Authors
Cody Routson, Northern Arizona University
Darrell S. Kaufman, Northern Arizona University
Nicholas P. McKay, Northern Arizona University
Michael P. Erb, Northern Arizona University
Stephanie H. Arcusa, Northern Arizona University
Kendrick J. Brown, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, Canada
Matthew E. Kirby, California State University, Fullerton
Jeremiah P. Marsicek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
R Scott Anderson, Northern Arizona University
Gonzalo Jimenez-Moreno, Unisersidad de Granada, Spain
Jessica R. Rodysill, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, United States Geological Survey, Reston, VA
Matthew S. Lachniet, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Sherilyn C. Fritz, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Joseph R. Bennett, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Michelle F. Goman, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
Sarah E. Metcalfe, The University of Nottingham
Jennifer M. Galloway, Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary, Canada
Gerrit Schoups, Delft University of Technology
David B. Wahl, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center, United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
Jesse L. Morris, University of Utah
Francisca Staines-Urias, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Menlo Park, CA
Andria Dawson, Mount Royal University
Bryan N. Shuman, University of Wyoming
Daniel G. Gavin, University of Oregon
Jeffrey S. Munroe, Middlebury College
Brian F. Cumming, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Date of this Version
4-19-2021
Abstract
Holocene climate reconstructions are useful for understanding the diverse features and spatial heterogeneity of past and future climate change. Here we present a database of western North American Holocene paleoclimate records. The database gathers paleoclimate time series from 184 terrestrial and marine sites, including 381 individual proxy records. The records span at least 4000 of the last 12 000 years (median duration of 10 725 years) and have been screened for resolution, chronologic control, and climate sensitivity. Records were included that reflect temperature, hydroclimate, or circulation features. The database is shared in the machine readable Linked Paleo Data (LiPD) format and includes geochronologic data for generating site-level time-uncertain ensembles. This publicly accessible and curated collection of proxy paleoclimate records will have wide research applications, including, for example, investigations of the primary features of ocean– atmospheric circulation along the eastern margin of the North Pacific and the latitudinal response of climate to orbital changes. The database is available for download at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12863843.v1 (Routson and McKay, 2020).
