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1. Orbital Variations and Insolation Database, NOAA/NCDC/WDC Paleoclimatology [EARTH_LAND_NGDC_PALEOCLIM_INSOL]
Data on changes in the earth's orbital parameters and the resulting variations in insolation were calculated by A. Berger of the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. Data includes both the ...


2. SPECMAP Project; Paleoclimate Data, NOAA/NCDC/WDC Paleoclimatology [EARTH_LAND_NGDC_PALEOCL_SPECMAP]
The SPECMAP paleoclimate archives at NOAA/NCDC World Data Center for Paleoclimatology consist of four (4) archives: ARCHIVE 1 contains 101 SPECMAP files, including planktonic counts and isotope values, ...


3. Climate and the Classic Maya Civilization Slide Set [G02096]
For over a decade, archaeologists have been trying to unlock the mystery surrounding one ancient society's collapse of the Classic Maya. Did human-induced sociopolitical or ecological change cause ...


4. Maiana Atoll Isotope (delta 18O, delta 13C) Data for 1840 to 1995 [G2051]
Maiana bimonthly oxygen isotopic composition, 1840-1995. Notes on the data: File includes columns for Year AD (bimonthly resolution = dec/jan, feb/mar) and coral d18O (a). The coral used ...


5. NICL Ice Cores Inventory (including GISP2) for Paleoclimate Data [EARTH_LAND_NGDC_PALEO_NICL_GISP]
The NICL Inventory describes the ice core holdings of the National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL), a facility for storing, curating, and studying ice cores recovered from the world's polar ...


6. Vostok Antarctic Ice Core Data for 420,000 years, from WDC Paleoclimatology [EARTH_LAND_NGDC_PALEO_VOSTOK1]
The Vostok Ice Core Data is one of the primary Antarctic Paleoclimate Datasets. It covers the time from the present back to 422,000 years before the present. It is available from the World ...


7. Pakitsoq carbon-14 of methane and supporting gas data [severinghaus_0221470]
This data set includes carbon-14 measurements on atmospheric methane obtained from air bubbles in glacial ice at the Pakitsoq outcrop in western Greenland, during two abrupt increases in methane concentration ...


8. Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) Methane Data, NOAA/NCDC, WDC Paleoclimatology [NGDC_WDCA_PALEO_GRIP_CH4]
This data set consists of atmospheric methane (CH4) concentrations from the 3,230 m ice core taken by the Greenland Ice-core Project (GRIP) covering the period between 40,000 and 8,000 yBP. Methane ...


9. Papua New Guinea Stable Isotope (delta 18O) Data for 1922 to 1991 [G2050]   CHILD DIFs
Samples were collected in 1991 and 1992 from massive Porites corals in Madang Lagoon (5 deg 13'S; 145deg 49'E, .2M Depth) and at Duranguit Reef, Laing Island (4deg 9'S; 144deg 53'E; 3M Depth), Bismark ...


10. Quelccaya Summit (Peru) Ice Core from WDC for Paleoclimatology [EARTH_LAND_NGDC_PALEOCL_QUELCCA]
This data set is derived from the Quelccaya Summit Ice Core by Drs. Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson of The Ohio State University. The record was updated in May 1992 to extend the data period ...


11. Huon Terrace VIIa1, Papua New Guinea Fossil and Living Coral Isotope (delta 18O) Data for 130,000 years BP to Present [G2104]   PARENT DIF
Results of analysis of a core collected from a 'fossil' massive Porites coral exposed in the raised reefs of the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. The coral grew about 118-128 ka BP, during the Last ...


12. Huon Terrace VIIa2, Papua New Guinea Fossil and Living Coral Isotope (delta 18O) Data for 130,000 years BP to Present [G2105]   PARENT DIF
Results of analysis of a core collected from a 'fossil' massive Porites coral exposed in the raised reefs of the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. The coral grew about 118-128 ka BP, during the Last ...


13. Huon Terrace VIIa3, Papua New Guinea Fossil and Living Coral Isotope (delta 18O) Data for 130,000 years BP to Present [G2106]   PARENT DIF
Results of analysis of a core collected from a 'fossil' massive Porites coral exposed in the raised reefs of the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. The coral grew about 118-128 ka BP, during the ...


14. Kiritimati Isotope (delta 13C, delta 18O, Sr/Ca) Data for 1938 to 1993 [G2069]
The following is excerpted from Evans et al., J.Geophys. Res., in review, 1998 (please see this paper for references made in this readme file): Proxy climate data derived from the isotopic composition ...


15. Laing Island, Papua New Guinea Fossil and Living Coral Isotope (delta 18O) Data for 130,000 years BP to Present [G2109]   PARENT DIF
Results of analysis of a core collected from a living massive Porites coral on a reef immediately north of Laing Island, Papua New Guinea. The core was collected vertically down the axis of maximum ...


16. Laing Terrace, Papua New Guinea Fossil and Living Coral Isotope (delta 18O) Data for 130,000 years BP to Present [G2110]   PARENT DIF
Results of analysis of a core collected from a 'fossil' massive Porites coral exposed in the raised reefs around Laing Island, Papua New Guinea. The coral grew about 2.7 ka BP, when sea-level was ...


