cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25921/qgqh-r206
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Schneider-Mor et al. 2008 Southern Ocean ODP1093 660KYr Paleonutrient Data

description: Sediment cores from Ocean Drilling Program sites 1094 and 1093 hold the most extensive and most detailed records of carbon and nitrogen isotopes of diatom-bound organic matter in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean over the past 660 ka. These records were combined with summer sea surface temperatures and winter sea ice that were deduced from diatom transfer functions to reconstruct the nutrient regime at the northern and southern boundaries of the siliceous belt at latitudes 53°S and 50°S, respectively. The strong coupling between carbon and nitrogen isotope records at site 1093 suggests that the diatom productivity was influenced mainly by changes in nutrient availability. The anticorrelation between the carbon and nitrogen isotopes at site 1094 suggests that the diatom productivity was closely linked to global temperature changes, sea ice coverage, and dissolved CO2 concentration. A detailed comparison of the nitrogen isotope records between the two sites shows three time intervals that represent different nutrient regimes. The nutrients at site 1093, which is close to the Polar Front, were dominated by eddies and meanders that sustained relatively high productivity at times of stratification or reduced ventilation, whereas at site 1094 the nutrients were influenced by ventilation processes.
DOI: 10.25921/qpw8-aj12
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Wang et al. 2007 Botuverá Cave 90KYr Stable Isotope Data

description: A U-Th dated 90,000 year-long speleothem oxygen isotope record from southern Brazil anti-correlates remarkably with the cave calcite records from eastern China, but positively correlates with the speleothem record from northeastern Brazil, suggesting an interhemispheric anti-phasing of rainfall on both millennial and orbital timescales, likely related to displacement in the mean position of the intertropical convergence zone and associated asymmetry in Hadley circulation. The phase relationships among these records are consistent with the hypothesis that abrupt climate events during the last glacial period are triggered by oceanic circulation changes in the high latitudes and enhanced by tropical feedbacks.
description: DESCRIPTION:  
90 KYr speleothem stable isotope record from stalagmite BTV3A, 
Botuverá Cave, southern Brazil. BTV3A is 24cm long, dated by 
16 U-Th samples, and grew continuously for the last 90kyr 
with no detectable hiatuses.
DOI: 10.25921/qsde-nx94
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Berkelhammer et al. 2010 Dandak Cave, India Oxygen Isotope Data

description: The instrumental record of Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) precipitation displays two complete manifestations of an inferred multidecadal cycle. Hitherto, no precipitation-sensitive proxy record from the Indian subcontinent has had the necessary resolution and length to adequately assess whether this observed feature is an inherent aspect of the ISM system on longer timescales. Here we present compelling evidence for persistence of this cycle using a millennial length (AD 600-1550) and sub-annually resolved speleothem oxygen isotope record (d18O) from Dandak Cave in east-central India. The record displays a high degree of correlation with a speleothem-based Asian monsoon reconstruction from Wanxiang Cave in north-central China on annual to decadal timescales showing the regional significance of these findings. The observed period in our monsoon reconstruction is similar to that associated with the Gleissberg solar cycle and multidecadal sea surface temperature variability in the north Atlantic (AMO), both of which are often cited as the prominent pacemakers of ISM variability on multidecadal timescales. We document transient coherence between ISM precipitation amount and solar variability that persists exclusively in the century prior to and during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (nominally, AD 950-1300). The non-stationary nature of the SFV-monsoon relationship presented here may be evidence of the time-varying influence of tropical ocean-atmosphere dynamics on the solar-monsoon link; however, it is not possible to show with significance that this period of coherence is anything more than an artifact of two timeseries with similar spectra.  We therefore, are inclined to interpret our record as evidence of a minimal role of solar variability in driving persistent multidecadal variability of the ISM. Multidecadal SST variability in the North Atlantic remains as the likely alternative driver for persistence of this cycle. Regardless of the causative mechanism(s), the amplitude and regional signature of the observed cycle in ISM precipitation highlight its societal importance with respect to forecasting ISM precipitation on multidecadal timescales.
DOI: 10.25921/qnmd-sf73
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Mamet - NFOR, Wapusk National Park, Manitoba - LALA - ITRDB CANA276

