The Paleoclimate Reanalysis (PaleoR): Southern Hemisphere Version
PaleoR combines proxy climate records such as ice cores, tree rings and coral records, with global climate model data to produce a multivariate estimate of the state of the climate system over the past 1200 years at decadal to multidecadal resolution.
The distribution of proxy data used in the Australasia and Indo-Pacific versions are shown in Figure 1 below. The climate model used for the Australasia and Indo-Pacific versions is the CSIRO Mk3L (Phipps et al 2011).
For additional information about the included proxy data, model simulations, data assimilation approach and analysis of selected time periods see:
Browning, S. A., Goodwin, I. D. (2015) The Paleoclimate Reanalysis Project. Climate of the Past Discussions (Submitted August 2015).
Goodwin, I. D., Browning, S. A., & Anderson, A. J. (2014). Climate windows for Polynesian voyaging to New Zealand and Easter Island.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(41), 14716-14721.
http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1408918111
Goodwin, I., Browning, S., Lorrey, A., Mayewski, P., Phipps, S., Bertler, N. N., et al. (2013).
A reconstruction of extratropical Indo-Pacific sea-level pressure patterns during the Medieval Climate Anomaly.
Climate Dynamics, 43(5-6), 1197-1219. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-013-1899-1
Phipps, S. J., Rotstayn, L. D., Gordon, H. B., Roberts, J. L., Hirst, A. C. and Budd, W. F. (2011).
The CSIRO Mk3L climate system model version 1.0 - Part 1: Description and evaluation,
Geosci. Model Dev., 4(2), 483-509, doi:10.5194/gmd-4-483-2011.
For further information and access to the PaleoR dataset please contact:
stuart.browning@mq.edu.au
ian.goodwin@mq.edu.au
Figure 1 Map of proxy climate records used in the Paleoclimate Reanalysis Australasia and Indo Pacific versions. For details of specific records see (Goodwin et al. 2013; Goodwin et al. 2014).
