World Data Center for Paleoclimatology

• Climate modeling methodologies (current list)
  

Borehole Data

Borehole Temperature Measurements Interpreted as a History of Climate Change

• University of Michigan's Global Database of Borehole Temperatures and Climate Reconstructions
  

Climate Forcing Data Sets

Data on Factors Potentially Affecting Climate

• Orbital Variations Calculations
• Solar Variability
• Volcanic Aerosols
• Tropospheric Aerosols
• Atmospheric Trace Gases
• Forcing and Model Results for the Past 1000 Years, Crowley 2000.
• Hypothesized Climate Forcing Time Series for the Last 500 Years, Robertson et al. 2001.
• Volcanic Eruptions and Aerosol Optical Depth, 40,000 Years, Bryson 1988.
• Volcanic and Solar Forcing of the Tropical Pacific, 1,000 Years, Mann et al. 2005

Coral Data

Stable Isotope and Trace Metal Data as Proxies of Upper Ocean Environment 

• Full site list sorted by Ocean Basin

Faunal Data

Fossilized Animal Remains as a Proxy for Paleoenvironment

• The Sahara in the Holocene

Historical Documentary Data

Records of Harvest Dates, Waterway Freeze Dates, etc as a Paleoclimate Proxy

• Full site list

Ice Core Data

Proxy Paleoclimate Indicators include Stable Isotopes, Gas Concentrations, and Dust Content.

• Full site list sorted by site location

Insect Data

Fossil Insect Data as a Proxy for Paleoenvironment

• British Coleoptera

• British Columbia Chironomid Data
• North American Beetles
• Alaska Fossil Faunal Data

Lake Level Databases

Paleolimnology/Tree Rings - Geomorphic Reconstructions of Past Lake Levels as an Indicator of Precipitation/Evaporation

Caspian and Aral Seas: Data and Description

• lakelevels/caspian-aral/bigsea_dat.txt

• lakelevels/caspian-aral/readme_caspian-aral.txt

Europe: Data and Description

• /lakelevels/europe/

• /lakelevels/europe/readme_europelake.txt

Former Soviet Union and Mongolia: Data and Description

• paleolimnology/lakelevels/former_ussr/

• paleolimnology/lakelevels/former_ussr/readme_fsulakes.txt
  

Oxford Global Lake Level Database: Data and Description

• /paleolimnology/lakelevels/oxford/

• /paleolimnology/lakelevels/oxford/readme_oxford_lldb.txt
  

Viau and Gajewski 2001 Global Lake Level Status Grids : Data and Description

• http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/pubs/viau2001/viau2001.html
  

Owens Lake California Lake Level History and Description Benson et al. 1996

• /paleolimnology/california/owenslake/olcomb.txt

• /paleolimnology/california/owenslake/readme_benson1996.txt
  

Peace-Athabasca Lake Levels and Description Stockton and Fritts 1973.

• /treering/.../peace-athabasca_dat.txt
  

Loess Data

Windblown Glacial Dust Deposits as a Proxy for Paleoenvironment

DIRTMAP Global Eolian Flux Database, Last Glacial Maximum, Late Holocene, and Modern:

Version 2 all data, or individual version 2 tables by source type.

• /dirtmap/version2/kohfeld2001.txt
  

• /dirtmap/version2/

Also available are the version 1 database tables.

• /dirtmap/version1/
  

Ding et al. Lingtai, China Loess Data and Description.

• /ding1999/dingdata.txt
• /readme_ding1999.txt
  

Kohfeld et al. Mid-continent USA Peoria Loess Thickness Data.

• http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/loess/peoria/peoria.html
  

Ice Core Tropospheric Aerosol Data.

• http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/forcing.html#tropo
  

Paleoclimate Modeling Output

Computer Models of the Climate System used to Analyze and Predict Climate Change and Variability

• Climate Model Data and Visualization Page

• Search Engine for Model Output

• Search Engine for Boundary Conditions

Paleofire

Fire history derived from paleoenvironmental proxy data

• International Multiproxy Paleofire Database (IMPD) project

Paleolimnology Data

Lake Sediment Data Including Stable Isotopes and Microfauna as a Proxy for Paleoenvironment

• Full site list sorted by site location

Paleoceanography Data

Ocean Sediment Chemistry and Fossil Plankton Data as a Proxy for Paleoenvironment

• CLIMAP Data Set
• SPECMAP Data Set
• Relative Sea Level Database
• Calcium Carbonate Concentration Database
• Planktonic Foraminifera Counts Data, Brown University
• Planktonic Foraminifera Counts Data, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
• Planktonic Foraminifera Counts Data, P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
• Paleoceanographic Data Sets by Contributor
  

Featured Paleoceanographic Data Sets:

• deMenocal et al. 2000 Holocene subtropical Atlantic SST reconstruction.
• Haug et al. 2001 Cariaco Basin trace metal data and Holocene ITCZ migration.
• Oppo et al. 2003 Holocene NADW variability and benthic foraminifera isotope data.
• Peterson et al. 2000 Tropical Atlantic glacial hydrologic cycle changes and trace element data.
• Schulz et al. 1998 Arabian Sea stable isotope and TOC data and North Atlantic teleconnections.

Plant Macrofossil Data

Visible Plant Fragments such as Cones, Twigs, and Seeds as a Proxy for Paleoenvironment

• North American Plant Macrofossil Database
• New England Lakes Plant Macrofossil Data

Pollen Data

Fossil Pollen Grains Interpreted as an Indicator of Past Plant Communities and Paleoclimate

• Global Pollen Database

Phytolith Data

• Mercader African Phytolith Data

Radiocarbon Data

• Great Lakes Region Radiocarbon Data
• Sahara Region Radiocarbon Data
• Hughen et al. 2000 Cariaco Basin Radiocarbon Calibration
• Hughen et al. 2004 Cariaco Basin 50KYr. Radiocarbon Calibration

Reconstructed Climate Parameters

• Full list sorted by reconstructed variable and location

Speleothem (Cave Deposit) Data

• Full site list sorted by location

Treering Data

• The International Tree Ring Data Bank

Other Paleo Data

• Barrows et al. 2001 Dating of Late Pleistocene Australian Mainland Glaciation 
• IAEA/WMO Network of Isotopes in Precipitation
• Correlation of Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scales
• Late Quaternary Ice Extent and Topography
• Kaandorp et al. 2005 Peruvian Amazonia Miocene Freshwater Bivalve Data
• Rousseau and Puissgur 1999 MIS 5 French Alps Land Snails Data 
• Schwartz and Reiter North American Lilac Phenology Data 
• Paleoenvironmental ARCtic Sciences (PARCS) 
• Circumpolar Arctic PaleoEnvironments (CAPE)