A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

• DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2017.88
• Publication Date: 2017-07-11T13:15:43Z
• Authors: Julien Emile-Geay; Nicholas P. McKay; Darrell S. Kaufman; Lucien von Gunten; Jianghao Wang; Kevin J. Anchukaitis; Nerilie J. Abram; Jason A. Addison; Mark A.J. Curran; Michael N. Evans; Benjamin J. Henley; Zhixin Hao; Belen Martrat; Helen V. McGregor; Raphael Neukom; Gregory T. Pederson; Barbara Stenni; Kaustubh Thirumalai; Johannes P. Werner; Chenxi Xu; Dmitry V. Divine; Bronwyn C. Dixon; Joelle Gergis; Ignacio A. Mundo; Takeshi Nakatsuka; Steven J. Phipps; Cody C. Routson; Eric J. Steig; Jessica E. Tierney; Jonathan J. Tyler; Kathryn J. Allen; Nancy A.N. Bertler; Jesper Björklund; Brian M. Chase; Min-Te Chen; Ed Cook; Rixt de Jong; Kristine L. DeLong; Daniel A. Dixon; Alexey A. Ekaykin; Vasile Ersek; Helena L. Filipsson; Pierre Francus; Mandy B. Freund; Massimo Frezzotti; Narayan P. Gaire; Konrad Gajewski; Quansheng Ge; Hugues Goosse; Anastasia Gornost...; Martin Grosjean; Kazuho Horiuchi; Anne Hormes; Katrine Husum; Elisabeth Isaksson; Selvaraj Kandasamy; Kenji Kawamura; K. Halimeda Kilbo...; Nalan Koç; Guillaume Leduc; Hans W. Linderholm; Andrew M. Lorrey; Vladimir Mikhalenko; P. Graham Mortyn; Hideaki Motoyama; Andrew D. Moy; Robert Mulvaney; Philipp M. Munz; David J. Nash; Hans Oerter; Thomas Opel; Anais J. Orsi; Dmitriy V. Ovchin...; Trevor J. Porter; Heidi A. Roop; Casey Saenger; Masaki Sano; David Sauchyn; Krystyna M. Saunders; Marit-Solveig Sei...; Mirko Severi; Xuemei Shao; Marie-Alexandrine...; Michael Sigl; Kate Sinclair; Scott St. George; Jeannine-Marie St...; Meloth Thamban; Udya Kuwar Thapa; Elizabeth R. Thomas; Chris Turney; Ryu Uemura; Andre E. Viau; Diana O. Vladimirova; Eugene R. Wahl; James W.C. White; Zicheng Yu; Jens Zinke
• Keywords: Proxy (statistics); Temperature record

Abstract Reproducible climate reconstructions of the Common Era (1 CE to present) are key placing industrial-era warming into context natural climatic variability. Here we present a community-sourced database temperature-sensitive proxy records from PAGES2k initiative. The gathers 692 648 locations, including all continental regions and major ocean basins. trees, ice, sediment, corals, speleothems, documentary evidence, other archives. They range in length 50 2000 years, with median 547 while temporal resolution ranges biweekly centennial. Nearly half time series significantly correlated HadCRUT4.2 surface temperature over period 1850–2014. Global composites show remarkable degree coherence between high- low-resolution archives, broadly similar patterns across archive types, terrestrial versus marine screening criteria. is suited investigations global regional variability Era, shared Linked Paleo Data (LiPD) format, serializations Matlab, R Python.