Identification

Title

Late Holocene Climatic and Environmental Change Inferred from Arctic Lake Sediments

Alternative title(s)

106.266

Abstract

This Dataset consists of data which accompanies fourteen papers in a special issue of the Journal of Paleolimnology. These papers report new records of Holocene climate and environmental change from Arctic lakes, with emphasis on the last 2000 years. The study sites span the high latitudes of North America and extend into northwestern Europe. The studies rely on multiple proxy indicators to reconstruct past climate, including: varve thicknesses, chironomid, diatom, and pollen assemblages, biogenic-silica and organic-matter content, oxygen-isotope ratios in diatoms, and the frequency of lake-ice-rafted aggregates. These proxies primarily document changes in past summer temperatures, the main control on physical and biological processes in lakes at high latitudes. The records will be integrated into a larger network of paleoclimate sites to investigate the spatial and temporal variability of climate change and to compare the paleoclimate inferences with the output of general circulation models. The project of which these data are a part contributes to understanding the Arctic system by placing 20th century climatic change into a longer-term context of inter-decadal climatic variability spanning the last 2000 years.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data.eol.ucar.edu//dataset/106.266

protocol: https

name: Late Holocene Climatic and Environmental Change Inferred from Arctic Lake Sediments homepage

description: Dataset homepage

Unique resource identifier

code

106.266

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Keyword set

keyword value

Field Surveys

Keyword set

keyword value

Models/Analyses

Ecology

Arctic

Terrestrial Ecosystems

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-180.00000

East bounding longitude

180.00000

North bounding latitude

90.00000

South bounding latitude

45.00000

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1000-01-01T01:01:01Z

End position

2008-12-31T23:59:59Z

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2009-05-13T15:15:01Z

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

none

Limitations on public access

none

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

datahelp@eol.ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

Northern Arizona University

full postal address

Flagstaff

USA

telephone number

928-523-7192

email address

darrell.kaufman@nau.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

Northern Arizona University

full postal address

Flagstaff

USA

telephone number

928-523-7192

email address

darrell.kaufman@nau.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

datahelp@eol.ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-02-07T22:48:32Z

Metadata language