PAGES Magazine
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This issue has a special focus on data, one of the key “fuels” of PAGES research and an important and ever-increasing future legacy of the IGBP. Contributions are included that illustrate a range of data efforts in different parts of the world.
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Individual Newsletter Articles
Editorial
> The Responsibilities of Data Sharing and Data Use [p.1-2]
The PAGES Scientific Steering Committee
Science Highlights
> Review of the Greenland Summit Ice Cores CD-ROM [p.2]
I. Renfrew
> The Paleoenvironmental Database of China (PDC) [p.3]
Q. Xiaoguang
> What’s New at the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology [p.4]
D.M. Anderson and B.A. Bauer
> The IMAGES Database [p.5]
S. de Rijk, L. Labeyrie and D.M. Anderson
> A PEP III Multi-Proxy Database for Managing and Analyzing Paleoenvironmental Data [p.6]
S. Juggins
> PKDB - the International Paleoclimate Database [p.7]
I. Lentner
Program News
> Joint PAGES-LOICZ Initiative on Late Holocene Sea-Level and Climate Change [p.8]
> Spain: Paleoclimatology of the Last 18,000 Years [p.8]
> PAGES–CLIVAR Intersection [p.9]
> PEP III News [p.9]
Workshop Reports
> Reconstructing the Isotopic Composition of Past Precipitation from Continental Archives [p.10]
> Searching for Missing Ice Sheets on the Tibetan Plateau [p.11]
> Atlantic Transect of the European Lakes Drilling Program (AT–ELDP) [p.11]
> EU Advanced Study Course: Holocene Climate Reconstuction [p.12]
> Tephrochronologie et Co-existence Hommes-Volcans [p.13]
> PEP II Meeting [p.13-14]
> The Southeast Asian Dendro Workshop 1998 (SEA Dendro 98) [p.14-15]
Open Highlights
> Darwin on dust at sea [p.16]
This issue includes a major section devoted to paleoenvironmental research on the Chinese loess and paleosol sequences that provide one of the world’s most detailed and continuous continental records of past environmental change.
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Editorial
> Loess [p.1]
F. Oldfield
Science Highlights
> Loess Dating Progress in China [p.2]
J. Liu, T. Liu and T Chen
> A new Proxy of the East Asian Paleomonsoon [p.2]
Z. Guo, T. Liu, L. Wei, N. Wu, H. Lu and W. Jiang
> Reconstruction of Paleoclimate in the Loess Plateau using Non-Linear Mathematical Methods [p.3]
N. Wu, H. Lu and Z. Guo
> Climatic Instability during the Penultimate Glaciation: Evidence from the Chinese Loess Deposits [p.3-4]
Z. L. Ding, J.Z. Ren, J.M. Sun and T.S. Liu
> Millennial-Scale Climatic Oscillations during the Last Interglaciation in Central China [p.4]
Z. An and S. C. Porter
> Seasonal Climatic Variation recorded by Phytolith Assemblages from the Baoji Loess Sequence in Central China over the last 150 ka [p.4-5]
H. Lu, N. Wu, T. Liu, J. Han, X. Qin, X. Sun and Y. Wange
> Comparison of East Asian Monsoon Proxies from the Central China Loess Plateau and Lake Biwa [p.5]
J.L. Xiao
> Last Interglacial sharp Monsoon Fluctuations: Rock Magnetic and Paleomagnetic Evidence from High Resolution Loess-Paleosol Sequence, Lanzhou, China [p.6]
X.-M. Fang, J.-J. Li, S. Banerjee and R. van der Voo
> High Resolution Pedogenic and Rock Magnetic Records of Asian Summer Monsoon Instability during the past 60,000 Years from the Chinese Western Loess Plateau [p.7]
X.-M- Fang, B.-T. Pan, J.-J. Li, D.-H. Guan, Y. Ono, H. Fukusawa, S. Nagatsuka and M. Torii
> The Chinese Loess Plateau — Far and Wide [p.8]
P. E. Biscaye and F. E. Grousset
> Comparing the Stratigraphy of the Last Glaciation in the Loess Plateau and the Indian and Pacific Oceans [p.9]
C. D. Rokosh, N. W. Rutter, E.C. Little, Z. Ding and T. Sun
> Glacial and Interglacial Patterns for Asian Dust Transport [p.10]
X. Y. Zhang, Z. S. An and R. Arimoto
> East Asian Monsoon Variations during the Last Interglacial: Evidence from the Northwestern Margin of the Chinese Loess Plateau [p.10]
F. H. Chan, J. M. Wang and J. Bloemendal
> PAGES Focus 3: A new Initiative on past Human Impacts [p.12-13]
F. Oldfield
> Land Use and Climate Impacts on Fluvial Systems during the Period of Agriculture (LUCIFS) [p.14]
B. Wasson
Workshop Reports
> Report on Open Science Meeting and Panel Discussion [p.11-12]
> Second Workshop on Global Paleoenvironmental Data [p.14-15]
> PEP1: Paleoclimate of the Americas [p.15]
> ScanTran [p.15-16]
> Changes in the Geosphere-Biosphere during the last 15,000 Years [p.16-17]
> Global Change Research in Mountain Regions [p.17]
> Calibration of Historical Data for Reconstruction of Climate Variations [p.17-18]
PAGES and Biodiversity
> Global Climate Change and the South African Flora: Past, Present and Future [p.19]
J.C.N. Allsopp, W.J. Bond, G.F. Midgley and M.C. Rutherford
This issue contains articles about PAGES' activities in the Antarctic; Recent ENSO anomalies, a PEP III update and the activities of PAGES lake drilling task force.
