A Multiproxy Database of Western North American Holocene Paleoclimate Records

Authors

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, Canadian Forest Service
Matthew E. Kirby, California State University, Fullerton
Jeremiah P. Marsicek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
R. Scott Anderson, Northern Arizona University
Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Universidad de Granada
Jessica R. Rodysill, United States Geological Survey
Matthew S. Lachniet, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Sherilyn C. Fritz, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Joseph R. Bennett, Carleton University
Michelle F. Goman, Sonoma State University
Sarah E. Metcalfe, University of Nottingham
Jennifer M. Galloway, Geological Survey of Canada
Gerrit Schoups, Delft University of Technology
David B. Wahl, United States Geological Survey
Jesse L. Morris, The University of Utah
Francisca Staines-Urías, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Andria Dawson, Mount Royal University
Bryan N. Shuman, University of Wyoming
Daniel G. Gavin, University of Oregon
Jeffrey S. Munroe, Middlebury College
Brian F. Cumming, Queen's University, Kingston

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-19-2021

Publication Title

Earth System Science Data

Volume

13

Issue

4

First page number:

1613

Last page number:

1632

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).

Disciplines

Paleontology

File Format

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File Size

2564 KB

Language

English

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Repository Citation

Routson, C., Kaufman, D., Mckay, N., Erb, M., Arcusa, S., Brown, K., Kirby, M., Marsicek, J., Anderson, R., Jiménez-Moreno, G., Rodysill, J., Lachniet, M., Fritz, S., Bennett, J., Goman, M., Metcalfe, S., Galloway, J., Schoups, G., Wahl, D., Morris, J., Staines-Urías, F., Dawson, A., Shuman, B., Gavin, D., Munroe, J., Cumming, B. (2021). A Multiproxy Database of Western North American Holocene Paleoclimate Records. Earth System Science Data, 13(4), 1613-1632.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1613-2021