Claim · model-written summary
Tree-ring width in a given year was significantly correlated with the maximum snow cover depth of the previous year (r=0.27, significant at the 0.05 level).
- Taxon
- Norway spruce
Picea abiese0 - Outcome
- tree-ring widthse1
- Value
- r=0.27e2
- Comparator
- maximum snow cover depthe1
- Setting
- High Tauerne0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“examine the correlation of Norway spruce tree-ring widths and the snow cover depth in the High Tauern mountains”
e1“the tested relationship is statistically significant in the case of correlating of the tree-ring widths in a given year with a maximum snow cover depth in a season of previous year”
e2“The correlation coefficient for the entire period of the study is not very high (r=0.27)”
Title
Tree-Ring Widths and Snow Cover Depth in High Tauern
Malgorzata Falarz IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science 2017. doi:10.1088/1755-1315/95/6/062005
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Association Norway spruce tree-ring width in a given year showed no statistically significant dependency on the maximum snow cover depth of the winter ending that year.
- Association Thirty-year moving correlations between tree-ring width and snow depth showed no significant dependencies until 1942 and after 1982.
- Association During 1943-1981 the 30-year moving correlation coefficients were statistically significant, ranging from 0.37 to 0.45.
- Association The correlation between real and regression-calibrated maximum snow cover depth was statistically significant for the calibration period.
- Association The correlation between real and regression-calibrated maximum snow cover depth was not significant for the verification period.
- Recommendation Reconstructing snow cover on Sonnblick for the period before regular measurements from tree-ring widths seems not reasonable.