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Individual Articles
Editorial
> Recent ENSO anomalies, natural variability and anthropogenic effects [p.2 and 4]
R. Bradley
Program News
> PAGES in the Antarctic [p.1-2]
I. Goodwin
> Five-year African lake study program funded by NSF [p.5]
F. Oldfield
> A proposal to establish a new reference data set of climate-proxy indicators in East African lakes [p.5]
D. Verschuren
> Activities of PAGES Lake Drilling Task Force [p.8-9]
S. Colman
> PAGES Open Science Meeting: Putting PAGES together [p.12]
F. Oldfield
Workshop Reports
> Late Quaternary sediment record of Antarctic ice margin evolution [p.3-4]
> 1st LBA Science Steering Committee meeting [p.6]
> Spatial-Temporal Dimensions of High-Latitude Ecosystem Changes [p.6-7]
> Land Use and Land Cover Change (LUCC)/IGBP-DIS Data Requirements Workshop [p.7]
The main foci of this PAGES news are the Pole-Equator-Pole Transect that runs through Europe and Africa (PEP III) and the International Marine Global Change Study (IMAGES).
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Individual Articles
Editorial
> Editorial: PEP III [p.2]
F. Oldfield
Science Highlights
> The last Glacial Period: rapid changes in air temperature and ocean hydrology [p.15-16]
E. Cortijo, M. Elliot, L. Vidal, L. Labeyrie, C. Kissel and F. Grousset
Program News
> The IMAGES ocean coring and scientific cooperation efforts [p.8-13]
Workshop Reports
> PEP III: the Paris-Bierville Workshop [p.1-4]
> 1996-1997 Activities of CAPE [p.5-6]
Special issue on the "Pole-Equator-Pole I" (PEP I) transect through the Americas.
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Individual Articles
Editorial
> Editorial: PEP I [p.1]
F. Oldfield
Science Highlights
> Great Barrier Reef 'Climatic Optimum' at 5,800 y BP [p.15-16]
M.K. Gagan, L.K. Ayliffe, S. Anket, D. Hopley, M.T. McCulloch, P.J. Isdale, J.M.A. Chappell and J. Head
Program News
> PEP I Research ond Workshop Activities [p.2-4]
> PEP II Activities in New Zealand [p.4-5]
> PEP II Activities in China [p.5-7]
> PEP II Activities in Taiwan [p.8]
> PEP II PAGES Program in Taiwan (1992-1996) [p.12-13]
> PEP II Documenting Past: Environmental Changes in Taiwan and Adjacent Areas, Results of PAGES Taiwan 1992-1996 [p.13-14]
> Cooperative Research Project "ACACIA" (Arid Climate, Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa) 1995-2010 [p.11-12]
Workshop Reports
> 1st PAGES/CLIVAR Working Group meeting [p.9-10]
> Water and Climate Studies in Canada using Isotope Tracers: Past, Present, Future [p.11]
PAGES Magazine (formerly PAGES news) is PAGES' main publication, a free paleoscience magazine published two to three times a year.
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Content overview
PAGES in Perspective
Project Organization
Workshop Report: A Workshop'on Glaciers, lce Sheets, and Sea level
PEP I
PAGES Magazine (formerly PAGES news) is PAGES' main publication, a free paleoscience magazine published two to three times a year.
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EPICA
IMAGES
GNIP- Isotopes in Precipitation
Paleotemperature Records Derived from Atmospheric Noble Gases Dissolved in Radiocarbon-dated Groundwater
M. Stute
Progress with PEPS
PAGES Magazine (formerly PAGES news) is PAGES' main publication, a free paleoscience magazine published two to three times a year.
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Content overview
Global Paleoenvironmental Data
Recent Workshops
> Isotopes and continental records
> Continental Drilling for paleoclimatic records
> The GISP 2 and GRIP Ice core records
Eolian Input to marine Sediments in the Arabian Sea: Tracers of pastmonsoon Circulation
F. Sirocko
Progress with PEPS
PAGES Magazine (formerly PAGES news) is PAGES' main publication, a free paleoscience magazine published two to three times a year.
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Content overview
PANASH: Science and implementation plans
Workshop reports: CAPE, PEPI, PEPIII, Archeoclimatology workshop
Changes of solar irradiance and temperature over the last few centuries
PAGES Magazine (formerly PAGES news) is PAGES' main publication, a free paleoscience magazine published two to three times a year.
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Workshops: International himalayan-tibetan plateau paleoclimate workshop, Inter-American Institute-PAGES meeting
Melting of your tropical climatic archives