MOTIF Data Sets For Palaeoclimate Model Evaluation


 

Vegetation maps for the mid-holocene and last glacial maximum
Mega-biome maps for the mid-holocene and last glacial maximum
Diagnostic for mid-holocene precipitation over Northern Africa
Global lake status for the mid-holocene and last glacial maximum
Tropical climates at the last glacial maximum
Diagnostic for magnitude of tropical cooling at the last glacial maximum
Extent of Aral/Caspian seas at the last glacial maximum
BIOME4 equilibrium biogeography-biogeochemistry model
6k North Atlantic sea-surface temperatures

 

Note: data courtesy of the Bristol Research Initiative of the Dynamic Global Environment at the University of Bristol, UK.

Technical queries about the data sets should be addressed to Sandy Harrison or Mark Creighton.

Note for UNIX users: original data was usually in Microsoft Excel format and was converted into tab- or semicolon-separated text files. Original Excel comments and formatting were lost during the conversion...

When possible, we suggest you check the original Excel file!


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