World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, NCDC Paleoclimatology Branch

Paleolimnology Data Sets

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Title	North	South	West	East	P.I.
A Lateglacial and Holocene organic carbon isotope record of lacustrine palaeoproductivity and climate change derived from varved lake sediments of Lake Holzmaar, Germany.	50.1166	50.1166	6.8833	6.8833	Lücke, A.; Zolitschka, B.
Influence of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on the climate of the Sierra Nevada, California and Nevada	38	38	-119	-119	Benson, L.V.; Linsley, B.K.; Smoot, J.P.; Mensing, S.; Lund, S.P.; Stine, S.
Late Holocene moisture balance variability in the southwest Yukon Territory, Canada.	60.073306	60.073306	-133.805462	-133.805462	Anderson, L.; Abbott, M.B.; Finney, B.P.; Burns, S.J.
Centennial-scale compound-specific hydrogen isotope record of Pleistocene¿Holocene climate transition from southern New England.	42.083	42.083	-71.916	-71.916	Hou, J.; Huang, Y.; Oswald, W.; Foster, D.R.; Shuman, B.
A 2000 year varve-based climate record from the central Brooks Range, Alaska.	68.0869	68.0869	-150.465	-150.465	Bird, B.W.; Abbott, M.B.; Finney, B.P.; Kutchko, B.
An ~15,000-Year Record of El Niño-Driven Alluviation in Southwestern Ecuador	2.76667	2.76667	-79.23333	-79.23333	Rodbell, D.
Climate Variability on the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) during the last 3500 years, and implications for Maya cultural evolution	20.63	20.63	-87.5	-87.5	Curtis, J.H.
Holocene Climate Inferred from Oxygen Isotope Ratios in Lake Sediments, Central Brooks Range, Alaska	68.68361	67.66667	-149.075	-149.075	Anderson, L.
Rapid environmental changes in southern Europe during the last glacial period	40.93333	40.93333	15.5833	15.5833	Allen, J.R.M.; Huntley, B.; Negendank, J.F.W.
Mid to Late Holocene climate change in northcentral Mongolia as recorded in the sediments of Lake Telmen	48.8332	48.8129	97.2367	97.3888	Peck, J.A.; Khosbayar, P.
Quantitative summer-temperature reconstructions for the last 2000 years based on pollen-stratigraphical data from northern Fennoscandia.	68.433	68.433	18.066	18.066	Bjune, A.E.; Seppä, H.; Birks, H.J.B.
Solar and anthropogenic imprints on Lake Masoko (southern Tanzania) during the last 500 years.	-9.3333	-9.3333	33.755	33.755	Garcin, Y.; Brewer, S.; Williamson, D.; Bergonzini, L.; Radakovitch, O.; Vincens, A.; Buchet, G.; Guiot, J.; Mathe, P.-E.; Majule, A.
Climatic and Hydrologic Oscillations in the Owens Lake Basin and Adjacent Sierra Nevada, California	36.5	36.5	-119	-119	Benson, L.V.
Hydrological variability in southeastern Patagonia and explosive volcanic activity in the southern Andean Cordillera during Oxygen Isotope Stage 3 and the Holocene inferred from lake sediments of Lag	-51.95	-51.95	-70.3833	-70.3833	Haberzettl, T.; Ohlendorf, C.; Zolitschka, B.
Possible solar forcing of century-scale drought frequency in the northern Great Plains	48.00806	48.00806	-101.53028	-101.53028	Yu, Z.
A 725 yr cycle in the climate of central Africa during the late Holocene	-.4167	-.4167	29.75	29.75	Russell, J.M.; Johnson, T.C.; Talbot, M.R.
Northern Hemisphere Controls on Tropical Southeast African Climate During the Past 60,000 Years.	-6.71378	-6.71378	29.832616	29.832616	Tierney, J.E.; Russell, J.M.; Huang, Y.; Sinninghe Damste, J.S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Cohen, A.S.
Pollen-based reconstructions of late Holocene climate from the central and western Canadian Arctic.	69.806	69.806	-112.075	-112.075	Peros, M.C.; Gajewski, K.J.
The Holocene paleolimnology of Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan: trace element and stable isotope composition of ostracodes	42.47	42.4465	76.7193	76.75	Ricketts, R.D.; Johnson, T.C.; Brown, E.T.; Rasmussen, K.A.; Romanovsky, V.V.
Holocene century-scale temperature variability from West Greenland lake records	67.08639	66.66694	-51.96972	-50.28944	Willemse, N.W.
A 10,000 year high-resolution diatom record from Pilkington Bay, Lake Victoria, East Africa	.3	.3	33.3333	33.3333	Stager, J.C.; Cumming, B.F.; Meeker, L.D.