description: Tree ring data from the International Tree Ring Data Bank and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology archives.  Most data sets include raw treering measurements (most are annual ring width, with some collections of earlywood or latewood width or wood density), plus chronologies (standardized growth indices for a site compiled from multiple treering samples). Reconstructions of climate variables are included with some of these data sets.  Each data type is stored in a separate data file; the data type is coded into the file name. For details please see: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/treeinfo.htmll
description: NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-01-27. NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-02-04.
DOI: 10.25921/qxde-vq46
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Fan - Hengduan Mountains 13YE_T_r - TSDU - ITRDB CHIN040

description: Past global climate changes had strong regional expression. To elucidate their spatio-temporal pattern, we reconstructed past temperatures for seven continental-scale regions during the past one to two millennia. The most coherent feature in nearly all of the regional temperature reconstructions is a long-term cooling trend, which ended late in the nineteenth century. At multi-decadal to centennial scales, temperature variability shows distinctly different regional patterns, with more similarity within each hemisphere than between them. There were no globally synchronous multi-decadal warm or cold intervals that define a worldwide Medieval Warm Period or Little Ice Age, but all reconstructions show generally cold conditions between ad 1580 and 1880, punctuated in some regions by warm decades during the eighteenth century. The transition to these colder conditions occurred earlier in the Arctic, Europe and Asia than in North America or the Southern Hemisphere regions. Recent warming reversed the long-term cooling; during the period ad 1971-2000, the area-weighted average reconstructed temperature was higher than any other time in nearly 1,400 years.
description: Purpose of Collection: 
# Climatology - temperature analyses
# 
#  NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-04-08.
DOI: 10.25921/qnyc-ex43
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Wiles - Lemon Creek - TSME - ITRDB AK131

description: Recent observations of divergence between tree growth at high-latitude sites and temperature, as well as the decline of yellow cedar [Callitropsis nootkatensis (D. Don) Oerst. ex D.P. Little] in southeast Alaska due to warming, emphasize a need to investigate nonstationary climate response of Alaskan coastal forests to warming in other tree species.Comparison of annual tree growth in mountain hemlock [Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.)Carriere] to mean monthly temperature and precipitation data from Sitka, Alaska, from A.D. 1830s to 1990s along an elevational transect reveals nonstationarity in tree growth response to climate that suggests an ongoing biome shift.  We observe a marked weakening in the positive relationship between annual growth and warmer growth season temperatures at low-elevation hemlock sites, and a concurrent increase in growth and sensitivity at higher elevations coupled with increased correlation between growth and April precipitation at all sites along our transects. As previously observed with yellow cedar, the mechanism of the hemlock biome shift may be due to an increased susceptibility of roots to damage from late frosts resulting from earlier seasonal loss of protective snowpack.
description:  NOAA Template Chronology file added 2018-12-20. NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-02-08.
DOI: 10.25921/q7hq-sd04
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Cook - Altai AT2 - LASI - ITRDB RUSS226

description: Past global climate changes had strong regional expression. To elucidate their spatio-temporal pattern, we reconstructed past temperatures for seven continental-scale regions during the past one to two millennia. The most coherent feature in nearly all of the regional temperature reconstructions is a long-term cooling trend, which ended late in the nineteenth century. At multi-decadal to centennial scales, temperature variability shows distinctly different regional patterns, with more similarity within each hemisphere than between them. There were no globally synchronous multi-decadal warm or cold intervals that define a worldwide Medieval Warm Period or Little Ice Age, but all reconstructions show generally cold conditions between ad 1580 and 1880, punctuated in some regions by warm decades during the eighteenth century. The transition to these colder conditions occurred earlier in the Arctic, Europe and Asia than in North America or the Southern Hemisphere regions. Recent warming reversed the long-term cooling; during the period ad 1971-2000, the area-weighted average reconstructed temperature was higher than any other time in nearly 1,400 years.
description: Purpose of Collection: 
# Climatology - temperature analyses NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-04-08. July 2024: Elevation added by WDS-Paleo using get_elev_point() from the elevatr R package with the AWS Terrain Tiles (aws) and WGS 84 reference frame.
DOI: 10.25921/qrht-p024
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Youngblut - Grassy Mountain - LALY - ITRDB CANA408

