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Borehole Data Climate Forcing Corals Faunal Data
Historical Ice Cores Insect Data Lake Level Data
Loess Paleoclimate Modeling Paleolimnology Paleoceanography
Plant Macrofossils Pollen Phytolith Radiocarbon
Reconstructions Speleothem Tree Ring Other Paleo Data

Borehole Data

Borehole Temperature Measurements Interpreted as a History of Climate Change
University of Michigan's Global Database of Borehole Temperatures and Climate Reconstructions

Climate Forcing Data Sets

Data on Factors Potentially Affecting Climate
Orbital Variations Calculations
Solar Variability
Volcanic Aerosols
Tropospheric Aerosols
Atmospheric Trace Gases
Forcing and Model Results for the Past 1000 Years, Crowley 2000.
Hypothesized Climate Forcing Time Series for the Last 500 Years, Robertson et al. 2001.
Volcanic Eruptions and Aerosol Optical Depth, 40,000 Years, Bryson 1988.

Coral Data

Stable Isotope and Trace Metal Data as Proxies of Upper Ocean Environment
Atlantic Ocean
Barbados
Bermuda
Caribbean Sea
Jamaica/Pedro Bank Sclerosponge Data
La Parguera, Puerto Rico Coral Isotope Data and LIA SST Reconstruction
Western Pacific Ocean
Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Amedee Lighthouse, New Caledonia
Papua New Guinea
Maiana, Republic of Kiribati
Nauru Island
Tarawa Atoll, Republic of Kiribati
Vanuatu: Espiritu Santo and Tasmaloum
Evans et al. Pacific SST Reconstructions
Eastern Pacific Ocean
Clipperton Atoll
Fanning Island, Republic of Kiribati
Galapagos Islands, including Punta Pitt, Santa Cruz, and Urvina Bay
Hawaii
Kiritimati (Christmas) Island, Republic of Kiribati
Moorea Lagoon
Palmyra Island
Panama, including Secas Island and Uva Island
Rarotonga
Evans et al. Pacific SST Reconstructions
Indian Ocean
Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Australia
Malindi, Kenya
Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia
Mahe Island, Seychelles
Watamu Reef, Kenya
Red Sea
Aqaba, Jordan
Ras Umm Sidd, Egypt

Faunal Data

Fossilized Animal Remains as a Proxy for Paleoenvironment
The Sahara in the Holocene

Historical Documentary Data

Records of Harvest Dates, Waterway Freeze Dates, etc as a Paleoclimate Proxy
Garcia et al. Manila Galleons Voyage Records
Ge et al. Winter Half-Year Temperature for East-Central China
Luterbacher et al. North Atlantic/Europe Sea Level Pressure Reconstruction
Quinn and Neal Historical Record of El Niño Events and Description.
Pfister et al. Historical Climate Indices in Switzerland and Description.
Mikami Historical Climate Indices in Japan and Description.
Schwartz and Reiter North American Lilac Phenology Data

Ice Core Data

Proxy Paleoclimate Indicators include Stable Isotopes, Gas Concentrations, and Dust Content.
Antarctica
Byrd
Dome C
Dominion
Dronning Maud Land
Law Dome
Newall Glacier
Siple Dome
Talos Dome
Taylor Dome
Vostok
Greenland
Summit 1974
Crete
Camp Century
GISP2
GRIP
Dye 2 1977
Dye 3
Milcent
Other Polar Locations
Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard
Austofonna, Svalbard
Agassiz, Baffin Is.
Devon, Baffin Is.
Penny, Baffin Is.
Tropical and Temperate
East Rongbuk Glacier, Mt. Qomolangma (Everest)
Fremont Glacier, Wind River Mountains, Wyoming USA
Huascarán, Peru
Inilchek Glacier, Tien Shan Mountains, Kyrgystan
Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Lewis Glacier, Kenya
Mount Logan, Canada
Quelccaya, Peru
Sajama, Bolivia