Greater drought intensity and frequency before A.D. 1200 in the Northern Great Plains, U.S.A.	46.8575	46.8575	-98.15833	-98.15833	Laird, K.
Variability of El Nino/Southern Oscillation activity at millennial time scales during the Holocene epoch	2.76667	2.76667	-79.23333	-79.23333	Moy, C.M.; Seltzer, G.O.; Rodbell, D.; Anderson, D.M.
Cooling cycles, Heinrich event 1, and the desiccation of Lake Victoria	.0833	.0833	32.8006	32.8006	Stager, J.C.; Cumming, B.F.; Meeker, L.D.
The Late Quaternary History of Large Lakes and Inland Seas of Eastern Europe	45	45	50	50	Harrison, S.
Paleolimnological evidence of the response of the central Canadian treeline zone to radiative forcing and hemispheric patterns of temperature change over the past 2000 years.	63.718	63.718	-109.318	-109.318	MacDonald, G.M.; Porinchu, D.F.; Rolland, N.; Kremenetskii, K.V.; Kaufman, D.S.
Orbital- and millennial-scale vegetation and climate changes of the past 225 ka from Bear Lake, Utah¿Idaho (USA).	42	42	-111	-111	Jiménez-Moreno, G.; Anderson, R.S.; Fawcett, P.J.
Little Ice Age Recorded in Summer Temperatures from Varved Sediments of Donard Lake, Baffin Island, Canada	66.6667	66.6667	-61.35	-61.35	Moore, J.J.; Hughen, K.A.; Miller, G.H.; Overpeck, J.T.
A High-Resolution Record of Climatic Change in Elk Lake, Minnesota for the Last 1500 Years	45.86694	45.86694	-95.80361	-95.80361	Anderson, R.Y.; Dean, W.E.
Holocene multidecadal and multicentennial droughts affecting Northern California and Nevada	40.1	36.5	-119.6	-119	Benson, L.V.; Lindstrom, S.; Kashgarian, M.; Rye, R.; Lund, S.P.; Paillet, F.; Smoot, J.P.; Kester, C.; Mensing, S.; Meko, D.
Climate change in the Lake Valencia Basin, Venezuela, ~12600 yr BP to present	10.1667	10.1667	-67.75	-67.75	Curtis, J.H.; Hodell, D.A.; Brenner, M.
Five thousand years of sediment transfer in a high arctic watershed recorded in annually laminated sediments from Lower Murray Lake, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.	81.3333	81.3333	-69.5	-69.5	Cook, T.L.; Bradley, R.S.; Stoner, J.S.; Francus, P.
Sedimentary pellets as an ice-cover proxy in a High Arctic ice-covered lake. Sedimentary pellets as an ice-cover proxy in a High Arctic ice-covered lake.	83	83	-75.5	-75.5	Tomkins, J.D.; Lamoureux, S.F.; Antoniades, D.; Vincent, W.F.
Hydrologic variation during the last 170,000 years in the southern hemisphere tropics of South America.	-20.25	-20.25	-67.5	-67.5	Fritz, S.C.; Baker, P.A.; Seltzer, G.O.; Lowenstein, T.K.; Rigsby, C.R.
Ground-water processes controlling a prairie lake's response to middle Holocene drought	45.86694	45.86694	-95.80361	-95.80361	Smith, A.J.
A Mid-European Decadal Isotope-Climate Record from 15,500 to 5000 Years B.P.	47.1	47.1	11.0166	11.0166	von Grafenstein, U.; Erlenkeuser, H.; Brauer, A.; Jouzel, J.; Johnsen, S.J.
A high-resolution proxy-climate record from an arctic lake with annually-laminated sediments on Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada	75.57	75.57	-89.31	-89.31	Gajewski, K.J.; Hamilton, P.; McNeely, R.
Possible role of climate in the collapse of the Classic Maya Civilization	19.83333	19.83333	-88.75	-88.75	Hodell, D.A.
Holocene variations in the Asian monsoon inferred from the geochemistry of lake sediments in central Tibet	31.62	31.62	92.06	92.06	Morrill, C.; Overpeck, J.T.; Cole, J.E.; Liu, K.-B.; Shen, C.; Tang, L.
Holocene changes in eastern tropical Pacific climate inferred from a Galápagos lake sediment record.	-.87	-.87	-89.45	-89.45	Conroy, J.L.; Overpeck, J.T.; Cole, J.E.; Shanahan, T.; Steinitz-Kannan, M.
