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LegacyClimate 1.0: a dataset of pollen-based climate reconstructions from 2594 Northern Hemisphere sites covering the last 30 kyr and beyond
Ulrike Herzschuh
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener Institute
Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473
Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Environmental Science and Geography, University of
Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24–25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam,
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24–25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Thomas Böhmer
Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener Institute
Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473
Potsdam, Germany
Chenzhi Li
Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener Institute
Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473
Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Environmental Science and Geography, University of
Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24–25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Manuel Chevalier
Institute of Geosciences, Sect. Meteorology, Rheinische
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Auf dem
Hügel 20, 53121 Bonn, Germany
Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics IDYST, Faculté des
Géosciences et l'Environnement, University of Lausanne, Bâtiment Géopolis, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Raphaël Hébert
Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener Institute
Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473
Potsdam, Germany
Anne Dallmeyer
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstraße 53, 20146
Hamburg, Germany
Xianyong Cao
Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener Institute
Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473
Potsdam, Germany
Alpine Paleoecology and Human Adaptation Group (ALPHA), State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101 Beijing, China
Nancy H. Bigelow
Alaska Quaternary Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks,
Fairbanks, Alaska 99775, USA
Larisa Nazarova
Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener Institute
Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473
Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies, Kazan Federal University, Kremlyovskaya Street 18, 420008 Kazan, Russia
Elena Y. Novenko
Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leniskie
Gory 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia
Department of Quaternary Paleogeography, Institute of Geography
Russian Academy of Science, Staromonrtny Lane 29, 119017 Moscow, Russia
Jungjae Park
Department of Geography, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro,
Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
Institute for Korean Regional Studies, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
Odile Peyron
Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier,
Université de Montpellier, CNRS UMR 5554, Montpellier, France
Natalia A. Rudaya
PaleoData Lab, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian
Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pr. Akademika 36 Lavrentieva 17, 630090
Novosibirsk, Russia
Biological Institute, Tomsk State University, Pr. Lenina, 26,
634050 Tomsk, Russia
Frank Schlütz
Institute for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, University of Kiel, Germany, Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2–6, 24118 Kiel, Germany
Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Wilhelm Weber Str. 2a, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Lyudmila S. Shumilovskikh
Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Wilhelm Weber Str. 2a, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Pavel E. Tarasov
Institute of Geological Sciences, Palaeontology Section, Freie Universität Berlin, Malteserstraße 74–100, Building D, 12249 Berlin, Germany
Yongbo Wang
College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal
University, 105 West Third Ring Road North, 100048 Beijing, China
Ruilin Wen
Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of
Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Beitucheng West
Road, Chaoyang District, 100029 Beijing, China
Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100044 Beijing, China
Qinghai Xu
School of Geographic Sciences, Hebei Normal University, 050024
Shijiazhuang, China
Zhuo Zheng
Guangdong Key Lab of Geodynamics and Geohazards, School of Earth
Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, 519082 Zhuhai, China
Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory
(Zhuhai), 519082 Zhuhai, China
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Climate reconstruction from proxy data can help evaluate climate models. We present pollen-based reconstructions of mean July temperature, mean annual temperature, and annual precipitation from 2594 pollen records from the Northern Hemisphere, using three reconstruction methods (WA-PLS, WA-PLS_tailored, and MAT). Since no global or hemispheric synthesis of quantitative precipitation changes are available for the Holocene so far, this dataset will be of great value to the geoscientific community.
Climate reconstruction from proxy data can help evaluate climate models. We present pollen-based...
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