Various Paleoclimate Data Available

This is a list with descriptions of the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program datasets available at the anonymous FTP site at the World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology at the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). There are brief and detailed summaries of the data.

The Barbados sea level and Th/U 14C calibration.
Calcium carbonate percentages from marine sediment cores.
CLIMAP data
- CLIMAP 18K database
- CLIMAP 120K database
Data from Climate Since A.D. 1500
Coral data set
Detrital fluxes in the Southeast Indian Ocean
Elk Lake, Minnesota database
Fossil plankton stratigraphies database
Abstracts of NOAA funded proposals
GCM output
- CCM0 GCM output data set
- GISS GCM output data set
Historical data sets
- Historical weather database for Japan
- Switzerland climate indices
Ice core data
- Greenland Ice Sheet Project ice core data
- National Ice Core Laboratory inventory
- Quelccaya, Peru ice core data
- Vostok, Antarctica ice core data
- World Data Center-A for Glaciology ice core data
Orbital variations and insolation database
Lake level data
- Lake status records from Soviet Union and Mongolia
- Oxford Lake-Level Data Bank
Marine Core Curator's Database - This is also accessible for searching and downloading via a Mosaic-forms interface.
Paleoclimate Model Intercomparison Project (PMIP)
- AMIP SST and sea-ice data set
- Levitus SST climatology files
- PMIP newsletters
- Time dependent topography through the glacial cycle
- Global data set of soil particle size properties
North American Pollen Database
IAEA/WMO Global Network "Isotopes in Precipitation"
The Sahara in the Holocene
Relative Sea Level Database
World maps of site locations in HDF format
SPECMAP archives
- SPECMAP Archive #1 - various data
- SPECMAP Archive #2 - data from On the structure and origin of major glaciation cycles - Part 1
- SPECMAP Archive #3 - Devil's Hole calcite record
- SPECMAP Archive #4 - data from On the structure and origin of major glaciation cycles - Part 2
Geomagnetic polarity time scales
International Tree-ring Data Bank
Lamont Doherty carbon 14 data files
BRGM core descriptions
Calcium Carbonate Database
Continental margin (CONMAR) sediment data
JODC seafloor sediment descriptions
PETROS Igneous Petrology Database
Total sediment thickness data

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