Zoar State Forest (flood plain), Virginia - va031 Additional Site Information C.A. Copenheaver Purpose of Collection: Climatology Cores stored at: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060 USA Reference: Copenheaver, C.A., M.W. Yancey, E. Pantaleoni, and V.R. Emrick. 2007. Dendroclimatic analysis of a bottomland hardwood forest: Floodplain vs. terrace responses. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 134:505-511. NOTES: These cores were collected from the FLOOD PLAIN and are not suitable for climatic reconstructions! COFECHA output: Chronology file name : VA031.CRN Measurement file name : VA031.RWL Date checked : 14JUL10 Checked by : B. Bauer Beginning year : 1854 Ending year : 2004 Principal investigators: C.A. Copenheaver Site name : Zoar State Forest (flood plain) Site location : Virginia Species information : FAGR AMERICAN BEECH Latitude : +3747 Longitude : -07706 Elevation : 4M Series intercorrelation: 0.390 Avg mean sensitivity : 0.292 Avg standard deviation : 1.014 Avg autocorrelation : 0.765 Number dated series : 27 Segment length tested : 50 Number problem segments: 32 Pct problem segments : 31.07 PART 5: CORRELATION OF SERIES BY SEGMENTS: Zoar SF flood plain 14:39 Wed 14 Jul 2010 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 1850 1875 1900 1925 1950 1975 1899 1924 1949 1974 1999 2024 --- -------- --------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 1 zlbe01b 1911 2003 .50 .47 .52 .48 2 zlbe03a 1883 2004 .53 .59 .54 .32A .28A 3 zlbe03b 1869 2004 .32B .35B .66 .63 .58 .59 4 zlbe04a 1896 2004 .38 .40 .59 .51 .50 5 zlbe04b 1908 2004 .13B .23A .50 .54 6 zlbe05b 1854 2004 .02B .08B .02B .05B .14B .06B 7 zlbe07a 1928 2004 .50 .57 .55 8 zlbe07b 1931 2004 .50 .53 .53 9 zlbe09a 1927 2004 .63 .62 .59 10 zlbe09b 1932 2004 .64 .63 .62 11 zlbe10a 1948 2004 .28A .25B .25B 12 zlbe10b 1953 2004 .48 .51 13 zlbe11b 1933 2004 .33A .20A .21A 14 zlbe12a 1908 2004 .29A .42 .34 .33 15 zlbe12b 1893 2003 .40 .41 .65 .33 .30A 16 zlbe14a 1917 2004 .65 .56 .49 .51 17 zlbe14b 1884 2004 .51 .59 .67 .59 .57 18 zlbe15a 1951 2004 .39 .41 19 zlbe15b 1911 2004 .08B .32A .24B .18B 20 zlbe16a 1910 2004 .18B .27B .46 .55 21 zlbe16b 1901 2004 .04B .24A .49 .54 22 zlbe17a 1953 2004 .56 .56 23 zlbe17b 1952 2003 .50 .50 24 zlbe18a 1877 2004 .19B .42 .53 .51 .52 25 zlbe20b 1946 2004 .30A .34 .38 26 zlbe20a 1920 2004 .47 .48 .46 .37 27 zlbe18b 1882 2004 -.15B .13B .43 .45 .47 Av segment correlation .17 .29 .35 .45 .44 .44 PART 7: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: Zoar SF flood plain 14:39 Wed 14 Jul 2010 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 zlbe01b 1911 2003 93 4 0 .459 2.28 6.58 1.509 .846 .280 2.45 .441 -.011 2 2 zlbe03a 1883 2004 122 5 2 .407 1.11 3.48 .786 .835 .307 2.52 .290 -.047 1 3 zlbe03b 1869 2004 136 6 2 .494 1.33 4.97 1.013 .827 .319 2.69 .421 -.067 1 4 zlbe04a 1896 2004 109 5 0 .459 1.68 4.54 1.066 .902 .283 2.63 .366 -.038 1 5 zlbe04b 1908 2004 97 4 2 .302 1.68 5.38 1.217 .867 .331 2.74 .497 -.056 2 6 zlbe05b 1854 2004 151 6 6 .048 .84 3.41 .683 .868 .269 2.94 .567 .018 1 7 zlbe07a 1928 2004 77 3 0 .470 2.39 4.74 .959 .590 .335 2.68 .568 -.081 1 8 zlbe07b 1931 2004 74 3 0 .432 1.71 3.81 .690 .494 .318 2.60 .401 .041 1 9 zlbe09a 1927 2004 78 3 0 .601 2.23 4.91 1.286 .735 .319 2.64 .506 -.012 1 10 zlbe09b 1932 2004 73 3 0 .610 2.98 7.64 1.667 .748 .295 2.77 .558 .045 1 11 zlbe10a 1948 2004 57 3 3 .277 2.10 7.07 1.394 .764 .301 2.58 .406 -.035 1 12 zlbe10b 1953 2004 52 2 0 .515 1.92 5.25 .691 .346 .225 2.60 .526 -.001 1 13 zlbe11b 1933 2004 72 3 3 .251 2.75 4.94 1.094 .633 .247 2.44 .379 -.022 2 14 zlbe12a 1908 2004 97 4 1 .347 1.46 3.67 .855 .827 .253 2.69 .476 .003 1 15 zlbe12b 1893 2003 111 5 1 .358 1.67 5.29 1.283 .913 .280 2.73 .507 -.100 1 16 zlbe14a 1917 2004 88 4 0 .558 1.60 5.57 1.277 .839 .343 2.84 .543 -.039 1 17 zlbe14b 1884 2004 121 5 0 .580 1.40 6.99 1.150 .765 .398 2.98 .543 -.053 1 18 zlbe15a 1951 2004 54 2 0 .403 2.88 4.67 .727 .441 .194 2.60 .465 -.002 1 19 zlbe15b 1911 2004 94 4 4 .155 1.79 3.95 1.257 .875 .353 2.75 .559 .072 1 20 zlbe16a 1910 2004 95 4 2 .374 1.66 3.75 .720 .677 .259 2.84 .474 .087 1 21 zlbe16b 1901 2004 104 4 2 .335 1.53 4.39 .777 .667 .304 2.55 .362 -.010 1 22 zlbe17a 1953 2004 52 2 0 .568 2.34 4.85 .763 .596 .223 2.63 .504 .036 1 23 zlbe17b 1952 2003 52 2 0 .506 2.80 6.34 1.123 .660 .250 2.56 .528 .049 1 24 zlbe18a 1877 2004 128 5 1 .395 1.34 4.29 .930 .863 .285 2.71 .443 .017 1 25 zlbe20b 1946 2004 59 3 1 .350 3.05 6.05 1.235 .683 .274 2.38 .362 -.008 1 26 zlbe20a 1920 2004 85 4 0 .421 2.06 4.70 .892 .772 .229 2.73 .568 -.048 1 27 zlbe18b 1882 2004 123 5 2 .181 1.17 3.38 .708 .805 .273 2.79 .382 -.066 2 --- -------- --------- ----- ----- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -- Total or mean: 2454 103 32 .390 1.77 7.64 1.014 .765 .292 2.98 .465 -.016