Ta'Adlount, Morocco - MORC003 Additional Site Information C.W. Stockton, N. Chbouki, T. Harlan, D. Meko, R. Adams, M.F. Glueck. Purpose of Collection: Climatology - precipitation analyses, climate reconstruction, multi-proxy NAO reconstruction. Detrend method: Negative exponontial or linear regression with negative or 0 slope. detrending was predominately as noted above. also used a few splines Cores are stored at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona; availability: may be used on site at LTRR only (no mail-out). References: Chbouki, N., Spatio-temporal characteristics of drought as inferred from tree-ring data in Morocco, Ph.D. thesis, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 1992 Glueck, M.F. and C.W. Stockton, Reconstruction of the North Atlantic Oscillation, 1429-1983, International J. of Climatology, 21,1453-1465, 2001. Chbouki, N., Stockton, C.W., and Myers, D., Spatio-temporal patterns of drought in Morocco, International J. of Climatology, 15, 187-205, 1995. COFECHA output: Chronology file name : MORC003.CRN Measurement file name : MORC003.RWL Date checked : 24MAR05 Checked by : H. ADAMS AND J. LUKAS Beginning year : 1728 Ending year : 1984 Principal investigators: C.W. Stockton, N. Chbouki, T. Harlan, D. Meko, R. Adams, M.F. Glueck Site name : Ta'Adlount Site location : Morocco Species information : CDAT ATLANTIC CEDAR Latitude : 3223 Longitude : -00536 Elevation : 2200M Series intercorrelation: 0.810 Avg mean sensitivity : 0.252 Avg standard deviation : 0.850 Avg autocorrelation : 0.847 Number dated series : 21 Segment length tested : 50 Number problem segments: 0 Pct problem segments : 0.00 PART 5: CORRELATION OF SERIES BY SEGMENTS: morc003.rwl 11:59 Thu 24 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 1725 1750 1775 1800 1825 1850 1875 1900 1925 1950 1774 1799 1824 1849 1874 1899 1924 1949 1974 1999 --- -------- --------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 1 TAA01A 1735 1984 .50 .49 .70 .77 .77 .86 .89 .92 .93 .85 2 TAA01B 1728 1978 .70 .68 .71 .58 .52 .79 .80 .93 .94 .95 3 TAA02A 1788 1984 .69 .70 .79 .80 .75 .88 .89 .90 4 TAA02B 1776 1984 .75 .78 .69 .81 .77 .87 .85 .85 5 TAA03A 1793 1984 .88 .90 .90 .90 .92 .91 .93 .92 6 TAA03B 1764 1984 .60 .76 .78 .85 .87 .83 .72 .78 .82 7 TAA04A 1788 1984 .69 .68 .71 .66 .64 .87 .89 .90 8 TAA04B 1808 1984 .69 .74 .80 .85 .90 .92 .94 9 TAA05B 1902 1984 .62 .46 .48 10 TAA13B 1770 1977 .80 .84 .81 .76 .82 .76 .87 .86 .87 11 TAA14A 1773 1984 .79 .80 .77 .82 .88 .86 .87 .93 .87 12 TAA14B 1760 1984 .66 .81 .82 .83 .90 .83 .80 .81 .76 13 TAA15A 1755 1984 .86 .83 .88 .89 .91 .92 .89 .90 .91 14 TAA15B 1753 1984 .80 .81 .87 .87 .87 .87 .89 .85 .79 15 TAA16A 1756 1984 .36 .73 .81 .78 .88 .84 .76 .88 .91 16 TAA16B 1804 1982 .75 .81 .87 .80 .73 .84 .78 17 TAA17A 1751 1984 .65 .80 .88 .87 .89 .88 .90 .87 .88 18 TAA17B 1744 1984 .73 .78 .83 .80 .85 .90 .86 .83 .87 .86 19 TAA18A 1751 1984 .74 .80 .89 .82 .84 .88 .85 .85 .88 20 TAA18B 1737 1925 .63 .64 .69 .76 .84 .95 .89 .88 21 TAA21A 1815 1920 .52 .51 .47 .57 Av segment correlation .64 .68 .77 .77 .78 .83 .82 .85 .86 .85 PART 7: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: morc003.rwl 11:59 Thu 24 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 TAA01A 1735 1984 250 10 0 .781 1.28 3.33 .593 .806 .233 2.47 .306 -.019 1 2 TAA01B 1728 1978 251 10 0 .798 1.60 3.69 .670 .767 .229 2.37 .259 -.057 1 3 TAA02A 1788 1984 197 8 0 .801 1.84 4.63 .753 .817 .225 2.57 .249 -.042 1 4 TAA02B 1776 1984 209 8 0 .775 1.93 6.23 1.157 .884 .275 2.37 .275 -.025 1 5 TAA03A 1793 1984 192 8 0 .929 1.41 3.44 .651 .817 .282 2.27 .230 -.048 1 6 TAA03B 1764 1984 221 9 0 .817 1.49 4.35 .851 .860 .276 2.31 .279 -.015 4 7 TAA04A 1788 1984 197 8 0 .765 2.06 4.76 .873 .846 .197 2.54 .255 -.082 1 8 TAA04B 1808 1984 177 7 0 .841 2.15 6.60 1.284 .885 .215 2.52 .291 -.050 1 9 TAA05B 1902 1984 83 3 0 .509 3.25 7.03 1.785 .913 .192 2.67 .450 -.025 1 10 TAA13B 1770 1977 208 9 0 .813 1.78 3.80 .648 .826 .190 2.30 .208 -.032 2 11 TAA14A 1773 1984 212 9 0 .834 1.97 4.72 1.005 .886 .231 2.39 .303 -.035 2 12 TAA14B 1760 1984 225 9 0 .755 1.80 4.11 .776 .861 .216 2.42 .293 -.013 1 13 TAA15A 1755 1984 230 9 0 .910 1.78 5.63 1.104 .851 .286 2.40 .291 -.027 1 14 TAA15B 1753 1984 232 9 0 .868 1.68 6.10 1.105 .864 .305 2.41 .285 -.019 1 15 TAA16A 1756 1984 229 9 0 .805 1.50 3.26 .683 .805 .259 2.37 .258 -.038 1 16 TAA16B 1804 1982 179 7 0 .851 .97 3.36 .559 .857 .280 2.44 .282 -.018 1 17 TAA17A 1751 1984 234 9 0 .843 1.37 4.29 .892 .922 .282 2.45 .306 -.037 2 18 TAA17B 1744 1984 241 10 0 .809 1.25 3.29 .785 .913 .299 2.52 .308 -.001 2 19 TAA18A 1751 1984 234 9 0 .868 1.24 3.34 .821 .932 .241 2.49 .278 -.016 1 20 TAA18B 1737 1925 189 8 0 .779 1.62 3.86 .780 .903 .192 2.59 .344 -.026 1 21 TAA21A 1815 1920 106 4 0 .535 1.21 3.25 .535 .392 .388 2.76 .551 .011 2 --- -------- --------- ----- ----- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -- Total or mean: 4296 172 0 .810 1.63 7.03 .850 .847 .252 2.76 .289 -.030