description: Tree ring data from the International Tree Ring Data Bank and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology archives.  Most data sets include raw treering measurements (most are annual ring width, with some collections of earlywood or latewood width or wood density), plus chronologies (standardized growth indices for a site compiled from multiple treering samples). Reconstructions of climate variables are included with some of these data sets.  Each data type is stored in a separate data file; the data type is coded into the file name. For details please see: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/treeinfo.htmll
description: NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-02-04.
DOI: 10.25921/qyrp-x464
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Solomina - Koeliu - PCSH - ITRDB KYRG012

description: Past global climate changes had strong regional expression. To elucidate their spatio-temporal pattern, we reconstructed past temperatures for seven continental-scale regions during the past one to two millennia. The most coherent feature in nearly all of the regional temperature reconstructions is a long-term cooling trend, which ended late in the nineteenth century. At multi-decadal to centennial scales, temperature variability shows distinctly different regional patterns, with more similarity within each hemisphere than between them. There were no globally synchronous multi-decadal warm or cold intervals that define a worldwide Medieval Warm Period or Little Ice Age, but all reconstructions show generally cold conditions between ad 1580 and 1880, punctuated in some regions by warm decades during the eighteenth century. The transition to these colder conditions occurred earlier in the Arctic, Europe and Asia than in North America or the Southern Hemisphere regions. Recent warming reversed the long-term cooling; during the period ad 1971-2000, the area-weighted average reconstructed temperature was higher than any other time in nearly 1,400 years.
description: Purpose of Collection: 
# Climatology - temperature analyses NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-04-08.
DOI: 10.25921/qpt3-m390
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Anchukaitis - Firth River 1236 - PCGL - ITRDB AK132

description: Northwestern North America has one of the highest rates of recent temperature increase in the world, but the putative "divergence problem" in dendroclimatology potentially limits the ability of tree-ring proxy data at high latitudes to provide long-term context for current anthropogenic change. Here, summer temperatures are reconstructed from a Picea glauca maximum latewood density (MXD) chronology that shows a stable relationship to regional temperatures and spans most of the last millennium at the Firth River in northeastern Alaska. The warmest epoch in the last nine centuries is estimated to have occurred during the late twentieth century, with average temperatures over the last 30 yr of the reconstruction developed for this study [1973-2002 in the Common Era (CE)] approximately 1.3° ± 0.4°C warmer than the long-term preindustrial mean (1100-1850 CE), a change associated with rapid increases in greenhouse gases. Prior to the late twentieth century, multidecadal temperature fluctuations covary broadly with changes in natural radiative forcing. The findings presented here emphasize that tree-ring proxies can provide reliable indicators of temperature variability even in a rapidly warming climate.
description: Firth River 1236, Alaska - ak132
# Additional Site Information
# Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Rosanne D. D'Arrigo, David Frank, Laia Andreu-Hayles, Brendan M. Buckley
# 
# Purpose of Collection:
# Climatology - temperature analyses
# 
# 
# Cores Stored at:
# Original wood samples archived at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-02-08.
DOI: 10.25921/qawq-k189
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Voelker - Southeastern Missouri - QUCO - ITRDB MO052

