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When it is hot (or drought), RW will be small and MXD should be high (fewer and smaller earlywood cells, fewer latewood cells but they will be flatter (narrower) and more dense). ref.

Nature's Style: "Naturally Orthogonal"? « Climate Audit 2007

Winter precipitation in that area, which is critical for earlywood development can vary widely from year to year.

Woodhouse's Temperature Proxies!!! « Climate Audit 2007

Winter precipitation in that area, which is critical for earlywood development can vary widely from year to year.

Dendroclimatologists Answer Back « Climate Audit 2007

I would try to combine ring width, ring density, earlywood density and latewood density, if there were some way to do so.

Nature's Style: "Naturally Orthogonal"? « Climate Audit 2007

When times are good for the tree–adequate moisture and temperature–RW should be large and MXD should be moderate large cells in both earlywood and latewood.

Nature's Style: "Naturally Orthogonal"? « Climate Audit 2007

Fertilization decreased C/N ratio, mean ring density, earlywood density, latewood density, cell wall thickness, cell wall index, and latewood percentage.

Q.e.d. « Climate Audit 2006

Individual tree rings (or trees) do not exhibit a linear relationship between (whatever – latewood, earlywood, width) and temperature, as there are other confounding factors – site, aspect, stand density, nutrient availability, moisture, as I explained upthread.

The RE Benchmark in A&W « Climate Audit 2006

Fertilization decreased C/N ratio, mean ring density, earlywood density, latewood density, cell wall thickness, cell wall index, and latewood percentage.

Q.e.d. « Climate Audit 2006

Ten potential proxy measures of past climate were recovered from Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) at three sites on a latitudinal transect close to the pine limit in northern Finland (earlywood, latewood and annual ring width; earlywood, latewood and maximum density; stable carbon isotope ratio; height increment; needle production; pollen deposition).

Updated Polar Urals Data « Climate Audit 2005

Also since the trees put on earlywood and latewood in each growth ring you can look at the cell structure in a given years growth to tell if they are still actively adding the larger thinner-walled earlywood cells or if they have transistioned into the thicker, smaller and easily identifiable latewood cells.

Bristlecone/Foxtail Site #1: Cirque Peak « Climate Audit 2005