A multiproxy database of western North American Holocene paleoclimate records
<p>Holocene climate reconstructions are useful for understanding the diverse features and spatial heterogeneity of past and future climate change. Here we present a database of western North American Holocene paleoclimate records. The database gathers paleoclimate time series from 184 terrestr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2021-04-01
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| Series: | Earth System Science Data |
| Online Access: | https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/13/1613/2021/essd-13-1613-2021.pdf |
| Summary: | <p>Holocene climate reconstructions are useful for understanding the diverse
features and spatial heterogeneity of past and future climate change. Here
we present a database of western North American Holocene paleoclimate
records. The database gathers paleoclimate time series from 184 terrestrial
and marine sites, including 381 individual proxy records. The records span
at least 4000 of the last 12 000 years (median duration of 10 725 years)
and have been screened for resolution, chronologic control, and climate
sensitivity. Records were included that reflect temperature, hydroclimate,
or circulation features. The database is shared in the machine readable
Linked Paleo Data (LiPD) format and includes geochronologic data for
generating site-level time-uncertain ensembles. This publicly accessible and
curated collection of proxy paleoclimate records will have wide research
applications, including, for example, investigations of the primary features
of ocean–atmospheric circulation along the eastern margin of the North
Pacific and the latitudinal response of climate to orbital changes. The
database is available for download at <a href="https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12863843.v1">https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12863843.v1</a> (Routson and McKay, 2020).</p> |
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| ISSN: | 1866-3508 1866-3516 |