Insect Data

Fossil Insect Data as a Proxy for Paleoenvironment
British Coleoptera
British Columbia Chironomid Data
North American Beetles

Lake Level Databases

Geomorphic Reconstructions of Past Lake Levels as an Indicator of Precipitation/Evaporation
Caspian and Aral Seas: Data and Description
Europe: Data and Description
Former Soviet Union and Mongolia: Data and Description
Oxford Global Lake Level Database: Data and Description
Viau and Gajewski 2001 Global Lake Level Status Grids : Data and Description
Owens Lake California Lake Level History and Description Benson et al. 1996
Peace-Athabasca Lake Levels and Description Stockton and Fritts 1973.

Loess Data

Windblown Glacial Dust Deposits as a Proxy for Paleoenvironment
DIRTMAP Global Eolian Flux Database, Last Glacial Maximum, Late Holocene, and Modern:
Version 2 all data, or individual version 2 tables by source type.
Also available are the version 1 database tables.

Ding et al. Lingtai, China Loess Data and Description.
Kohfeld et al. Mid-continent USA Peoria Loess Thickness Data.
Ice Core Tropospheric Aerosol Data.

Paleoclimate Modeling Output

Computer Models of the Climate System used to Analyze and Predict Climate Change and Variability
Climate Model Data and Visualization Page
Search Engine for Model Output
Search Engine for Boundary Conditions

Paleofire

Fire history derived from paleoenvironmental proxy data
International Multiproxy Paleofire Database (IMPD) project

Paleolimnology Data

Lake Sediment Data Including Stable Isotopes and Microfauna as a Proxy for Paleoenvironment
Africa
Lake Naivasha
Lake Malawi (2002) 25,000 year biogenic silica and mass accumulation rate data, Text or Microsoft Excel format.
Lake Malawi (2001) 700 year biogenic silica data, Text or Microsoft Excel format.
Lake Tanganyika and Burundi Highlands Precipitation Reconstruction
Lake Victoria, Pilkington Bay (2003) 10,000 year Diatom Correspondence Analysis data.
Lake Victoria (2002) 14,000 year Diatom Correspondence Analysis data.
Asia
Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan Cores IK97-10P and IK97-11P, Radiocarbon Dates, and Data Description.
Lake Telmen, Mongolia Pollen and Sediment Data
Europe
Ammersee, Germany ostracod oxygen isotope data.
Lago Grande di Monticchio, Italy data as a Microsoft Excel file or in Text format, plus Data Description.
West Greenland
Lake SFL4 and Lake Naujg1 data, plus Data Description
North America
Canada:
Baffin Island: Upper Soper Lake
Baffin Island: Donard Lake
Ontario: Crawford Lake and Twiss Pond data, and Data description.
United States:
Alaska: Birch Lake Core D, Core F, Cores G&H, Core I , Core K , C14 Dates, and Description.
Alaska: Meli Lake 14C Dates, Bulk Density, C/N Ratio , d13C , d15N , d18O, LOI , Mag. Sus. , and Description.
Alaska: Tangled Up Lake 14C Dates, Bulk Density, C/N Ratio , d13C , d15N , d18O, Organic C , Mag. Sus. , and Description.
California: Benson et al. 2003 Mono Lake Data and Description
California: Li et al. 1997 Mono Lake Data and Description
California: Owens Lake Data
California: Wilson Creek Formation Data in Text or Microsoft Excel format.
Minnesota: Elk Lake; Deep Lake C14 Dates, Isotopes, Pollen, Varves, and Description.
Nevada: Pyramid Lake and Lahontan Basin
North Dakota: Moon Lake ; Rice Lake Data and Description.
New England: Macrofossil Data and Description
New England: Glacial Lake Hitchcock Varves and Description
New England: Terrigenous layers and paleostorms
Central America:
Guatemala: Lake Peten-Itza Ostracod and Gastropod Stable Isotope Data:
Cochliopina spp., Cytheridella ilosvayi, Psudocandona spp., Pyrgophorus spp., and Data Description.
Mexico: Lake Chichancanab and Punta Laguna Data and Description
South America
Ecuador: Laguna Pallcacocha Grey Scale Data and Description.
Venezuela: Lake Valencia Isotope and Carbonate Data