Climatically induced lake level changes during the last two millennia as reflected in sediments of Laguna Potrok Aike, southern Patagonia (Santa Cruz, Argentina).	-51.95	-51.95	-70.3833	-70.3833	Haberzettl, T.; Ohlendorf, C.; Zolitschka, B.
Millennial-scale Storminess Variability in the Northeastern United States during the Holocene Epoch	44.75	43.05	-74.1167	-72.0667	Noren, A.; Bierman, P.R.; Steig, E.J.; Lini, A.; Southon, J.R.
Regional atmospheric circulation change in the North Pacific during the Holocene inferred from lacustrine carbonate oxygen isotopes, Yukon Territory, Canada	60.35	60.35	-134.8	-134.8	Anderson, L.; Abbott, M.B.; Finney, B.P.; Burns, S.J.
Paleoclimate studies of minerogenic sediments using annually resolved textural parameters.	79.334	79.334	-83.85	-83.85	Francus, P.; Bradley, R.S.; Abbott, M.B.; Patridge, W.; Keimig, F.
Decadal record of climate variability spanning the last 700 years in the southern tropics of East Africa	-9.81667	-10.005	34.1	34.28833	Johnson, T.C.
Terminal Classic drought in the northern Maya Lowlands inferred from multiple sediment cores in Lake Chichancanab (Mexico)	19.83333	19.83333	-88.75	-88.75	Hodell, D.A.; Brenner, M.; Curtis, J.H.
Rainfall and drought in equatorial east Africa during the past 1,100 years	-.7635	-.7635	36.408	36.408	Verschuren, D.
Recent Warming in a 500-Year Paleotemperature Record from Varved Sediments: Upper Soper Lake, Baffin Island, Canada	62.9167	62.9167	-69.8833	-69.8833	Hughen, K.A.; Overpeck, J.T.; Anderson, R.F.
Climate of the Little Ice Age and the past 2000 years in northeast Iceland inferred from chironomids and other lake sediment proxies.	66.2372	66.2372	-15.8347	-15.8347	Axford, Y.; Geirsdottir, A.; Miller, G.H.; Langdon, P.G.
Late Quaternary Water-Level Variations and Vegetation History at Crooked Pond, Southeastern Massachusetts	41.5	41.5	-70.5	-70.5	Shuman, B.; Bravo, J.; Kaye, J.; Lynch, J.A.; Newby, P.; Webb, T.
A 2000 year record of climatic change at Ongoke Lake, southwest Alaska.	59.25	59.25	-159.416	-159.416	Chipman, M.L.; Clarke, G.H.; Clegg, B.F.; Gregory-Eaves, I.; Hu, F.S.
Multidecadal drought and Holocene climate instability in the Rocky Mountains.	48.1648	48.1648	-114.3589	-114.3589	Stone, J.; Fritz, S.C.
Influence of the intertropical convergence zone on the East Asian monsoon	21.15	21.15	110.283	110.283	Yancheva, G.; Haug, G.H.; Nowaczyk, N.R.; Mingram, J.; Dulski, P.; Schettler, G.; Negendank, J.F.W.; Liu, J.; Sigman, D.M.; Peterson, L.C.
A multi-proxy study of Holocene environmental change in the Maya lowlands of Peten, Guatemala	16.91667	16.91667	-89.83333	-89.83333	Curtis, J.H.
Quaternary glaciation and hydrologic variation in the South American tropics as reconstructed from the Lake Titicaca drilling project.	-15.93	-15.93	-69.25	-69.25	Fritz, S.C.; Baker, P.A.; Seltzer, G.O.; Ballantyne, A.; Tapia, P.; Cheng, H.; Edwards, R.L.
A 2000 year midge-based paleotemperature reconstruction from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.	68.657	68.657	-105.357	-105.357	Porinchu, D.F.; MacDonald, G.M.; Rolland, N.
Orbital forcing of continental climate during the Pleistocene: a complete astronomically tuned climatic record from Lake Baikal, SE Siberia.	53.696	53.696	108.3516	108.3516	Prokopenko, A.A.; Hinnov, L.A.; Williams, D.F.; Kuzmin, M.I.
Lake-level Reconstructions and Paleohydrology of Birch Lake, Central Alaska Based on Seismic Reflection Profiles and Core Transects	64.3	64.3	-146.66667	-146.66667	Abbott, M.B.
Summer temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age inferred from varved proglacial lake sediments in southern Alaska.	60.783	60.783	-142.95	-142.95	Loso, M.G.
Abrupt climate oscillations during the last deglaciation in central North America	43.46667	43.46667	-79.95	-79.95	Yu, Z.
Pollen-inferred precipitation time-series from equatorial mountains, Africa, the last 40 kyr BP	-2.46667	-8.5	29.11667	30.75	Bonnefille, R.
