@prefix this: . @prefix sub: . @prefix np: . @prefix rdf: . @prefix prov: . @prefix npx: . @prefix dc: . @prefix xsd: . sub:Head { this: a np:Nanopublication; np:hasAssertion sub:assertion; np:hasProvenance sub:provenance; np:hasPublicationInfo sub:pubinfo . } sub:assertion { a ; dc:description "Downloaded the two Tucson-format .crn chronologies from NCEI, parsed the standard index (x1000, 9990 = missing) and sample depth, and took 1390-1910 (az572, 521 yr, complete) and 1420-1910 (az547, 491 yr). Test 1: raw periodogram of the mean-removed index against 5000 AR(1) surrogates matched in lag-1 autocorrelation (0.45, 0.52) and variance; the largest ordinate at 120-200 yr was compared with the pointwise 95th percentile (and with a band-maximum null). Test 2: 101-yr centred running mean (51-yr as sensitivity); local maxima at least 50 yr apart; intervals between successive maxima."; "Measured: 75.4 yr, mean interval between successive maxima of the 101-yr-smoothed Flagstaff index 1390-1910 (intervals 73, 57, 70, 68, 109); strongest 120-200-yr periodogram ordinate at 174 yr has power 1.33 vs AR(1) 95th percentile 1.64 (n = 521, 521-yr window holds ~3.5 cycles of 150 yr; spectral test low-powered by design, so the smoothed-maxima test was pre-registered alongside). Interpretation: Thompson relayed Douglass's (1909, 1914) reading of century-smoothed Flagstaff pine ring widths as showing a ~150-yr climatic cycle. 'Regular period of almost exactly 150 years' is read as a spectral line in the 130-170-yr band that is significant against a red-noise background, together with smoothed maxima recurring at 150 +/- 25 yr. The moisture-versus-temperature attribution is not tested. Modern ITRDB chronologies are standardized indices (age trend removed) built from many trees, not the few raw series Douglass had; they are the best available record of the same trees' growth signal. A 521-yr window holds only ~3.5 cycles of 150 yr, so the spectral test is low-powered and is complemented by the smoothed-maxima test."; "Claim test of thompson1917-ch03-24: refutes, confidence 0.8"; ; prov:wasAttributedTo ; "Planned datasets: itrdb-az572-flagstaff-pipo, itrdb-az547-walnut-canyon-pipo"; "claim-test/0.1.0"; "biological"; "Refutes if both tests fail on az572 (no significant 120-200-yr spectral peak against red noise, and smoothed maxima spaced irregularly or outside 125-175 yr). Mixed if exactly one test passes, or if az572 passes but the az547 replicate fails both tests."; "Both pre-registered tests fail at both sites: no 120-200-yr spectral ordinate exceeds the red-noise 95th percentile (Flagstaff 174 yr: 1.33 vs 1.64; Walnut Canyon 164 yr: 2.21 vs 3.39), and century-smoothed maxima recur every 57-133 yr (means 75 and 89 yr), not every 150. The smoothed series do oscillate, but irregularly and roughly twice as fast as Thompson's figure; a 51-yr smoothing gives the same conclusion.", "ITRDB standard chronologies remove the age trend by curve fitting; Douglass smoothed raw widths of a few trees. Detrending with conservative curves preserves century-scale variance in most chronologies but could damp a very long oscillation; the 521-yr window itself limits detectable periods to well under ~260 yr for two cycles.", "Not pre-registered, reported as observation only: both sites show a ~70-yr spectral peak (Walnut Canyon 70 yr at 2.4x the AR(1) 95th percentile; Flagstaff 74 yr at 1.4x), in the range of known multidecadal drought variability in the Southwest, not the 150-yr cycle claimed.", "Sample depth is thin early in the window (Flagstaff: 1-3 trees before 1400, 3-6 in the 1400s; Walnut Canyon: 2-4 trees before 1600), so the 15th-16th-century part of the index is noisy; this weakens any periodicity test but cannot create a regular 150-yr cycle where none is detected.", "The moisture-versus-temperature attribution in the claim was not tested."; "Pre-registered. Primary series: ITRDB chronology az572 (Flagstaff, Arizona, Pinus ponderosa, 'Modern + Archaeological', AD 570-1987), the standard index over the window 1390-1910 (521 yr). Replicate: ITRDB az547 (Walnut Canyon, Pinus ponderosa, 1420-1987) over 1420-1910. Test 1 (spectral): periodogram of the mean-removed annual index; null = AR(1) with the series' lag-1 autocorrelation and variance, 5000 surrogates; pass if the largest periodogram ordinate at periods 120-200 yr exceeds the pointwise 95th percentile of the surrogate periodograms and its period lies in 130-170 yr. Test 2 (regularity of century-smoothed maxima, Douglass's own procedure): 101-yr centred running mean of the index (using data from 1340 on so the smoothed series spans 1390-1910); find local maxima of the smoothed series separated by at least 50 yr; pass if there are at least two intervals between successive maxima and every interval lies in 125-175 yr. Supports if both tests pass on az572."; "Refutes if both tests fail on az572 (no significant 120-200-yr spectral peak against red noise, and smoothed maxima spaced irregularly or outside 125-175 yr). Mixed if exactly one test passes, or if az572 passes but the az547 replicate fails both tests."; "0.8"^^xsd:double; , ; "refutes"; "Annual ring-width chronologies of Arizona ponderosa pine over roughly 1390-1910 contain a regular oscillation with a period of about 150 years, visible as a significant spectral peak near 150 yr and as century-smoothed maxima recurring every ~150 yr."; "Downloaded the two Tucson-format .crn chronologies from NCEI, parsed the standard index (x1000, 9990 = missing) and sample depth, and took 1390-1910 (az572, 521 yr, complete) and 1420-1910 (az547, 491 yr). Test 1: raw periodogram of the mean-removed index against 5000 AR(1) surrogates matched in lag-1 autocorrelation (0.45, 0.52) and variance; the largest ordinate at 120-200 yr was compared with the pointwise 95th percentile (and with a band-maximum null). Test 2: 101-yr centred running mean (51-yr as sensitivity); local maxima at least 50 yr apart; intervals between successive maxima."; "Pre-registered. Primary series: ITRDB chronology az572 (Flagstaff, Arizona, Pinus ponderosa, 'Modern + Archaeological', AD 570-1987), the standard index over the window 1390-1910 (521 yr). Replicate: ITRDB az547 (Walnut Canyon, Pinus ponderosa, 1420-1987) over 1420-1910. Test 1 (spectral): periodogram of the mean-removed annual index; null = AR(1) with the series' lag-1 autocorrelation and variance, 5000 surrogates; pass if the largest periodogram ordinate at periods 120-200 yr exceeds the pointwise 95th percentile of the surrogate periodograms and its period lies in 130-170 yr. Test 2 (regularity of century-smoothed maxima, Douglass's own procedure): 101-yr centred running mean of the index (using data from 1340 on so the smoothed series spans 1390-1910); find local maxima of the smoothed series separated by at least 50 yr; pass if there are at least two intervals between successive maxima and every interval lies in 125-175 yr. Supports if both tests pass on az572."; "false"^^xsd:boolean . . a ; dc:description "primary standard ring-width index, window 1390-1910"; dc:license "NOAA NCEI paleoclimatology data: public domain / open"; "Dataset: ITRDB chronology az572, Flagstaff Modern+Archaeological, Pinus ponderosa (Dean & Robinson), AD 570-1987"; prov:atLocation ; prov:wasDerivedFrom ; "sha256:c4726092663966bd6a4d783c9805cf8c2a3e653fc9e1496d459a2d4a1dd4ff4f" . a ; dc:description "replicate, window 1420-1910"; dc:license "NOAA NCEI paleoclimatology data: public domain / open"; "Dataset: ITRDB chronology az547, Walnut Canyon, Pinus ponderosa (Graybill), AD 1420-1987"; prov:atLocation ; prov:wasDerivedFrom ; "sha256:6b6aae0ab2072f2372e63b0c166f99f3fda0c7658ef46c2ab66956beb8739a61" . } sub:provenance { a prov:SoftwareAgent; "delphisci claim tester (claude-fable-5.1; cursor/claim-tests-thompson-efb7)"; prov:actedOnBehalfOf ; . a ; dc:identifier "claude-fable-5.1" . sub:assertion prov:wasAttributedTo ; prov:wasDerivedFrom ; prov:wasGeneratedBy sub:test . sub:plan prov:hadPlan . sub:test a prov:Activity; prov:qualifiedAssociation sub:plan; prov:wasAssociatedWith . } sub:pubinfo { this: dc:created "2026-11-08T16:24:31.895Z"^^xsd:dateTime; dc:creator ; dc:license ; npx:hasNanopubType ; npx:introduces ; "Claim test of thompson1917-ch03-24: refutes, confidence 0.8"; . sub:sig npx:hasAlgorithm "RSA"; npx:hasPublicKey "MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAyFHtPB6p0mCjDozxlOY9CmO3nBm7Te3jFbXyLmM+G1tGe47Da0jYIbhkl9Oo1ZjxmCa3LCwlEqK8gj6hEIcL4ahW30JXh9HycfKVk1bugkzMEV15tJdTzAU3sGMFnbNsn43xY2LFLy45tApkRm5byEiM7oRRrooIdwoQKnP4Wzq/bfAoJ9qvW+MGkelyOTd1jbSt+KfmT7xKmDfWzAHddUlWwMX2QJOLxDaffOteTop6ZRgPiNmPJKA/S62Gac9XtSYT3oDkZ6/nr5cxxNLpOyxTf5FPISiCe11xYO/unYjY+mwnOfA8yhJIyx1l0O9I0vpOpn+E5TvyHJV+oSTrvwIDAQAB"; npx:hasSignature "EfeDdqg+NfmNDec4BEC/qvjGoGhfJqMu/1ErqBBi4HrtdAsB2G9DPeuk7p3R0Ut/ROrlaYYs1Dwr8dH21tY3Wik8C30fmwnfkzikMkidSLwLZgViZd8M3mmHNhezugZuXbCf5qb6t9NQ/zAVUjF69VCl/fH9UzMGB1VERbbDoqJW6g99XC6YEOiYODjO3CP+f9psbH9oOqqp/i3YPqVV+1rr1UAiJzBdMwU6w4c+BcXcVQuVsmoW1hII/h+WrKGNWPCk3gFjiOG7FqnpO+yMrt+zKzFJzRvZ1QRwRGVXAC1lTHNonYB5xJay230ZmN6SORMSh2rxaPoT+SbVeAqOMA=="; npx:hasSignatureTarget this:; npx:signedBy . }