NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - Paleoclimate Reconstruction Challenge

NOAA Paleoclimatology Program, NCDC Paleoclimatology Branch

Paleoclimate Reconstruction Challenge

PR Challenge pseudo-proxy site map	Paleoclimate Reconstruction Challenge N. Graham¹, R. D'Arrigo², K. Anchukaitis², E. Wahl³, D. Anderson³ ¹ Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA, USA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, USA ² Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 61 Route 9W/Post Office Box 1000, Palisades, NY 10964-8000, USA. ³ NOAA National Climatic Data Center Paleoclimatology Branch, 325 Broadway, Code E/CC23, Boulder, CO 80305-3328, U.S.A.

DESCRIPTION: The last two millennia Paleoclimate Reconstruction (PR) Challenge is designed to engage the scientific PR community in examining its methods in a common framework for the purpose of evaluating their relative strengths and weaknesses. NOAA Paleoclimatology will distribute pseudoproxy data sets that researchers can use to create reconstructions, and NOAA will also distribute the contributed reconstructions so that they can be cross-compared. A key portion of the design of the Challenge is to allow true "apples to apples" comparison of methods across identical experimental platforms. The ultimate goal is to improve last two millennia PR methods so that paleoclimate science can offer the best possible information to help understand both natural and anthropogenic climate change. We hope that other scientists, students, and citizens interested in learning more about paleoclimate reconstructions will also examine the Challenge's experimental data and contributed reconstructions, as a means to better understand some of the strengths and weaknesses of paleoclimate reconstruction data sets and methods.

For more information and to download data, please see the
Paleoclimate Reconstruction Challenge Home Page


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