{"id":13466,"date":"2018-01-15T09:27:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T14:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=13466"},"modified":"2018-01-15T09:27:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T14:27:44","slug":"tree-ring-study-leads-arizona-scientists-to-jet-stream-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/01\/tree-ring-study-leads-arizona-scientists-to-jet-stream-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree ring study leads Arizona scientists to jet stream changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting story about a group led by University of Arizona scientists studying jet stream position using tree ring analysis. By looking at the density of wood produced late in the growing season, the scientists were able to produce a long history of high-summer jet stream locations dating back to 1725. This time series showed that since the 1960s there have been some changes in how the jet stream shifts, taking more extreme positions than in previous decades.\u00a0 You can read more about this at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uanews.arizona.edu\/story\/jet-stream-changes-1960s-linked-more-extreme-weather\">https:\/\/uanews.arizona.edu\/story\/jet-stream-changes-1960s-linked-more-extreme-weather<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13467\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13467\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/TrouetCoresTreeOnMtOlympus-King2010.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13467\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/TrouetCoresTreeOnMtOlympus-King2010-300x166.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/TrouetCoresTreeOnMtOlympus-King2010-300x166.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/TrouetCoresTreeOnMtOlympus-King2010-249x138.jpeg 249w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/01\/TrouetCoresTreeOnMtOlympus-King2010.jpeg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerie Trouet takes a pencil-thin core from an old Bosnian pine (Pinus heldreichii) growing on Mount Olympus in Greece. (Photo: Greg King \u00a9 2010)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting story about a group led by University of Arizona scientists studying jet stream position using tree ring analysis. By looking at the density of wood produced late in the growing season, the scientists were able to produce a long history of high-summer jet stream locations dating back to 1725. This time series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":13467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-forests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13468,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions\/13468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}