World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, NCDC Paleoclimatology Branch

Paleoclimatology Data Search

Search paleoclimate dataset descriptions by entering author or other keywords and/or selecting a set. All sets searches the metadata files describing the datasets contained in World Data Center (WDC) for Paleoclimatology and the paleoclimate collection of the Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data (PANGAEA).

Specific searches with drop-down lists of author and species, taxa, and other attributes may be made using one of the following Restricted Searches: Corals & Sclerosponges, Fire History, Ice Core, Paleocean, Paleolimnology, Plant Macrofossil, Pollen, Tree-ring, GCM Boundary Conditions, GCM Output, or Author Search,

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Enter latitude and longitude values to bound your search. Enter as numbers 90 to -90 and -180 to 180.

	North

West		East

	South

Enter year(s) to bound your data search. Search uses Calendar Years Before Present where present is defined as 1950. (e.g. "<= -20 cal yr BP" will return sets with data newer than 1970 AD, ">= 1500 cal yr BP" will return sets with data older than 450 AD)
<= cal yr BP	>= cal yr BP

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