Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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85876 | Dendrochronologia | 2007 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Cubic smoothing splines with a fixed-period response are used widely in producing “expected” growth curves for ring-width and density data in dendroclimatology. A simple modification to the procedure which generates these splines enables the use of a smoothing spline with a user-specified, time-varying flexibility and hence time-varying-response characteristics. The revised procedure is presented here, along with different examples of its application in the context of Regional Curve Standardisation (RCS). The ability to generate a smoothing spline with time-dependent flexibility may have wider application in tree-ring studies.
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Authors
Thomas M. Melvin, Keith R. Briffa, Kurt Nicolussi, Michael Grabner,