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title = "Dendrochronological Responses to a Tornado",
abstract = "Tree-ring responses to a historic tornado (Sheppard et al. 2005) are documented here. Little research has been published showing tree-ring responses to tornadoes, that is, long-term growth changes due to short-term, intense winds. The tornado of interest occurred at Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, northern Arizona (Fig. 1a, b), at about 2:30 PM on 24 October 1992 (Arizona Daily Sun Newspaper, 25 October 1992; Crisp 1996). The tornado first touched ground south of Sunset Crater and then moved generally north-northwest toward O{\textquoteright}Leary Peak (Fig. 1c) before dissipating. Many trees were uprooted and killed by the intense winds of the tornado, while other trees growing within the swaths were damaged by the tornado but survived the event and continue living today. This tornado is historically well-documented (Arizona Storms Database 2004) and thus can serve as a test case for calibrating ring-growth changes in trees that were buffeted – but not killed – by high winds. Such a calibration could serve to identify tornadoes of the past within tree-ring records.",
author = "Sheppard, {Paul R.} and May, {Elizabeth M.} and Ort, {Michael H.} and Anderson, {Kirk C.} and Elson, {Mark D.}",
note = "Funding Information: Fig. 2 Examples of Sunset Crater ring-width responses to the 1992 tornado. (a) Increasing ring widths, (b) classic reaction (compression) wood for entire rings, (c) reaction (compression) wood evident only in the latewood portions of each ring, (d) temporary ring-width suppression followed by a return to normal growth, (e) permanent ring-width suppression, (f) thin latewood width relative to total ring width. Dots on the sample indicate decadal years, with the quadruple dots indicating the AD 2000 year Acknowledgments Staff from the Coconino National Forest and the Sunset Crater National Monument assisted this research. V{\'i}ctor Pe{\~n}a and Robert Jones assisted in the field, and Frank Telewski assisted with interpretation of results. This research was funded in part by the National Science Foundation, Petrology and Geochemistry. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2010, Springer Science+Business Media B.V.",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1007/978-90-481-8736-2_29",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Advances in Global Change Research",
publisher = "Springer International Publishing",
pages = "305--307",
booktitle = "Advances in Global Change Research",
}