noaa-tree-19320 eng; USA utf8 dataset NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information ncei.info@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. information pointOfContact NOAA World Data Service for Paleoclimatology Data Center Contact 828-271-4800 303-497-6513 325 Broadway, E/NE31 Boulder CO 80305-3328 USA paleo@noaa.gov pointOfContact 2025-07-14 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Mapungubwe, South Africa 1000 Year Baobab Tree Carbon Isotope Data 2016-07-25 publication doi:10.25921/ye8y-3g15 noaa-tree-19320 NCEI DSI 1200_02 NCEI DSI 1200_01 Woodborne, S. originator Woodborne, S. author Gandiwa, P. originator Gandiwa, P. author Hall, G. originator Hall, G. author Patrut, A. originator Patrut, A. author Finch, J. originator Finch, J. author NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information publisher tableDigital This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Tree Ring. The data include parameters of tree ring with a geographic location of South Africa, Southern Africa. The time period coverage is from 951 to -64 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data. Tree ring data from the International Tree Ring Data Bank and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology archives. Most data sets include raw treering measurements (most are annual ring width, with some collections of earlywood or latewood width or wood density), plus chronologies (standardized growth indices for a site compiled from multiple treering samples). Reconstructions of climate variables are included with some of these data sets. Each data type is stored in a separate data file; the data type is coded into the file name. 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URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords information custodian ADDI Adansonia digitata baobab monkey bread tree theme What: delta 13C; Material: alpha cellulose What: delta 13C; Material: alpha cellulose What: age; Material: null What: delta 13C; Material: alpha cellulose What: delta 13C; Material: alpha cellulose What: delta 13C; Material: alpha cellulose What: delta 13C; Material: alpha cellulose theme Paleoenvironmental Standard Terms (PaST) Thesaurus NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/paleoclimatology/paleoenvironmental-standard-terms-thesaurus PaST Thesaurus information publisher Continent > Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa > Mapungubwe > LATITUDE > LONGITUDE place DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce dataCentre Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords 2025 revision 22 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. 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A Regional Stable Carbon Isotope Dendro-Climatology from the South African Summer Rainfall Area 2016 publication Stephan Woodborne, Patience Gandiwa, Grant Hall, Adrian Patrut, and Jemma Finch author PLoS ONE publisher https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159361 HTTPS Web Browser Associated Reference published 2016 Stephan Woodborne, Patience Gandiwa, Grant Hall, Adrian Patrut, and Jemma Finch, 2016: A Regional Stable Carbon Isotope Dendro-Climatology from the South African Summer Rainfall Area. PLoS ONE, 11, , 10.1371/journal.pone.0159361 information crossReference sciencePaper eng; USA geoscientificInformation Date Range: 999 CE to 2014 CE; Date Range: 951 cal yr BP to -64 cal yr BP; 29.277717 31.555185 -23.262856 -22.183267 999 2014 STUDY NOTES: Carbon isotopic data of tree rings from South African baobab trees (Adansonia digitata L.) as a rainfall proxy. The Mapungubwe composite record is derived from 5 boabab trees. A combined data set composed of the 5 Mapungubwe baobabs plus 4 baobabs from Pafuri (Woodbourne et al. 2015) is also provided. Keywords: ITCZ, DMI, Agulhas Current SST, southern Africa IITRDB20 ABSTRACT SUPPLIED BY ORIGINATOR: Carbon isotope analysis of four baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) trees from the Pafuri region of South Africa yielded a 1000-year proxy rainfall record. The Pafuri record age model was based on 17 radiocarbon dates, cross correlation of the climate record, and ring structures that were presumed to be annual for two of the trees. Here we present the analysis of five additional baobabs from the Mapungubwe region, approximately 200km west of Pafuri. The Mapungubwe chronology demonstrates that ring structures are not necessarily annually formed, and accordingly the Pafuri chronology is revised. Changes in intrinsic water-use efficiency indicate an active response by the trees to elevated atmospheric CO2, but this has little effect on the environmental signal. The revised Pafuri record, and the new Mapungubwe record correlate significantly with local rainfall. Both records confirm that the Medieval Warm Period was substantially wetter than present, and the Little Ice Age was the driest period in the last 1000 years. Although Mapungubwe is generally drier than Pafuri, both regions experience elevated rainfall peaking between AD 1570 and AD 1620 after which dry conditions persist in the Mapungubwe area until about AD 1840. Differences between the two records correlate with Agulhas Current sea-surface temperature variations suggesting east/west displacement of the temperate tropical trough system as an underlying mechanism. The Pafuri and Mapungubwe records are combined to provide a regional climate proxy record for the northern summer rainfall area of southern Africa. 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