Paleoceanography Data

Ocean Sediment Chemistry and Fossil Plankton Data as a Proxy for Paleoenvironment
CLIMAP Data Set
SPECMAP Data Set
Relative Sea Level Database
Calcium Carbonate Concentration Database
Planktonic Foraminifera Counts Data, Brown University
Planktonic Foraminifera Counts Data, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Planktonic Foraminifera Counts Data, P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
Paleoceanographic Data Sets by Contributor
Featured Paleoceanographic Data Sets:
deMenocal et al. 2000 Holocene subtropical Atlantic SST reconstruction.
Haug et al. 2001 Cariaco Basin trace metal data and Holocene ITCZ migration.
Oppo et al. 2003 Holocene NADW variability and benthic foraminifera isotope data.
Peterson et al. 2000 Tropical Atlantic glacial hydrologic cycle changes and trace element data.
Schulz et al. 1998 Arabian Sea stable isotope and TOC data and North Atlantic teleconnections.

Plant Macrofossil Data

Visible Plant Fragments such as Cones, Twigs, and Seeds as a Proxy for Paleoenvironment
North American Plant Macrofossil Database
New England Lakes Plant Macrofossil Data

Pollen Data

Fossil Pollen Grains Interpreted as an Indicator of Past Plant Communities and Paleoclimate
Global Pollen Database

Phytolith Data

Opal-Silica Fossilized Plant Materials
Mercader African Phytolith Data

Radiocarbon Data

Radiocarbon Decay Data as a Dating Tool for Organic Deposits
Great Lakes Region Radiocarbon Data
Sahara Region Radiocarbon Data
Hughen et al. 2000 Cariaco Basin Radiocarbon Calibration
Hughen et al. 2004 Cariaco Basin 50KYr. Radiocarbon Calibration