description: Despite experimental evidence showing that elevated CO2 levels increase growth in most plants, the isolation of a signal consistent with anthropogenically caused increases in atmospheric CO2 from the dendrochronological record has shown mixed results. Our extensive sets of tree ring data from the Ozark Mountains in Missouri showed that since 1850, Quercus velutina Lam., Quercus coccinea Muench., and Pinus echinata Mill. trees increased in stem growth coincidently with increases in atmospheric CO2. Those long-term increases in radial growth appear unrelated to historical disturbance levels for the region, to long-term changes in relevant climatic variables, or to productivity of sites sampled for the purpose of creating a time sequence of tree ring growth. It is still unclear what the potential role of nitrogen deposition might have been for tree growth. We cross-dated a large number of increment cores and aligned the ring width data by pith date for accurate age constant assessments of growth over the past 150 years. Thus, we circumvented changes in growth trend associated with differences in physiological functioning during development, as well as the need for statistical detrending that removes an unknown degree of long-term environmental signal, the so called segment length curse that applies to standard dendrochronological investigations. When the positive relationship between CO2 and ring width was examined at different ages, an ontogenetic decline in the rate of growth stimulation was found. Specifically, both the pooled Quercus spp. and P. echinata were characterized by a negative exponential pattern of response over a developmental sequence through age 50. Further knowledge of an intrinsic decline in CO2 sensitivity with tree age or size such as this may be important for increased accuracy in estimating terrestrial carbon stocks across successional landscapes.
description: Cores Stored at:
# Oregon State University
# 
# Data are from randomly located plots centered on the Current River 
# watershed. The second-growth stands sampled were dominated by black 
# oak, scarlet oak and shortleaf pine. NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-02-08.

Publication DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(2006)076[0549:HCGEDW]2.0.CO;2
DOI: 10.25921/qx69-ba16
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Borgaonkar - Jangla - CDDE - ITRDB INDI024

description: Past global climate changes had strong regional expression. To elucidate their spatio-temporal pattern, we reconstructed past temperatures for seven continental-scale regions during the past one to two millennia. The most coherent feature in nearly all of the regional temperature reconstructions is a long-term cooling trend, which ended late in the nineteenth century. At multi-decadal to centennial scales, temperature variability shows distinctly different regional patterns, with more similarity within each hemisphere than between them. There were no globally synchronous multi-decadal warm or cold intervals that define a worldwide Medieval Warm Period or Little Ice Age, but all reconstructions show generally cold conditions between ad 1580 and 1880, punctuated in some regions by warm decades during the eighteenth century. The transition to these colder conditions occurred earlier in the Arctic, Europe and Asia than in North America or the Southern Hemisphere regions. Recent warming reversed the long-term cooling; during the period ad 1971-2000, the area-weighted average reconstructed temperature was higher than any other time in nearly 1,400 years.
description: Purpose of Collection: 
# Climatology - temperature analyses NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-04-08.
DOI: 10.25921/q6gd-9641
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Cook - Gohar Abad Diamer - PIGE - ITRDB PAKI026

description: Water wars are a prospect in coming years as nations struggle with the effects of climate change, growing water demand, and declining resources. The Indus River supplies water to the world's largest contiguous irrigation system generating 90% of the food production in Pakistan as well as 13 gigawatts of hydroelectricity. Because any gap between water supply and demand has major and far-reaching ramifications, an understanding of natural flow variability is vital - especially when only 47 years of instrumental record is available. A network of tree-ring sites from the Upper Indus Basin (UIB) was used to reconstruct river discharge levels covering the period AD 1452-2008. Novel methods tree-ring detrending based on the 'signal free' method and estimation of reconstruction uncertainty based on the 'maximum entropy bootstrap' are used. This 557-year record displays strong inter-decadal fluctuations that could not have been deduced from the short gauged record. Recent discharge levels are high but not statistically unprecedented and are likely to be associated with increased meltwater from unusually heavy prior winter snowfall. A period of prolonged below-average discharge is indicated during AD 1572-1683. This unprecedented low-flow period may have been a time of persistently below-average winter snowfall and provides a warning for future water resource planning. Our reconstruction thus helps fill the hydrological information vacuum for modeling the Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalayan region and is useful for planning future development of UIB water resources in an effort to close Pakistan's "water gap". Finally, the river discharge reconstruction provides the basis for comparing past, present, and future hydrologic changes, which will be crucial for detection and attribution of hydroclimate change in the Upper Indus Basin.
description: Purpose of Collection: 
# Climatology - precipitation NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-04-08.
DOI: 10.25921/q7ew-2c79
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Great Barrier Reef 5000 Year Mollusc Amino Acid Racemization Data

