Herch Ehden, Lebanon - leba003 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 : LEBA003.CRN Measurement file name : LEBA003.RWL Date checked : 02OCT07 Checked by : B. Bauer Beginning year : 1809 Ending year : 2001 Principal investigators: Ramzi Touchan and Malcolm Hughes Site name : Herch Ehden Site location : Lebanon Species information : CDLI CEDAR OF LEBANON Latitude : 3418 Longitude : 3559 Elevation : 1640M Series intercorrelation: 0.582 Avg mean sensitivity : 0.191 Avg standard deviation : 1.077 Avg autocorrelation : 0.881 Number dated series : 22 Segment length tested : 50 Number problem segments: 4 Pct problem segments : 3.10 PART 5: CORRELATION OF SERIES BY SEGMENTS: Herch Ehden 08:51 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 1800 1825 1850 1875 1900 1925 1950 1975 1849 1874 1899 1924 1949 1974 1999 2024 --- -------- --------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 1 HEHC01A 1870 2001 .52 .58 .54 .51 .43 .42 2 HEHC01B 1875 1996 .53 .71 .57 .46 3 HEHC02 1911 2001 .77 .69 .61 .60 4 HEHC03 1858 2001 .47 .72 .73 .64 .60 .59 5 HEHC04 1863 2001 .47 .59 .69 .66 .60 .59 6 HEHC05 1868 2001 .65 .62 .68 .59 .71 .70 7 HEHC06 1881 2001 .63 .57 .54 .56 .55 8 HEHC07 1871 2001 .38 .42 .85 .61 .39 .35 9 HEHC08 1854 2001 .29A .50 .64 .62 .47 .45 10 HEHC09 1872 2001 .72 .71 .69 .53 .49 .49 11 HEHC10 1884 2001 .78 .73 .67 .61 .60 12 HEHC11 1828 2001 .33 .47 .70 .70 .62 .71 .70 13 HEHC12 1820 2001 .28A .37 .71 .80 .75 .77 .66 .66 14 HEHC13 1859 2001 .54 .64 .60 .59 .61 .63 15 HEHC14 1855 1994 .51 .68 .83 .79 .65 16 HEHC15 1888 2001 .72 .65 .47 .53 .51 17 HEHC16 1873 2001 .67 .64 .78 .66 .52 .53 18 HEHC17 1863 2001 .46 .53 .59 .47 .42 .40 19 HEHC18 1809 2001 .23B .33 .68 .75 .76 .59 .54 .51 20 HEHC19 1890 2001 .74 .64 .59 .57 .52 21 HEHC20 1815 2001 .25A .48 .81 .71 .61 .65 .74 .73 22 HEHC21 1872 1990 .50 .45 .47 .43 .39 Av segment correlation .25 .38 .55 .64 .68 .60 .56 .55 PART 7: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: Herch Ehden 08:51 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 HEHC01A 1870 2001 132 6 0 .487 2.58 7.03 1.529 .941 .151 2.78 .490 -.053 3 2 HEHC01B 1875 1996 122 4 0 .544 2.15 5.94 1.243 .888 .192 2.69 .446 -.014 1 3 HEHC02 1911 2001 91 4 0 .703 2.07 4.92 .759 .783 .173 2.45 .406 -.051 3 4 HEHC03 1858 2001 144 6 0 .616 1.40 3.77 .681 .839 .197 2.63 .465 -.085 1 5 HEHC04 1863 2001 139 6 0 .602 2.32 5.67 1.441 .927 .162 2.62 .299 -.006 1 6 HEHC05 1868 2001 134 6 0 .662 1.58 6.03 1.046 .877 .207 2.64 .437 -.055 1 7 HEHC06 1881 2001 121 5 0 .550 1.54 4.25 .628 .841 .165 2.73 .490 .045 1 8 HEHC07 1871 2001 131 6 0 .484 2.59 7.36 1.188 .866 .186 2.44 .313 -.049 2 9 HEHC08 1854 2001 148 6 1 .469 1.78 5.44 1.169 .927 .167 2.57 .407 -.003 2 10 HEHC09 1872 2001 130 6 0 .624 1.79 5.12 .928 .903 .173 2.51 .462 -.039 3 11 HEHC10 1884 2001 118 5 0 .707 1.58 4.03 .686 .761 .237 2.55 .445 -.060 3 12 HEHC11 1828 2001 174 7 0 .597 1.41 8.69 1.176 .793 .243 2.54 .401 -.025 1 13 HEHC12 1820 2001 182 8 1 .617 1.90 6.83 1.433 .936 .222 2.56 .406 -.023 1 14 HEHC13 1859 2001 143 6 0 .569 1.36 5.39 1.227 .939 .205 2.63 .310 -.029 1 15 HEHC14 1855 1994 140 5 0 .691 2.35 5.49 1.358 .948 .154 2.50 .372 .016 1 16 HEHC15 1888 2001 114 5 0 .594 1.47 4.97 .846 .912 .174 2.59 .455 .000 1 17 HEHC16 1873 2001 129 6 0 .633 2.26 8.62 1.848 .911 .190 2.92 .557 .001 1 18 HEHC17 1863 2001 139 6 0 .482 1.15 7.78 1.653 .956 .259 2.56 .357 -.031 1 19 HEHC18 1809 2001 193 8 1 .550 1.11 3.44 .679 .817 .203 2.56 .352 .011 1 20 HEHC19 1890 2001 112 5 0 .613 1.45 2.88 .463 .798 .154 2.53 .425 .008 3 21 HEHC20 1815 2001 187 8 1 .589 1.17 3.26 .646 .857 .201 2.66 .362 -.029 1 22 HEHC21 1872 1990 119 5 0 .468 1.42 4.53 .922 .938 .144 2.59 .407 -.012 1 --- -------- --------- ----- ----- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -- Total or mean: 3042 129 4 .582 1.72 8.69 1.077 .881 .191 2.92 .408 -.022