A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

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 Gornostaeva; Martin Grosjean; Kazuho Horiuchi; Anne Hormes; Katrine Husum; Elisabeth Isaksson; Selvaraj Kandasamy; Kenji Kawamura; K. Halimeda Kilbourne; 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. Ovchinnikov; Trevor J. Porter; Heidi A. Roop; Casey Saenger; Masaki Sano; David Sauchyn; Krystyna M. Saunders; Marit Solveig Seidenkrantz; Mirko Severi; Xuemei Shao; Marie Alexandrine Sicre; Michael Sigl; Kate Sinclair; Scott St George; Jeannine Marie St Jacques; 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

doi:10.1038/sdata.2017.88

A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

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 XuDmitry 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 Gornostaeva, Martin Grosjean, Kazuho Horiuchi, Anne Hormes, Katrine Husum, Elisabeth Isaksson, Selvaraj Kandasamy, Kenji Kawamura, K. Halimeda Kilbourne, 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. Ovchinnikov, Trevor J. Porter, Heidi A. Roop, Casey Saenger, Masaki Sano, David Sauchyn, Krystyna M. Saunders, Marit Solveig Seidenkrantz, Mirko Severi, Xuemei Shao, Marie Alexandrine Sicre, Michael Sigl, Kate Sinclair, Scott St George, Jeannine Marie St Jacques, 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

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

Original language	English (US)
Article number	170088
Journal	Scientific Data
Volume	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.88
State	Published - Jul 11 2017

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Emile-Geay, J., McKay, N. P., Kaufman, D. S., Von Gunten, L., Wang, J., Anchukaitis, K. J., Abram, N. J., Addison, J. A., Curran, M. A. J., Evans, M. N., Henley, B. J., Hao, Z., Martrat, B., McGregor, H. V., Neukom, R., Pederson, G. T., Stenni, B., Thirumalai, K., Werner, J. P., ... Zinke, J. (2017). A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era. Scientific Data, 4, Article 170088. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.88

Emile-Geay, J, McKay, NP, Kaufman, DS, Von Gunten, L, Wang, J, Anchukaitis, KJ, Abram, NJ, Addison, JA, Curran, MAJ, Evans, MN, Henley, BJ, Hao, Z, Martrat, B, McGregor, HV, Neukom, R, Pederson, GT, Stenni, B, Thirumalai, K, Werner, JP, Xu, C, Divine, DV, Dixon, BC, Gergis, J, Mundo, IA, Nakatsuka, T, Phipps, SJ, Routson, CC, Steig, EJ, Tierney, JE, Tyler, JJ, Allen, KJ, Bertler, NAN, Björklund, J, Chase, BM, Chen, MT, Cook, E, De Jong, R, DeLong, KL, Dixon, DA, Ekaykin, AA, Ersek, V, Filipsson, HL, Francus, P, Freund, MB, Frezzotti, M, Gaire, NP, Gajewski, K, Ge, Q, Goosse, H, Gornostaeva, A, Grosjean, M, Horiuchi, K, Hormes, A, Husum, K, Isaksson, E, Kandasamy, S, Kawamura, K, Kilbourne, KH, Koç, N, Leduc, G, Linderholm, HW, Lorrey, AM, Mikhalenko, V, Mortyn, PG, Motoyama, H, Moy, AD, Mulvaney, R, Munz, PM, Nash, DJ, Oerter, H, Opel, T, Orsi, AJ, Ovchinnikov, DV, Porter, TJ, Roop, HA, Saenger, C, Sano, M, Sauchyn, D, Saunders, KM, Seidenkrantz, MS, Severi, M, Shao, X, Sicre, MA, Sigl, M, Sinclair, K, St George, S, St Jacques, JM, Thamban, M, Thapa, UK, Thomas, ER, Turney, C, Uemura, R, Viau, AE, Vladimirova, DO, Wahl, ER, White, JWC, Yu, Z & Zinke, J 2017, 'A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era', Scientific Data, vol. 4, 170088. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.88

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