description: Radiocarbon-calibrated amino acid racemization ages of 250 individually dated Tellina shells from two sediment cores are used to quantify molluscan time averaging with increasing burial depth in the shallow-water carbonate lagoon of Rib Reef, central Great Barrier Reef, Australia. The top 20 cm of sediment contain a distinct, essentially modern assemblage with a median age of only 5 yr. Sediment between 20 and 125 cm are age-homogeneous and significantly older than the surface sediment (median age 189 yr). Shell age distributions within layers indicate that the top 125 cm of lagoonal sediment is thoroughly mixed on a subcentennial scale. Shell size is an important correlate of shell half-life and an important determinant of the inferred age of sedimentary layers. These results illustrate the importance of bioturbation in these environments, indicate that age estimates in this depositional setting are sensitive to specimen choice, and document a size-dependent bias in death assemblage formation.
description: D/L aspartic acid, glutamic acid, and serine (Amino Acid Racemization [AAR]) in Tellina casta from sediment cores from Rib Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
DOI: 10.25921/qap9-wb72
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Büntgen - Lötschental 3 - LADE - ITRDB SWIT293

description: Tree ring data from the International Tree Ring Data Bank and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology archives.  Most data sets include raw treering measurements (most are annual ring width, with some collections of earlywood or latewood width or wood density), plus chronologies (standardized growth indices for a site compiled from multiple treering samples). Reconstructions of climate variables are included with some of these data sets.  Each data type is stored in a separate data file; the data type is coded into the file name. For details please see: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/treeinfo.htmll
description: Collection purpose: 
# # dendroclimatology
# # 
# # 
# # Cores are stored at: 
# # WSL
# # 
# # 
# # Notes: 
# # Formerly Loetschup
# # 
# # References:
# # Buntgen et al: (2006) Journal of Climate; (2006) TRACE; (2006) Trees; 
# # (2005) Climate Dynamics; (2005) TRACE; (2008) GCB; (2009) New Phytologist; 
# # Esper et al (2007) PRCB NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-02-05.
DOI: 10.25921/qw09-7997
title: NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Neuwirth - Nordrhein-Westfalen/Eifel dre06 - QUPE - ITRDB GERM178

description: Spatiotemporal variations in tree growth are induced by varying environmental conditions. Different methods like variants of the principal component analysis and the hierarchical cluster analysis are commonly applied in dendroecology to separate subsets of growth patterns within large tree-ring datasets. To seek for methodological differences in classification techniques and their specific characteristics, we compared three standard methods using a homogeneous oak (Quercus spp.) network from temperate forests in Central-West Germany. Classifications of the original dataset consisting of 46 oak ring-width sites, carried out with the varimax rotated principle component analysis, Ward's method and the average linkage method, reveal differences in the classification of approximately 20% of the sites. Analyses with modified datasets are calculated to evaluate effects of dataset extension, different time periods and different tree-ring detrendings. The application of the principal component analysis generally leads to the most stable site classifications, whereas the most sensitive response to changes in the dataset is obtained by Ward's method. The average linkage method separates single sites in the classification and thus emphasises outliers within the tree-ring network.
description: Purpose of Collection:
# climate/growth relationship NOAA Template Raw Measurements file added 2019-02-05.