The use of tree rings to measure past temperature - properly known as dendrochronology - has long been problematical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public] Reference

It can afford geophysics on every dig, and other techniques such as dendrochronology as required.    From Wordnik.com.  [What’s the Hurry, Time Team?] Reference

For more on the fascinating subject of tree-ring dating, called dendrochronology, see "If a Tree Falls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

Who will be in charge of bad effects on dendrochronology?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Project for the Dendro Truth Squad « Climate Audit] Reference

In climatology, meteorology, dendrochronology -- not so much.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair and Balanced Science] Reference

But dendrochronology an dendroclimatology are two separate things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The RE Benchmark in A&W « Climate Audit] Reference

I wonder if realclimate learned the following from dendrochronology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Gavin Schmidt Honest? « Climate Audit] Reference

I have joined the “professionals” listserv for dendrochronology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Principal Components Illustrations « Climate Audit] Reference

IOW, I come at it from the ecology angle, not the dendrochronology angle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The RE Benchmark in A&W « Climate Audit] Reference

This section draws on some recent dendrochronology work in Interior Alaska.    From Wordnik.com.  [Direct climate effects on tree growth in the Arctic] Reference

BTW,I am knowledgeable in the statistical methods used in dendrochronology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bristlecone dC13 « Climate Audit] Reference

You can publish in a dendrochronology journal or such if you want, vice GRL.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Climate Change Workshop 2 « Climate Audit] Reference

He has put his finger on a long-running problem in dendrochronology for sure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bring the Proxies Up to Date!! « Climate Audit] Reference

So you are questioning or looking at the quality of the dendrochronology itself?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plots of Gaspe and Polar Urals Data « Climate Audit] Reference

It filled me in on a good bit of the history of the science of dendrochronology.    From Wordnik.com.  [More on Urals and Tornetrask « Climate Audit] Reference

The controversy over that study centers on the use of proxy data - dendrochronology.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Esther Jansma, professor of dendrochronology and paleo-ecology of the Quarternary at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunn et al. [2005] – 20th century tree growth in the Sierra Nevadas « Climate Audit] Reference

This is such a fundamental point for dendrochronology that it must have been addressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dendroclimatologists are Angry « Climate Audit] Reference

Particularly in regard to moisture content, does this affect dendrochronology and how so?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilson, Pisaric and Gaspé « Climate Audit] Reference

One other question: How is changing population density controlled for in dendrochronology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilson, Pisaric and Gaspé « Climate Audit] Reference

The science of dendrochronology has advanced since its crude beginnings at Pueblo Bonito in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :] Reference

If so would not that confirm both their lack of statistical and dendrochronology credentials?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Graybill and Funkhouser [1993] on Bristlecones « Climate Audit] Reference

We have seen what happens when determined investigators dig into the area of dendrochronology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inhofe, UCAR and NCAR « Climate Audit] Reference

#7 This looks like a very good post from someone in the established dendrochronology community.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alberta #2 « Climate Audit] Reference

The RRP uses dendrochronology -- counting age rings in wooden panels-in order to pair separated portraits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Deal Rembrandt] Reference

The scientists in question chose to ignore dendrochronology data that disagreed with their other findings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palin calls for Obama to boycott climate change conference] Reference

I mentioned to a grad student doing her novice presentation in bio-geography that the public enjoys dendrochronology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bristlecone dC13 « Climate Audit] Reference

It is an oversimplification to say that dendrochronology is ring counting based on rainfall and the physiology of trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spot the Hockey Stick #8: The Freeserve Brighton Website « Climate Audit] Reference

Ongoing studies include the dendrochronology of tarout cypress, natural resource inventories and conservation of the rock art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tassili N'Ajjer National Park, Algeria] Reference

Together with these crustae, we found lots of charcoal and took some samples of it for radiocarbon dating and dendrochronology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 5] Reference

Most of my work has been on recent glacier variations (Little Ice Age) or much older ones (outside the range of dendrochronology).    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Preprint by Wunsch on Abrupt Climate Change « Climate Audit] Reference

An attempt was made to date the logs but the tree was too young when it was felled to be accurately dated through dendrochronology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excavating Beekman - Area 4] Reference

I would not expect the dendrochronology data to have a linear relationship to temperature at either end of the temperature extreme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Cedars #2 « Climate Audit] Reference

In in all, I continue to have doubts about the usefulness of dendrochronology as a source of detailed data on prehistorical temperatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval #5: The Sargasso Sea proxy « Climate Audit] Reference

“Tree rings and people”, an international conference on the future of dendrochronology: An overview Authors: Solomina O.1;Cherubini P.1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunn et al. [2005] – 20th century tree growth in the Sierra Nevadas « Climate Audit] Reference

At issue is the use of tree rings as a temperature proxy, or dendrochronology.    From Wordnik.com.  [NCPA | Daily Policy Digest] Reference