17. Madang Terrace, Papua New Guinea Fossil and Living Coral Isotope (delta 18O) Data for 130,000 years BP to Present [G2107]   PARENT DIF
Results of analysis of a core collected from a 'fossil' massive Porites coral exposed in the raised reefs around Tabat Island, Madang Lagoon, Papua New Guinea. The coral grew about 2.5 ka BP, when ...


18. Climate: Long-Range Investigation, Mapping, and Prediction (CLIMAP) 18,000 Years Before Present (18k bp) Sediment Data Files [FE00126]
The CLIMAP (Climate: Long-range Investigation, Mapping, and Prediction) Project was funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE) Program. ...


19. Calcium Carbonate Percent from Marine Sediments [EARTH_LAND_NGDC_PALEOCLIM_CARB1]
This data set contains calcium carbonate percentage data from marine sediment cores, plus C14 dates or age models as available, and NCDC's display software. The analyses were done for the CLIMAP ...


20. CLIMAP 18k bp Surface Configuration Data [FE01020]
The CLIMAP (Climate: Long-Range Investigation, Mapping, and Prediction) Project was funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE). The ...


21. Glacial Lake Hitchcock Varve Data During the Late Pleistocene from WDC/Paleoclimatology [NOAA_NGDC_PALEO_ELNINO_NE]
[Abstract from the online documentation] A glacial varve chronology from New England spanning the 4000-year period from 17,500 to 13,500 calendar years before present was analyzed for evidence of ...


22. Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) Oxygen Isotope Data, NOAA/NGDC, WDC-A Paleoclimatology [NGDC_WDCA_PALEO_GRIP_O18]
This data set consists of detailed oxygen isotope (del 18O) measurements from the 3029 m Summit Core in Greenland collected by the Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) members. The isotope measurements ...


23. Paleovegetation Proxy Data, Fossil Pollen from Lake Cores [G01110]
Paleoclimatic proxy data from paleovegetation sources, primarily fossil pollen from lake cores. Includes also climatic reconstructions.


24. Ancient Lake Level (Caspian Sea and Aral Sea) Paleoclimate Data [EARTH_LAND_NGDC_PALEO_LAKELEVEL]
The lake level dataset contains data on the reconstructed extent of the Aral and Caspian Seas during the last glacial maximum 18,000 YBP. The reconstructions were made by Olga Dennisenko (Department ...


25. Global Pollen Database, Paleoclimate Data [NOAA_NGDC_GLOBAL_POLLEN]
The Global Pollen Database currently includes data from Africa, the Americas, and northern Asia. This database continues to grow as new data are organized and made available by various regional data ...


26. Greenland Ice Sheet Project II (GISP II) Ice Core Oxygen Isotope Data, NOAA/NCDC/WDC-Paleoclimatology [NGDC_WDCA_PALEO_GISP2_D18O]
This data set contains the Greenland Ice Sheet Project II (GISP2) delta 18O (oxygen isotope) vs. depth as well as age at 2m intervals. NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCES WHEN USING THIS DATA!


27. Antarctic and Greenland Synchronization Data for the Last Glacial Period from WDC-A/Paleoclimatology [NOAA_NGDC_PALEOCLIMATE_SYNCHRO]
This data set consists of isotopic, carbon dioxide (CO2), and methane (CH4) data collected from the Byrd and Vostok ice cores (Antarctica) and the Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP). Data from the ...


28. Carbon-14 Calibration Data Set for the Last Deglaciation, WDC-A Paleoclimatology [NOAA_NGDC_PALEOCLIMATE_HUGHEN]
This data set contains raw carbon 14 (14C) dates with varve (calendar) age from the Cariaco Basin off the coast of Venezuela. The data also consists of a decadally sampled spline data set fitted to ...


29. European Pollen Database, Paleoclimate Data [NOAA_NGDC_EUROPE_POLLEN]
The European Pollen Database (EPD) currently includes pollen data from Europe, Northern Africa, Middle East, and Western Asia. All of the EPD data are available in Paradox 4.5 format. See: "http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/epd.html" ...


30. Foraminifer Census Counts and SST estimates from Marine Sediments of North Atlantic Ocean [EARTH_LAND_NGDC_PALEOCLIM_FORAM]
This directory contains foraminifer census counts and SST (Sea Surface Temperature) estimates derived from marine sediment cores from the north Atlantic Ocean. The data were provided to NGDC by Dr. ...


31. Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) Dielectric Profiling (DEP) Data, NOAA/NCDC, WDC Paleoclimatology [NGDC_WDCA_GRIP_DEP]
This data set contains dielectric profiling (DEP) data from the Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) ice core drilled at Summit, Greenland between 1990 and 1992. The data consists of depth (m) and sigma ...


32. Jamestown-Roanoke Climate Reconstructions from WDC-A/Paleoclimatology [NOAA_NGDC_PALEO_JAMESTOWN]
This data set consists of reconstructions of July Palmer Hydrologic Drought Index (PHDI) data for two southern Virginia Coastal and Piedmont and two northern and central North Carolina coastal climate ...


