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Software for paleoclimate applications


This features links to software applicable to paleoclimate research ranging from data analysis programs to global circulation models (GCMs).

Data analysis

Modeling


Data analysis

This is software for the analysis (or perhaps mangling) of various types of data. Examples would be time series analysis software, software to calculate paleoclimate parameters, etc.

ADE-4 package
The Analysis of Environmental Data software package is a multivariate analysis package for environmental data that runs on various Mac platforms.

[http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/ADE-4/]

ANALOG
This is a program for estimating paleoclimatic parameters using the method of modern analogs. It's available as part of the Global Change Research Program at the USGS.

[http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/pub/tools/analog/doc/analog.html]

Multiple-Taper Spectral Analysis
This is a simple set of subroutines written in C for multiple taper spectral analysis. The multitaper approach provides an optimal spectrum estimate by minimizing spectral leakage while reducing the variance of the estimate by averaging orthogonal eigenspectrum estimates. There's a paper at the site explaining all this in detail.

[http://love.geology.yale.edu/~lees/mtm/]

SSAToolkit
The Singular Spectrum Analysis Toolkit is a set of programs that perform detailed spectral analyses and decompositions on an input time series. It requires the Tcl/Tk tookit software and is written in both Fortran and C. It allows spectral analysis to be performed using the Maximum Entropy, Multi-Taper, and Singular Spectrum Analysis Methods in addition to the traditional methods.

[http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/tcd/ssa/]

SVD
These are codes for frequency domain SVD spatiotemporal analysis developed by Michael Mann and Jeffrey Park. See the README file for further details.

[ftp://love.geology.yale.edu/pub/SVD/]


Modeling

This is the section for modeling software, i.e. anything from 1-D energy balance models to full-blown GCMs and anything in between.
CCM2
This is the NCAR Community Climate Model, a full-blown general circulation model (GCM) with all the bells and whistles. If you've got a supercomputer you might even be able to run it faster than the real climate proceeds.

[http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cms/ccm.html]

Zephyr 2-level atmospheric GCM
As the title suggests, this is a two-level atmospheric GCM for which the documentation is a bit sparse.

[ftp://pong.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/www_ftp/zephyr/]


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