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Accessing Ice Core Data at the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program

Learn how to access and use ice core data from the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program. Explore the available data sets, search options, and other resources on their website.

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Accessing Ice Core Data at the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program

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  1. Accessing Ice Core Data at the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program Carrie Morrill NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, CO P. Brown J. Wellington L. Thompson D. Hodell Teaching Climate Change with Ice Core Data 2008 Workshop Penn State University, State College PA

  2. Overview L. Thompson • About the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program • Ways to search the data archive • Brief summary of available ice core data • Other resources available at our website

  3. About NOAA Paleoclimatology • NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center is the world's largest archive of climate and paleoclimate data. • The Paleoclimatology Branch operates the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, which is one of 52 World Data Centers that house a wide range of solar, geophysical, environmental, and human dimensions data, and the only World Data Center devoted to paleoclimatic data. NCDC - Asheville Paleo Branch - Boulder

  4. About NOAA Paleoclimatology • We follow standardized guidelines for data archive and distribution developed by the International Council for Scientific Unions (ICSU), supporting the ICSU goal to strengthen international science for the benefit of society, and making all data freely available without restriction. • We archive information so that it can be used by paleoclimate experts, scientists from other fields, resource managers and decision-makers, students, educators, and interested citizens -- in short, by anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of long-term variations in climate and environment.

  5. National Climatic Data Center, Paleoclimatology Branch home page http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html

  6. Ice Core main page http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore.html

  7. Please cite data contributors http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/citation.html

  8. Ice Core Gateway http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore/current.html

  9. Ice Core Gateway http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore/icecore-varlist.html

  10. Search with pull-down menus http://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov/pls/paleo/fm_createpages.icecore

  11. List of data sets http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/indexice.html Click to sort

  12. List of data sets http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/indexice.html

  13. Free-text search http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oai/simp-search.jsp quel*

  14. Free-text search http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oai/simp-search.jsp

  15. Free-text search http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oai/simp-search.jsp

  16. Search by author http://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov/pls/paleo/contribseries.search

  17. Map search *available soon*

  18. Overview L. Thompson • About the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program • Ways to search the data archive • Brief summary of available ice core data • Other resources available at our website

  19. Map of ice core locations *available soon*

  20. Types of measurements as of June 1, 2008

  21. Typical data file EPICA Dome C Ice Cores Deuterium Data ------------------------------------------------------------------ World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder ------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTE: PLEASE CITE CONTRIBUTORS WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!! NAME OF DATA SET: EPICA Dome C Ice Cores Deuterium Data LAST UPDATE: 7/2004 (Original receipt by WDC Paleo) CONTRIBUTOR: Jean Jouzel, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace/ Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, UMR CEA-CNRS 1572, CE Saclay, Orme des Merisiers, 91191Gif-Sur-Yvette, France. IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2004-038 ORIGINAL REFERENCE: EPICA community members. 2004. Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core. Nature, Vol. 429, No 6992, pp.623-628, June 10, 2004. doi:10.1038/nature02599. ABSTRACT: The Antarctic Vostok ice core provided compelling evidence of the nature of climate, and of climate feedbacks, over the past 420,000 years.. GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Antarctica PERIOD OF RECORD: 0 - 741 kyr BP DATA: 1. Deuterium data from EPICA Dome C ice cores, 6.6-3140.5 metres. Column 1: Depth (m) at top of averaging interval Column 2: Depth (m) at bottom of averaging interval Column 3: Age (years before 1950 on EDC2 timescale) at top of averaging interval Column 4: Age (years before 1950 on EDC2 timescale) at bottom of averaging interval Column 5: Mean age (EDC2 timescale, mean of columns 3 and 4) Column 6: dD, permill Depth/top Depth/bot. Age/Top Age/bot. Age/mean deltaD 6.6 10.45 38 102 70 -391.2 10.45 14.3 102 175 138.5 -396.49 14.3 18.15 175 256 215.5 -398.19

  22. Overview L. Thompson • About the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program • Ways to search the data archive • Brief summary of available ice core data • Other resources available at our website

  23. Other resources http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html

  24. Paleo Primer http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/primer.html

  25. Slide sets http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/slides.html

  26. Climate Time Line http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ctl/index.html

  27. Paleo Perspectives http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/perspectives.html

  28. Paleo Perspective on Global Warming http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/index.html Revised November 2006

  29. Paleo Perspective on Global Warming http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/index.html Revised November 2006

  30. Paleo Perspective on Abrupt Climate Change http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/abrupt/index.html Currently in revision

  31. Paleo Perspective on Abrupt Climate Change http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/abrupt/index.html Currently in revision

  32. Paleo Perspective on Abrupt Climate Change http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/abrupt/index.html

  33. NCDC Climate Change resources http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/climateextremes.html Includes links to the Climate Monitoring page with State of the Climate Reports, references on Climate Trends and Extreme Events, Indices of Climatic Change for the US, Global Warming FAQ, and links to various climate databases.

  34. NOAA Climate Change resources http://www.education.noaa.gov/

  35. http://serc.carleton.edu/usingdata/datasheets/Vostok_IceCore.htmlhttp://serc.carleton.edu/usingdata/datasheets/Vostok_IceCore.html http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/mathstatmodels/examples/Vostok.html

  36. -50 Vostok Antarctica y = 0.0937x - 81.897 -55 2 -40 300 R = 0.6568 Temperature CO2 -60 Temperature (°C) 250 -50 Temperature (degrees C) CO2 (ppmv) -65 200 -60 -70 150 170 190 210 230 250 270 290 310 CO2 (ppmv) -70 100 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 Age (thousands of years before present)

  37. Thanks! Questions or comments? carrie.morrill@noaa.gov

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