Dear Histarch-l subscriber:

This is to inform you that:

Tree Rings and Climate By H. C. Fritts

will be available again shortly from The Blackburn Press.

This classic title contains a lucid description and summary of basic
dendrochronology, especially its application to climatic reconstructions
that are now a highly valued and objective tool for putting future climatic
changes in perspective with past climatic history for up to several thousand
years.

The book's author, Professor Harold Fritts, has been a leader and pioneer in
dendrochronology, dendroclimatology and modeling the tree growth
environmental response system for 35 years. He has over 100 publications
including three books. Tree Rings and Climate was his second book which was
written for the non-botanist and non-statistician who wish to understand the
principles governing tree ring formation and their analysis to reveal past
history, climate and dating of past events.

The basic botanical processes governing tree ring formation are covered in
Chapters 1-5. Chapter 6 deals with some of the simple statistics and what
they reveal about the tree response to environmental and physiological
variables. This includes a very basic discussion of matrix algebra,
eigenvectors and principal components as used in the early works of tree
ring analysis. The last three chapters deal with calibration,
interpretation, reconstruction and verification or climate reconstructions
from tree-ring data. An appendix is included of scientific and common names
of trees, bibliography to the pre-1976 literature, a glossary of terms, an
author index and a subject index.

Professor Fritts has captured and described the basic principles of the
field in a way that has not lost value in the ensuing 25 years. Tree Rings
and Climate remains the basic primer of the field in spite of the
exponential growth of dendrochronology and its expansion and application to
a wide variety of disciplines in the last 25 years.

ISBN 1-930665-39-3

For more information point your browser to;

http://www.blackburnpress.com/trerinandcli.html

Of course, we're also interested in hearing of other titles we might
consider returning  to print. Suggestions are welcome.

Thanks very much.

Frances

Frances Reed
Publisher
The Blackburn Press
973-228-7077
973-228-7276 (fax)
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