In western Canada, internal natural variability is the dominant source of uncertainty for the climate model projection of precipitation and related variables. Tree-ring records capture this natural variability and also enable testing of the capacity of climate models to simulate significant modes of variability. We compare millennial tree-ring reconstructions of the weekly flows of the Athabasca and North Saskatchewan Rivers to weekly flows from a hydrological model forced with climatology...

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Rescheduled from June 28th to June 29th

A gap of millennial tree-ring data suitable for dendroclimatology has long been evident in the North American boreal forest. In my talk, I will describe the adaptive approach we have developed to build and improve a data network for millennial dendroclimatology in the eastern Canadian taiga. Recurrence of stand replacing wildfires is the most important constrain to the elaboration of long tree ring chronologies, which can only be developed away from regions ...