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Article Dans Une Revue Climate of the Past Année : 2009

Extracting a common high frequency signal from Northern Quebec black spruce tree-rings with a Bayesian hierarchical model

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One basic premise of dendroclimatology is that tree rings can be viewed as climate proxies, i.e. rings are assumed to contain some hidden information about past climate. From a statistical perspective, this extraction problem can be understood as the search of a hidden variable which represents the common signal within a collection of tree-ring width series. Classical average-based techniques used in dendrochronology have been applied to estimate the mean behavior of this latent variable. Still, depending on tree species, regional factors and statistical methods, a precise quantification of uncertainties associated to the hidden variable distribution is difficult to assess. To model the error propagation throughout the extraction procedure, we propose and study a Bayesian hierarchical model that focuses on extracting an inter-annual high frequency signal. Our method is applied to black spruce (Picea mariana) tree-rings recorded in Northern Quebec and compared to a classical averagebased techniques used by dendrochronologists (Cook and Kairiukstis, 1992).
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hal-03196681 , version 1 (14-04-2021)

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J.-J. Boreux, P. Naveau, O. Guin, L. Perreault, J. Bernier. Extracting a common high frequency signal from Northern Quebec black spruce tree-rings with a Bayesian hierarchical model. Climate of the Past, 2009, 5 (4), pp.607-613. ⟨10.5194/cp-5-607-2009⟩. ⟨hal-03196681⟩
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