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Northern Hemisphere Extra-Tropics 2,000-year Decadal Temperature Reconstruction

SND-ID: ECDS 0085

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Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Bo Christiansen - Danish Meteorological Institute

Fredrik Charpentier Ljungquist - Stockholm University

Description

Multi-proxy temperature reconstruction for the extra-tropical Northern Hemisphere (90-30°N) during the last two millennia based on 30 palaeotemperature proxy records with annual to multi-decadal resolution. Proxy types include historical documentary records, seafloor sediment records, lake sediment records, speleothem records, ice-core records, varved thickness sediment records, tree-ring width and maximum latewood density records. The reconstruction is presented as decadal anomalies in degrees C relative to the 1961-1990 reference period and provided with quantitative error bars.

The dataset can be downloaded from:
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/contributions_by_author/ljungqvist2010/ljungqvist2010.txt

A graphical description of the dataset is given at:
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/loehle_v_fig1.png
Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Danish Meteorological Institute

Responsible department/unit

Danish Meteorological Institute
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Time period(s) investigated

1 – 1999

Geographic coverage
Topic and keywords

Research area

Natural Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Climatology / Meteorology / Atmosphere (INSPIRE topic categories)

Keywords

common sense climate index, air temperature reconstruction, climate indicators

Publications

Ljungqvist, F.C. 2010. A new reconstruction of temperature variability in the extra-tropical Northern Hemisphere during the last two millennia. Geografiska Annaler: Physical Geography, 92A: 339-351, doi:10.1111/j.1468-0459.2010.00399.x

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Published: 2019-10-08