Reconstructed Climate Parameters

Various Paleoenvironmental Proxy Data Interpreted in Paleoenvironmental Terms

Reconstructed Air Temperature, Global and Hemispheric

Global Temperature Data and Description,1000 Years, Jones et al. 1998
Global Temperature Patterns and Spatial Distribution, 600 Years, Mann et al. 2000.
Global Temperature, 600 Years, Mann et al. 1998.
Global Temperature, 500 Years, Pollack et al. 1998.
Vostok Temperature and Description, 414,000 Years, Petit et al. 1999.
N. Hemisphere and Regional Scale Temperature, 600 Years, Briffa et al. 2001.
N. Hemisphere Temperature and Description, 600 Years, Briffa et al. 1998.
N. Hemisphere Temperature, 1000 Years, Crowley and Lowery 2000.
N. Hemisphere Temperature, 1000 Years, Esper et al. 2002.
Hemispheric Temperature, NAO, and SOI, 1000 Years, Jones et al. 2001.
N. Hemisphere Temperature, 1000 Years, Mann et al. 1999.
Hemispheric Temperature, 2000 Years, Mann and Jones 2003.
Reconstructed Air Temperature, Local and Regional
Arctic Temperature, 400 Years, Overpeck et al. 1997
China Temperature, 2000 Years, Yang et al. 2002.
East China Winter Temperature, 2000 Years, Ge et al. 2003.
Beijing, China Temperature, 2650 Years, Tan et al. 2003.
Yamal Peninsula, western Siberia, Summer Temperature, 4000 Years, Hantemirov and Shiyatov 2002.
Kathmandu, Nepal, Pre- and Post- Monsoon Temperature, 550 Years, Cook et al. 2003.
New Zealand Temperature , 270 Years, Xiong and Palmer 2000.
Tasmania Temperature , 3600 Years, Cook et al. 2000
European Gridded and Regional Summer Temperature, 225 Years, Briffa 1988.
Northern Coastal Norway Temperature and Description, 650 Years, Kirchhefer 2001
Baffin Island Summer Temperature, 500 Years, Hughen et al. 2000.
Baffin Island Summer Temperature, 1200 Years, Moore et al. 2001.
Northwest Canada Temperature and Description, 350 Years, Szeicz et al. 1995.
Gulf of Alaska March-May, March-Sept., and April-Sept. Temperature, 400 Years, Wiles et al. 1998.
USA Pacific Northwest Temperature , 250 Years, Wiles et al. 1996.
Western North America Gridded and Regional Summer Temperature, 400 Years, Briffa et al. 1992.
Large Scale North American Temperature and Precipitation reconstructions and Description, 400 Years, Fritts 1991.
Reconstructed Hydroclimate, Precipitation
East African Precipitation 40,000 Years, Bonnefille and Chalié 2000.
Huashuan, China Precipitation and Description, 400 Years, Hughes et al. 1994.
Mongolia Riverflow and Precipitation Reconstructions, 350 Years, Pederson et al. 2001.
Turkey Precipitation 350 Years, D'Arrigo and Cullen 2001.
Southwest Turkey Precipitation 660 Years, Touchan et al. 2003.
Scotland Precipitation, 3600 Years, Proctor et al. 2002.
Scotland Precipitation and Description , 1000 Years, Proctor et al. 2000.
Southern Manitoba precipitation reconstruction, 595 Years, St. George and Nielsen 2002.
Durango, Mexico precipitation reconstruction, 610 Years, Cleaveland et al. 2002.
Chihuahua, Mexico precipitation reconstruction, 350 Years, Díaz et al. 2002.
Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, precipitation reconstruction, 220 Years, Pohl et al. 2003.
Northeast USA Little Ice Age Precipitation and Description, 2000 Years, Gajewski 1988.
Eastern Oregon Precipitation and PDSI and Description, 300 Years, Garfin and Hughes 1997.
Arizona and New Mexico Climate Division Precipitation, 1000 Years, Ni et al. 2002.
El Malpais, New Mexico Precipitation, 2129 Years, Grissino 1996.
Nevada Precipitation, 8000 Years, Hughes and Graumlich 1996.
Southeast USA Precipitation and PDSI reconstructions plus Description, 1000 Years, Stahle and Cleaveland 1992.
Montpelier Plantation, Virginia Precipitation, 180 Years, Druckenbrod et al. 2003.
Iowa Precipitation and PDSI reconstructions and Description, 340 Years, Cleaveland and Duvick 1992.
Missouri Precipitation and PDSI reconstructions and Description, 400 Years, Cleaveland and Stahle 1996.
Large Scale North American Temperature and Precipitation reconstructions and Description, 400 Years, Fritts 1991.
Reconstructed Hydroclimate, Streamflow
Burdekin River, Australia Streamflow and Description, 350 Years, Isdale et al. 1998.
Sacramento River, California flow reconstruction and Description, 1109 Years, Meko et al. 2001.
Yellowstone River, Montana flow reconstruction, 270 Years, Graumlich et al. in press.
TreeFlow Project - Tree Ring Reconstructions of Streamflow for Colorado
White River, Arkansas flow reconstruction and Description, 963 Years, Cleaveland 2000.
White River, Arkansas flow reconstruction and Description, 280 Years, Cleaveland and Stahle 1989.
Clear Creek Colorado Annual Flow Reconstruction and Description, 300 Years, Woodhouse 2000.
Middle Boulder Creek Colorado Flow Reconstruction and Description, 280 Years, Woodhouse 2001.
Reconstructed Hydroclimate, Drought
NOAA/NESDIS North American Drought Variability project (includes Tree-ring reconstructed PDSI).
East Africa Drought, 1100 Years, Verschuren et al. 2000.
U.S. Drought Area Index and Description, 270 Years, Cook et al. 1997.
Southwest US Drought Index and Description, 570 Years, Cook unpublished data.
East USA Lost Colony/Jamestown Droughts, 800 Years, Stahle et al. 1998.
North American Great Plains Drought, 2300 Years, Laird et al. 1996.
North American Great Plains Drought, 11,000 Years, Laird et al. 1996.
Eastern Colorado PDSI, 440 Years, Woodhouse et al. 2001.
Northeastern Utah PDSI, 600 Years, Gray et al. 2003.
Northern California and Nevada Multicentennial Droughts , 7600 Years, Benson et al. 2002.
Central American Drought and the Classic Maya Civilization, 9700 Years, Hodell et al. 1995.
Upper Mississippi Basin Aridity, 10,000 Years, Dean et al. 1997.
A Paleo Perspective on North American Drought
Reconstructed Hydroclimate, Other

