A multiproxy database of western North American Holocene paleoclimate records
Cody C. Routson (Northern Arizona University)
Darrell S. Kaufman (Northern Arizona University)
Nicholas P. Mckay (Northern Arizona University)
Michael P. Erb (Northern Arizona University)
Stéphanie H. Arcusa (Northern Arizona University)
Kendrick J. Brown (University of British Columbia, Canadian Forest Service)
Matthew E. Kirby (California State University, Fullerton)
Jeremiah P. Marsicek (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Gerrit Schoups (TU Delft - Water Resources)
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Abstract
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 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12863843.v1 (Routson and McKay, 2020).
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