Abstract This research evaluates the usefulness of oak earlywood vessel area as a climate proxy in the western United Kingdom (UK). The results demonstrate that at this site earlywood vessel area contains a different environmental signal (March relative humidity) to a ring-width chronology developed from the same trees. The vessel area signal passes commonly used verification statistics and was found to be representative of the climate of a similar geographic area to other tree-ring proxies, albeit with a lower explained variance. Taking the average of all the vessels identified for each year weakened the reconstructed climate signal and it was found for this study that the average of the 10 largest vessels provided the strongest and most stable match. The results demonstrate earlywood vessel area of oak in the UK has potential as a climate proxy, but that further work to strengthen and characterise the climatic target variable controlling vessel area is required.

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英国橡树早木船区作为英国气候代理的评估

摘要 本研究评估了橡木早木容器区作为英国西部气候代理的有用性。结果表明，在该地点，早木容器区域包含不同的环境信号（3 月相对湿度）与从相同树木形成的环宽年表不同。船只区域信号通过了常用的验证统计数据，并被发现能够代表与其他树轮代理相似的地理区域的气候，尽管解释方差较低。对每年识别出的所有船只取平均值会削弱重建的气候信号，本研究发现 10 艘最大船只的平均值提供了最强和最稳定的匹配。结果表明，英国橡树的早木容器区域具有作为气候代理的潜力，