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TRL scientists strongly support the sharing of specialized software for the growth and benefit of the tree-ring community. It has been our experience that the best advances made in the discipline have come from the free exchange of ideas and knowledge which are often incorporated in the programs we routinely use .

Dendrochronology is a computationally intensive discipline. As more difficult questions are asked of our data the need for more specialized software becomes apparent. The programs offered here are continually updated or revised reflecting our commitment to advancing tree-ring research.

Disclaimer: All the programs provided here are the intellectual property of the Tree-Ring Lab (TRL) and Columbia University.  You are welcome to use them and give them to others.  The TRL and Columbia University are not responsible for what you do with these programs and will not make claim, for or against, results from experiments you perform with them.  At the same time, we will not be responsible for training or support of these programs.  We suggest using the International Tree-Ring Data Base Forum (ITRDBFOR) for questions and answers regarding these programs. 

Name

Function

Operating System

Last Update

ARSTAN*

Chronology development, plotting and analysis

4/11/2008

Filter*
Analyze frequency and impulse response functions
7/2007

Cofecha

Dating and Measurement Quality Control

11/2007

PcReg

Time Series Correlations

2/2006

Princy

Principle Components Analysis (PCA)

3/2006

Xdate

Date floating series

6/2004

Ind2Col

Reformat chronology files to space delimited column files.

2/2007

Column

Reformat ring-width decade files to space delimited files

1/2006

MakeRec

Reports the content of increment and chronology files

4/10/2008

Edrm

Edit raw ring-width files

6/2004

YoVinnie*

Plot and edit tree-ring data

10/2005

Climask9

Seasonalize monthly data

11/2005

ClimateX

Seasonalize and average monthly climate data

3/2006

DPL

Dendrochronology Program Library

12/2006

GHCNv2_2006

DataServer-GHCN met. Station data.

3/2006

KaplanSSTv2

DataServer-Global SST anomalies

1/23/2008

NADPserver_v3

NADP_2007 US Precipitation Chemistry Data

4/07/2008

VICserver

DataServer VIC Soil Moisture Layers:1915-2003

3/04/2008

ERsst_V3 Server

DataServer-NOAA-NCDC Global SST anomalies.

1/25/2008

ERsst_V2 Server

DataServer-NOAA-NCDC Global SST anomalies.

7/2007

CRUtsSERVER

DataServer-CRUTS2.1 and 1.2 gridded data sets

11/2007

CRUmet
Data Server CRU 10min. Global Mean Monthly Met.

10/2006

HadlSST_1

DataServer-Global 1x1 degree SST only.

1/14/2008

HadCRUt3v

DataServer-Combined land and sea temperature, 5x5 degree

10/2006

DiaTrenPDSI_V1

DataServer-Global PDSI gridded data set (2003)

9/2006

DiaTrenPDSI_V3

DataServer-Global PDSI gridded data set (2005)

1/8/2008

CommInt
Compute Common Period

2/2006

BiaPLT*
Compute and plot BAI and BA from increment data files
6/2007
MilesBeyond
Reformat Oxford Lab RRW

3/2006

Gratzer
Reformat Tsap (RinnTech) measurement files

8/2007

pjk10
Tree-Ring Measuring Program for Macintosh only.

1/26/2008

Programs identified by a * use graphics routines that require a directory containing special font files. To install the font files on Macintosh machines download the folder "Absoft" and place it, with all its' contents, in your computers Applications folder. For WindowsXP users, download the folder "Absoft80" and place it, with all its contents, in the top level of your computers C: drive. Do not let Windows put it elsewhere! These font file folders are also included within the ARSTAN distribution packages. Therefore, if you have already installed ARSTAN correctly you do not need to install theAbsoft or Absoft80 font file folders.

Last modified: 4/10/2008 -pjk

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