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Tuesday, July 11, 2017Author(s):
PAGES 2k Consortium (Emile-Geay, J., McKay, N., Kaufman, D., von Gunten, L., Wang, J., Anchukaitis, K., Abram, N., Addison, J., Curran, M., Evans, M., Henley, B., Hao, Z., Martrat, B., McGregor, H., Neukom , R., Pederson, G., Stenni, B., Thirumalai, K., WAssociated Group(s):
Reproducible climate reconstructions of the Common Era (1 CE to present) are key to placing industrial-era warming into the context of natural climatic variability. Here we present a community-sourced database of temperature-sensitive proxy records from the PAGES2k initiative. The database gathers 692 records from 648 locations, including all continental regions and major ocean basins. The records are from trees, ice, sediment, corals, speleothems, documentary evidence, and other archives. They range in length from 50 to 2000 years, with a median of 547 years, while temporal resolution ranges from biweekly to centennial. Nearly half of the proxy time series are significantly correlated with HadCRUT4.2 surface temperature over the period 1850–2014. Global temperature composites show a remarkable degree of coherence between high- and low-resolution archives, with broadly similar patterns across archive types, terrestrial versus marine locations, and screening criteria. The database is suited to investigations of global and regional temperature variability over the Common Era, and is shared in the Linked Paleo Data (LiPD) format, including serializations in Matlab, R and Python.
Collaborators (98)
Emile-Geay J, McKay NP, Kaufman DS, von Gunten L, Wang J, Anchukaitis KJ, Abram NJ, Addison JA, Curran MAJ, Evans MN, Henley BJ, Hao Z, Martrat B, McGregor HV, Neukom R, Pederson GT, Stenni B, Thirumalai K, Werner JP, Xu C, Divine DV, Dixon BC, Gergis J, Mundo IA, Nakatsuka T, Phipps SJ, Routson CC, Steig EJ, Tierney JE, Tyler JJ, Allen KJ, Bertler NAN, Björklund J, Chase BM, Chen MT, Cook E, de Jong R, DeLong KL, Dixon DA, Ekaykin AA, Ersek V, Filipsson HL, Francus P, Freund MB, Frezzotti M, Gaire NP, Gajewski K, Ge Q, Goosse H, Gornostaeva A, Grosjean M, Horiuchi K, Hormes A, Husum K, Isaksson E, Kandasamy S, Kawamura K, Kilbourne KH, Koç N, Leduc G, Linderholm HW, Lorrey AM, Mikhalenko V, Mortyn PG, Motoyama H, Moy AD, Mulvaney R, Munz PM, Nash DJ, Oerter H, Opel T, Orsi AJ, Ovchinnikov DV, Porter TJ, Roop HA, Saenger C, Sano M, Sauchyn D, Saunders KM, Seidenkrantz MS, Severi M, Shao X, Sicre MA, Sigl M, Sinclair K, St George S, St Jacques JM, Thamban M, Kuwar Thapa U, Thomas ER, Turney C, Uemura R, Viau AE, Vladimirova DO, Wahl ER, White JWC, Yu Z, Zinke J.
Suggested Citation:
PAGES2k Consortium. A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era. Scientific Data 4:170088 doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.88 (2017).
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1541029. Opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of the NSF.