Global Lake Level Histories
San Francisco Bay Salinity reconstructions and Description, 390 Years, Stahle et al. 2001.
Gunnison River Basin Snow Water Equivalent Reconstruction , 430 Years, Woodhouse 2003.
Michigan Water Table Depth Reconstruction, 3,500 Years, Booth and Jackson 2003.
Chesapeake Bay Salinity reconstructions, text or Excel format, 550 Years, Cronin et al. 2000.
Northern England Peatland Water Table and Description, 4800 Years, Charman 2000.
Reconstructed Atmospheric Circulation Patterns
Pacific Decadal Oscillation, 330 Years, Biondi et al. 2001.
Niño 3 Index and Description, 575 Years, Cook unpublished.
Niño 3 Index and Description, 330 Years, Mann et al. 2000.
El Niño Events and Description, 500 Years, Quinn and Neal 1983.
Southern Oscillation Index and Description, 270 Years, Stahle et al. 1998.
Arctic Oscillation Warm Season SAT and SLP Indices, 325 Years, D'Arrigo et al. 2003.
North Atlantic Oscillation Index, 600 Years, Cook et al. 2002.
North Atlantic Oscillation Index, 280 Years, Cook et al. 1998.
North Atlantic Oscillation Index, 550 Years, Glueck and Stockton 2001.
North Atlantic Oscillation Index, 500 Years, Luterbacher et al. 2002.
Eastern North Atlantic-European Sea Level Pressure Reconstruction, 500 Years, Luterbacher et al. 2002.
North Atlantic Oscillation Index, Southern Oscillation Index, 1000 Years, Jones et al. 2001.
Increase in the Asian SW Monsoon During the Past Four Centuries , 400 Years, Anderson et al. 2002.
Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature

Global LGM Sea Surface Temperature and Description, 18,000 Years Before Present, Mix et al. 1999.
Global Gridded LGM Sea Surface Temperature and Salinity and Description, 18,000 Years Before Present, Paul and Schäfer-Neth 2003.
Global Sea Surface Temperature, Holocene/Modern, Bollmann et al. 2002.
Global Gridded LGM Sea Surface Temperature and Description, 18,000 Years Before Present, Hostetler and Mix 1999.
Global CLIMAP LGM Sea Surface Temperature, 18,000 Years Before Present, CLIMAP Members 1981.
Pacific SST Reconstructions and Description, 400 Years, Evans et al. 2002.
Southwest Pacific Sea Surface Temperature, 340,000 Years, Pahnke et al. 2003.
Southwest Pacific LGM Sea Surface Temperature and Description, 18,000 Years Before Present, Barrows et al. 2000.
Equatorial Pacific Sea Surface Temperature and Description, 470,000 Years, Lea et al. 2000.
South China Sea Alkenone Deglacial SST Estimates, 3,000-16,000 Years Before Present, Kienast et al. 2001
California Current Collapse, LGM, 18,000 Years Before Present, Herbert et al. 2001
Rarotonga Sea Surface Temperature Reconstruction and Description, 270 Years, Linsley et al. 2000.
Southern Peru-Chile Current Sea Surface Temperature Reconstruction, 8,000 Years, Lamy et al. 2002.
Great Barrier Reef Sea Surface Temperature Reconstruction and Description, 440 Years, Wörheide 1998.
Vanuatu Sea Surface Temperature and Description, 4200 Years Before Present, Correge et al. 2000.
Subtropical Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature and Description, 23,000 Years, deMenocal et al. 2000.
Cariaco Basin Sea Surface Temperature, 25,000 Years, Lea et al. 2003.
North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature, 107,000 Years, Bard 2002.
Equatorial Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature and Description, 30,000 Years, Sikes and Keigwin 1994.
Equatorial and North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature and Description, 125,000 Years, Waelbroeck et al. 1998.
Chesapeake Bay Spring Temperature, 2,200 Years, Cronin et al. 2003.
Northeast Caribbean Sea Surface Temperature, 1,950 Years, Nyberg et al. 2002.
Northeast Caribbean Sea Surface Temperature, 300 Years, Winter et al. 2000.
Indian Ocean Sea Surface Temperature, 171,000 Years, Bard et al. 1997.
Southern Ocean Sea Surface Temperature and Description, 200,000 Years, Brathauer et al. 1999.
Southern Ocean Sea Surface Temperature and Description, 290,000 Years, Mashiotta et al. 1999.
Reconstructed Earth Surface Conditions
North American Vegetation, 18,000 Years Before Present, Overpeck et al. 1992.
European Vegetation (BIOME6000), 6000 Years Before Present, Prentice et al. 1996.
Global Ice Topography, 21,000 Years, Peltier 1994.
Global Ice Coverage, 21,000 Years, Peltier 1994.
Global Relative Sea Level Histories, 21,000 Years, Peltier and Tushingham 1992.
Tahiti Relative Sea Level History, 13,000 Years, Bard et al. 1996.
Miscellaneous Reconstructions
"Climate Since AD 1500" Collected reconstructions, 500 Years, Bradley and Jones 1992.

Speleothem (Cave Deposit) Data

Layered Cave Deposits contain Paleoenvironmental Proxy Data
Bar-Matthews et al. (2003), 250,000 Year Soreq and Peqiin Caves, Israel Stable Isotope Data.
Vaks et al. (2003), 67,000 Year Ma'ale Efrayim Cave, Israel Stable Isotope Data.
Lee-Thorp et al. (2001), Holmgren et al. (1999), 6500 Year Cold Air Cave, South Africa Stable Isotope Data.
Tan et al. (2003) ShiHua Cave, Beijing, China Layer Thickness Data and Temperature Reconstruction
Li and Hu 1998 ShiHua Cave, Beijing, China Stable Isotope Data
Genty et al. (2003) Villars Cave, France Oxygen and Carbon Isotope Data.
Proctor et al. 2000 Northwest Scotland 1000 Year Band Thickness Data and Precipitation Reconstruction and Description.
Proctor et al. 2002 Northwest Scotland 3600 Year Band Thickness Data Text or Microsoft Excel format.
Frappier et al. (2002) Actun Tunichil Muknal Cave, Belize Carbon Isotope Data.
Polyak and Asmerom 2001 southern New Mexico Band Thickness Data and Description.

Treering Data

Tree Ring Width and Density Data Record Tree Growth Rates as a Proxy for Paleoenvironment
The International Tree Ring Data Bank

Other Paleo Data

Barrows et al. 2001 Dating of Late Pleistocene Australian Mainland Glaciation
IAEA/WMO Network of Isotopes in Precipitation
Correlation of Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scales
Late Quaternary Ice Extent and Topography
Rousseau and Puisségur 1999 MIS 5 French Alps Land Snails Data
Schwartz and Reiter North American Lilac Phenology Data

21 May 2004