The SPECIAL EPD Database: an expanded resource to document changes in vegetation and climate from pollen records from Europe, the Middle East and western Eurasia Description: Past changes in vegetation…Read More >
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Team member highlight – WCRP/GCOS International Data Prize 2020
The WCRP/GCOS International Data Prize is awarded annually to an early- to mid-career researcher for their outstanding contribution to the Earth system science community, through achievements in data product generation, data…Read More >
The impact of methodological decisions on climate reconstructions using WA-PLS. By Mark Turner
Finally… long in the making, my “method” paper is out in Quaternary Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.44 today. It could not have been completed without a great deal of help from my co-authors…Read More >
The China Plant Trait Database Description: Plant functional traits provide information about adaptations to climate and environmental conditions, and can be used to explore the existence of alternative plant strategies…Read More >
Modern pollen data for climate reconstructions, version 1 (SMPDS) Description: The dataset contains percentage counts for the 247 most important European pollen taxa from individual modern samples from Europe…Read More >
EMBSeCBIO modern pollen biomisation Description: The data set contains metadata describing modern pollen samples for the Eastern Mediterranean-Black Sea-Caspian-Corridor region and biome reconstructions made using these data. Observed vegetation…Read More >
SISAL (Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis Working Group) database Description: Stable isotope records from speleothems provide information on past climate changes, most particularly information that can be used to reconstruct…Read More >
PMIP2 diagnostic for mid-Holocene precipitation over northern Africa Description: This dataset provides the latitudinal distribution of biomes (reconstructed at individual pollen sites) in northern Africa today and during the…Read More >