PalaeoQUMP (Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System - Using Palaeodata to Quantify Uncertainties in Model Prediction): Global Charcoal Database

• Published by: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
• Last updated: 12 September 2016
• Topic: Environment
• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

PalaeoQUMP was headed by Prof Sandy Harrison of the University of Bristol, with co-investigators at the University of Southampton and Durham University, as part of QUEST (Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System).

This dataset collection contains data from charcoal records that have been compiled for the Mediterranean, Black Sea-Caspian and Sea corridor region.

PalaeoQUMP aimed to constrain climate sensitivity by using a wider range of derived climate observations from the geological past (reconstructions from sediments and geomorphological changes for the Last Glacial Maximum and the mid-Holocene period), to evaluate climate model predictions generated using the same series of simulations as QUMP produced for the modern climate. The mid-Holocene and LGM climate reconstructions have been completed, with input from the PMIP Quantitative Reconstruction working group. Robust patterns evident in the data sets are being used as benchmarks and targets for the IPCC AR5 palaeoclimate simulations. The team has also produced the first coupled model (AOGCM) perturbed physics ensemble simulations of the MH and LGM. However the objective of using this data for an improved understanding of past climate to better constrain climate sensitivity has not yet been fully achieved.

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
QUEST website at Bristol	N/A	12 September 2016	Not available
PalaeoQUMP website at Bristol	N/A	12 September 2016	Not available
Published paper: Using the past to constrain the future	N/A	12 September 2016	Not available
Dataset Homepage	N/A	12 September 2016	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2017-07-17
• Access contraints: Restricted; Access groups: quest-res; Licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/quest.pdf
• Harvest GUID: 70784fb8-fc59-429c-ac60-d065a0f8688c
• Extent: Latitude: 90.0° to -90.0°
• Extent: Longitude: -180.0° to 180.0°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
• Dataset reference date: 2008-12-10T03:15:45 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 2008-12-10T03:15:45 (creation)
• Frequency of update: asNeeded
• Responsible party: (ceda_officer, author); University of Bristol (author); British Atmospheric Data Centre (publisher, curator, metadata_owner, point_of_contact, custodian, distributer); Polaris House (author)
• ISO 19139 resource type: series
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
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