Abstract
We present a continuous land-based climate reconstruction dataset extending back 60 kyr from 0 BP (1950) at 0.5° resolution on a monthly timestep for 0°N to 90°N. It has been generated from 42 discrete snapshot simulations using the HadCM3B-M2.1 coupled general circulation model. We incorporate Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) and Heinrich events to represent millennial scale variability, based on a temperature reconstruction from Greenland ice-cores, with a spatial fingerprint based on a freshwater hosing simulation with HadCM3B-M2.1. Interannual variability is also added and derived from the initial snapshot simulations. Model output has been downscaled to 0.5° resolution (using simple bilinear interpolation) and bias corrected. Here we present surface air temperature, precipitation, incoming shortwave energy, minimum monthly temperature, snow depth, wind chill and number of rainy days per month. This is one of the first open access climate datasets of this kind and can be used to study the impact of millennial to orbital-scale climate change on terrestrial greenhouse gas cycling, northern extra-tropical vegetation, and megaflora and megafauna population dynamics.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 265 (2019) |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Scientific Data |
Volume | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 7 Nov 2019 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- Information Systems
- Education
- Computer Science Applications
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
- Library and Information Sciences
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A simulated Northern Hemisphere terrestrial climate dataset for the past 60,000 years
Armstrong, E. (Creator), Hopcroft, P. (Creator) & Valdes, P. J. (Creator), Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (NERC/STFC), 25 Oct 2019
DOI: 10.5285/4ca242208e904efe830af45f1697f730
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Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR)
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