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WORLD DATA CENTER FOR PALEOCLIMATOLOGY |
Dr. David Anderson, Director | Tel: +1 303 497 6237 |
WDC for Paleoclimatology | Fax: +1 303 497 6513 |
NOAA/NGDC Code E/CC23 | E-mail: david.m.anderson@noaa.gov |
325 Broadway |
Home Page: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/datalist.html |
Boulder, CO 80305-3328 | |
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Maintained by: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The WDC for Paleoclimatology, Boulder is operated by the National Climatic Data Center and collocated with the National Geophysical Data Center in Boulder, CO. Summary of Data Held: Estimates of past environments derived
from tree rings, ice cores, marine and lake sediments, etc. Most data are for the
Quaternary (the past 700,000 years), some for earlier climates. Archives include the raw
data used to reconstruct climate variables. Examples include:
User Services: The WDC for Paleoclimatology is located in the David Skaggs Building at 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado. Visitors are welcome during normal working hours; advance notice is recommended. Visitors are welcome during normal working hours; advance notice is recommended. A visiting scientist program exists. All data are available via the Internet (URL address above), and anonymous FTP (ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov). Login for FTP access is userid: anonymous, and password: your full e-mail address. Publications: The Paleoclimate Data Record (discontinued). Special Projects: Past Global Changes (PAGES), an International Geosphere Biosphere Program Core Project, is distributing data via the WDC-USA. The Paleoclimate Model Intercomparison Project, sponsored by NATO, will compare numerical climate model simulations for different geological eras. Data from this project will be archived at and distributed via the WDC-USA. Other projects include a Database of Arctic climate variability for the past 2,000 years, and the archival of data from the 2007 IPCC Paleoclimatology Chapter. |
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