Borehole Data
Borehole Temperature Measurements Interpreted as a History of Climate Change
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University of Michigan's Global Database of Borehole
Temperatures and Climate Reconstructions
Climate Forcing Data Sets
Data on Factors Potentially Affecting Climate
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Orbital Variations Calculations
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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
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Atlantic Ocean
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Barbados
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Bermuda
Caribbean Sea
-
Jamaica/Pedro Bank Sclerosponge Data
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La Parguera, Puerto Rico Coral Isotope Data and LIA SST Reconstruction
Western Pacific Ocean
-
Great Barrier Reef, Australia
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Amedee Lighthouse, New Caledonia
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Papua New Guinea
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Maiana, Republic of Kiribati
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Nauru Island
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Tarawa Atoll, Republic of Kiribati
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Vanuatu: Espiritu Santo and Tasmaloum
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Evans et al. Pacific SST Reconstructions
Eastern Pacific Ocean
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Clipperton Atoll
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Fanning Island, Republic of Kiribati
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Galapagos Islands, including Punta Pitt, Santa Cruz,
and Urvina Bay
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Hawaii
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Kiritimati (Christmas) Island, Republic of Kiribati
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Moorea Lagoon
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Palmyra Island
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Panama, including Secas Island and Uva Island
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Rarotonga
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Evans et al. Pacific SST Reconstructions
Indian Ocean
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Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Australia
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Malindi, Kenya
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Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia
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Mahe Island, Seychelles
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Watamu Reef, Kenya
Red Sea
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Aqaba, Jordan
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Ras Umm Sidd, Egypt
Faunal Data
Fossilized Animal Remains as a Proxy for Paleoenvironment
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The Sahara in the Holocene
Historical Documentary Data
Records of Harvest Dates, Waterway Freeze Dates, etc as a Paleoclimate Proxy
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Garcia et al. Manila Galleons Voyage Records
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Ge et al. Winter Half-Year Temperature for East-Central China
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Luterbacher et al. North Atlantic/Europe Sea Level Pressure Reconstruction
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Quinn and Neal Historical Record of El Niño Events and
Description.
-
Pfister et al.
Historical Climate
Indices in Switzerland and
Description.
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Mikami
Historical Climate
Indices in Japan and
Description.
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Schwartz and Reiter North American Lilac Phenology Data
Ice Core Data
Proxy Paleoclimate Indicators include Stable Isotopes, Gas Concentrations, and Dust Content.
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Antarctica
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Byrd
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Dome C
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Dominion
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Dronning Maud Land
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Law Dome
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Newall Glacier
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Siple Dome
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Talos Dome
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Taylor Dome
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Vostok
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Greenland
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Summit 1974
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Crete
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Camp Century
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GISP2
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GRIP
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Dye 2 1977
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Dye 3
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Milcent
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Other Polar Locations
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Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard
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Austofonna, Svalbard
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Agassiz, Baffin Is.
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Devon, Baffin Is.
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Penny, Baffin Is.
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Tropical and Temperate
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East Rongbuk Glacier, Mt. Qomolangma (Everest)
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Fremont Glacier, Wind River Mountains, Wyoming USA
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Huascarán, Peru
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Inilchek Glacier, Tien Shan Mountains, Kyrgystan
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Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
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Lewis Glacier, Kenya
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Mount Logan, Canada
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Quelccaya, Peru
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Sajama, Bolivia
Insect Data
Fossil Insect Data as a Proxy for Paleoenvironment
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British Coleoptera
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British Columbia Chironomid Data
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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
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Owens Lake California Lake Level History and
Description
Benson et al. 1996
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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.
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Ice Core Tropospheric Aerosol Data.
Paleoclimate Modeling Output
Computer Models of the Climate System used to Analyze and Predict Climate Change and Variability
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Climate Model Data and Visualization Page
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Search Engine for Model Output
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Search Engine for Boundary Conditions
Paleofire
Fire history derived from paleoenvironmental proxy data
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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.
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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.
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Lake Telmen, Mongolia
Pollen and Sediment Data
Europe
-
Ammersee, Germany
ostracod oxygen isotope data.
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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
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CLIMAP Data Set
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SPECMAP Data Set
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Relative Sea Level Database
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Calcium Carbonate Concentration Database
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Planktonic Foraminifera Counts Data, Brown University
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Planktonic Foraminifera Counts Data, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
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Planktonic Foraminifera Counts Data, P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
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Paleoceanographic Data Sets by Contributor
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Featured Paleoceanographic Data Sets:
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deMenocal et al. 2000 Holocene subtropical Atlantic SST reconstruction.
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Haug et al. 2001 Cariaco Basin trace metal data and Holocene ITCZ migration.
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Oppo et al. 2003 Holocene NADW variability and benthic foraminifera isotope data.
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Peterson et al. 2000 Tropical Atlantic glacial hydrologic cycle changes and trace element data.
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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
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North American Plant Macrofossil Database
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New England Lakes Plant Macrofossil Data
Pollen Data
Fossil Pollen Grains Interpreted as an Indicator of Past Plant Communities and Paleoclimate
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Global Pollen Database
Phytolith Data
Opal-Silica Fossilized Plant Materials
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Mercader African Phytolith Data
Radiocarbon Data
Radiocarbon Decay Data as a Dating Tool for Organic Deposits
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Great Lakes Region Radiocarbon Data
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Sahara Region Radiocarbon Data
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Hughen et al. 2000 Cariaco Basin Radiocarbon Calibration
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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.
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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.
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Scotland Precipitation and
Description , 1000 Years, Proctor et al. 2000.
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Southern Manitoba precipitation reconstruction, 595 Years, St. George and Nielsen 2002.
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Durango, Mexico precipitation reconstruction, 610 Years, Cleaveland et al. 2002.
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Chihuahua, Mexico precipitation reconstruction, 350 Years, Díaz et al. 2002.
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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