.304 .958 .264 2.55 .454 -.040 1 7 WABA10 1917 2001 85 4 0 .592 2.59 6.64 1.314 .737 .299 2.71 .467 -.085 2 8 WABA11 1852 2001 150 6 1 .467 1.24 4.53 .774 .813 .253 2.67 .320 -.070 1 9 WABA12 1860 1936 77 3 0 .421 1.68 6.25 1.605 .913 .327 2.57 .385 -.003 1 10 WABA13A 1909 2001 93 4 1 .414 1.35 4.10 .769 .786 .236 2.95 .519 -.009 1 11 WABA13B 1909 2001 93 4 0 .443 1.34 3.75 .777 .829 .222 2.86 .507 -.031 1 12 WABA14A 1823 2001 179 8 0 .470 .86 2.12 .399 .752 .262 2.69 .406 -.037 1 13 WABA14B 1841 2001 161 7 0 .494 1.20 5.11 .856 .787 .270 3.06 .598 -.045 1 14 WABA15 1909 2001 93 4 0 .473 2.43 6.49 1.060 .557 .264 2.90 .472 .018 1 15 WABA16 1747 2001 255 11 1 .474 .99 3.65 .763 .929 .188 2.52 .376 -.027 1 16 WABA17A 1812 2001 190 8 0 .422 .88 2.72 .452 .772 .235 2.40 .265 -.041 1 17 WABA17B 1722 2001 280 11 2 .431 .80 3.04 .603 .896 .259 2.64 .384 -.006 1 18 WABA18 1891 2001 111 5 2 .304 1.60 5.07 1.015 .851 .262 2.64 .403 -.086 2 19 WABA20A 1842 2001 160 7 1 .464 .60 1.18 .260 .850 .221 2.67 .414 -.032 1 --- -------- --------- ----- ----- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -- Total or mean: 2609 111 15 .456 1.25 9.43 .827 .815 .253 3.06 .403 -.037