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OC3 webinar: Harmonizing foraminiferal proxy data: implications for deglacial changes in global mean sea surface temperature and ocean circulation
Logistics
Date: Tuesday 10 May
Description
Speaker: Stefan Mulitza (MARUM, Germany)
Registration
Please register here by 8 May.
Abstract
As paleoclimate data are the only means to evaluate climate models beyond the instrumental phase and on longer (i.e., centennial and millennial) timescales, the comparison of climate model output and paleoclimatic data will remain a central task for current and future generations of climate scientists. Although foraminiferal proxy data are available in vast quantities and often with global coverage, only very few quality-controlled proxy data compilations have been published so far, mainly due to inconsistencies in the applied stratigraphic methods, inhomogeneous data structures and often highly fragmented data sets. To improve the efficiency and sustainability of the compilation process, we have created the desktop applications PaleoDataView and PaleoDataMap. I will show how these software-toolboxes can be applied to data collections of foraminiferal δ18O, δ13C and Mg/Ca produced within the PAGES OC3 and PalMod projects and discuss the implications for the evolution of global mean sea surface temperature and ocean circulation over the last deglaciation.
More information
Contact: Ning Zhao, nzhao@sklec.ecnu.edu.cn