33. Methane data for the Byrd ice core from Blunier and Brook (2001) [Byrd_ice_core_methane]
A precise relative chronology for Greenland and West Antarctic paleotemperature is extended to 90,000 years ago, based on correlation of atmospheric methane records from the Greenland Ice Sheet Project ...


34. North American Pollen Database [EARTH_ATM_NGDC_PALEO_POLLEN1]
The COHMAP North American Pollen Database (NAPD) s available by FTP from World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology at NGDC in Boulder, Colorado USA. It covers pollen data that validates the COHMAP ...


35. Tree Ring Data from the International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB), NOAA/NCDC Paleoclimatology Program [EARTH_LAND_NGDC_PALEO_TREERINGS]   CHILD DIFs
The International Tree-Ring Data Bank is maintained by the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology. The Data Bank includes raw ring width or wood density measurements, ...


36. Bibliography & Inventory of Holocene Varved and Laminated Marine Sediments [G01244]
Bibliography and Inventory of Holocene Varved and Laminated Marine Sediments - locations of known high resolution paleoclimatic sediment records, plus bibliography of associated research.


37. Rock Varnish Slide Set [G01242]
Covers methodology of millennial-scale climate reconstructions using manganese-rich microlaminations in arid region rock coatings.


38. Tropical Ice Core Paleoclimatic Records, Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru [G01248]
Ice Core data from the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru, including annual ice accumulation, oxygen isotopes, and dust particles.


39. Ice Core Data: Accumulation, Dust Particles, Isotopes, Chemistry, and Gas Concentration Data from Polarand Alpine Regions Worldwide [G01001]
Ice Core data from Polar and Mountain regions, including annual ice accumulation, dust particles, stable isotopes, trapped gases, and ice chemistry.


40. Worldwide Values of Proxy Paleoclimate Indicators from Microfossils, Pollen, Cores, Tree Rings, andOthers [G01000]
General collection of paleoclimate proxy data including climate indicators from microfossils, pollen, ice cores, tree rings, etc.


41. Heinrich Event Slide Set [G01266]
By understanding past climate variability, scientists hope to understand the course of future changes in the earth's climate system. This slide set outlines past climate variability by reconstructing ...


42. Paleoceanographic Values of Carbonate Percent, Relative Sea Level, Paleo SST's, Paleocurrent and MonsoonConditions, and Climatic Sea Level Changes [G01109]
Paleoceanographic data, including special projects such as CLIMAP and SPECMAP, as well as oceanwide data sets such as carbonate percent and relative sea level. All data designed to interpret paleoclimatic ...


43. Tree Ring Slide Set [G01258]
Travel with scientists to the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, the Navajo National Monument in New Mexico, and the forests of Tasmania to study ancient chronicles of environmental change. Color ...


44. Values of Tree Ring Width and/or Wood Density Measurements Taken by Field Sampling and by LaboratoryAnalysis, Site Chronologies and Climate Reconstructs [G01002]
Tree ring width and/or wood density measurements are taken by field sampling and laboratory analysis. These tree growth measurements are used as a proxy for climate data for time intervals prior to ...


45. Global Relative Sea Level Histories [EARTH_LAND_NGDC_PALEO_SEALEVEL1]
The Relative Sea Level Database covers sea level data from the present time back to 14,000 years before the present. The authors compiled the database from numerous published sources in addition ...


46. Masthead Island Extension, Density, and Calcification Data for 1753 to 1985 [G2045]
Extension, Density, and Calcification data from 35 Porites coral cores covering the entire length of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Data set contains 35 individual core data sets plus time series ...


47. Urvina Bay, Galapagos Coral Radiocarbon (delta 14C) Data for 1956 to 1982 [G2076]
Urvina Bay coral radiocarbon (14C) timeseries. (90W, 0.5S, -) Coral radiocarbon (Delta-14C) on untreated, low-speed drilled samples. Precision is A?4 per mil as documented by an in-house homogenized ...


48. Greenland Ice Sheet Project II (GISP2) Ice Core Methane Data, NOAA/NCDC/WDC-Paleoclimatology [NGDC_WDCA_PALEO_GISP2_CH4]
This data set contains methane (CH4) concentration data derived from the Greenland Ice Sheet Project II (GISP2) ice core. The methane concentration was measured from trapped gases in in samples from ...


49. Barbados Sea Level and Th/U 14C Calibration [EARTH_LAND_NGDC_PALEOCLIM_BARB1]
Part of the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program dataset is the Barbados Sea Level and Th/U 14C Calibration. Barbados data are from Fairbanks (1989) and Bard et al. (1990) - the reference works below - ...


50. Bartolome Island, Galapagos Stable Oxygen Calibration Data [G2089]
Galapagos Coral Stable Oxygen Calibration Data. Sites: Bartolome Island: 0 deg, 17'S, 90 deg 33' W. Champion Island: 1 deg, 15'S, 90 deg, 05' W. Urvina Bay (Isabela Island): 0 deg, 23'S, 91 deg, ...


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