Stable isotopes in bulk carbonates and organic matter in recent sediments of Lake Qinghai and their climatic implications.	37.058	37.058	100.303	100.303	Xu, H.; Ai, L.; Tan, L.; An, Z.
A magnetic mineral record of Late Quaternary tropical climate variability from Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana	6.5	6.5	-1.4167	-1.4167	Peck, J.A.; Green, R.R.; Shanahan, T.; King, J.W.; Overpeck, J.T.; Scholz, C.A.
Elk Lake, Minnesota: Evidence for Rapid Climate Change in the north central United States	45.86694	45.86694	-95.80361	-95.80361	Anderson, R.Y.; Dean, W.E.
Glacier fluctuations, equilibrium-line altitudes and palaeoclimate in Lyngen, northern Norway, during the Lateglacial and Holocene	69.73	69.73	19.98	19.98	Bakke, J.; Olaf Dahl, S.; Paasche, O.; Lovlie, R.; Nesje, A.
Climate of the past millennium inferred from varved proglacial lake sediments on northeast Baffin Island, Arctic Canada.	69.866	69.866	-68.833	-68.833	Thomas, E.K.; Briner, J.P.
Abrupt changes in North American climate during early Holocene times	47.68389	47.68389	-95.39944	-95.39944	Hu, F.S.
The relationship of modern plant remains to water depth in alkaline lakes in New England.	46.675	42.29583	-73.37917	-67.79861	Dieffenbacher-Krall, A.C.
A record of climate over the last millennium based on varved lake sediments from the Canadian High Arctic.	81.3333	81.3333	-69.5	-69.5	Besonen, M.R.; Patridge, W.; Bradley, R.S.; Francus, P.; Stoner, J.S.; Abbott, M.B.
Climate change on the Yucatan Peninsula during the Little Ice Age.	20.61	20.61	89.715	89.715	Hodell, D.A.; Brenner, M.; Curtis, J.H.; Medina-Gonzalez, R.; Can, E.I.-C.; Albornaz-Pat, A.; Guilderson, T.P.
Wet phases in tropical southern Africa during the last glacial period	-9.3333	-9.3333	33.755	33.755	Garcin, Y.; Vincens, A.; Williamson, D.; Guiot, J.; Buchet, G.
Abrupt climate change in southeast tropical Africa influenced by Indian monsoon variability and ITCZ migration.	-6.71378	-6.71378	29.832616	29.832616	Tierney, J.E.; Russell, J.M.
Large temperature variability in the southern African tropics since the Last Glacial Maximum	-9.97667	-10.265	34.23	34.3183	Powers, L.A.; Johnson, T.C.; Werne, J.P.; Castañeda, I.S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damste, J.S.; Schouten, S.
Holocene climate and glacier variability at Hallet and Greyling Lakes, Chugach Mountains, south-central Alaska.	61.5	61.5	-146.2	-146.2	McKay, N.P.; Kaufman, D.S.
A Late Quaternary diatom record of tropical climatic history from Lake Titicaca (Peru and Bolivia)	-16.13	-16.13	-69.15	-69.15	Fritz, S.C.; Baker, P.A.; Seltzer, G.O.
Late Holocene storm-trajectory changes inferred from the oxygen isotope composition of lake diatoms, south Alaska.	60.95	60.95	-148.15	-148.15	Schiff, C.J.; Kaufman, D.S.; Wolfe, A.P.; Dodd, J.; Sharp, Z.
Carbonate deposition, Pyramid Lake subbasin, Nevada: 3. The use of 87Sr values in carbonate deposits (tufas) to determine the hydrologic state of paleolake systems	40	40	-120	-120	Benson, L.V.; Peterman, Z.; Kashgarian, M.; Rubin, M.
Utilizing physical sediment variability in glacier-fed lakes for continuous glacier reconstructions during the Holocene, northern Folgefonna, western Norway	60.35	60.25	6.45	6.98	Bakke, J.; Lie, O.; Nesje, A.; Olaf Dahl, S.; Paasche, O.
Solar variability and the levels of Lake Victoria, East Africa, during the last millenium	.3	.3	33.3333	33.3333	Stager, J.C.; Ryves, D.; Cumming, B.F.; Meeker, L.D.; Beer, J.
A 2000 year record of climate variations reconstructed from Haukadalsvatn, west Iceland.	65.051	65.051	-21.6305	-21.6305	Geirsdottir, A.; Miller, G.H.; Thordarson, T.; Olafsdottir, K.B.
Correlation of Late-Pleistocene lake level oscillations in Mono Lake, California, with North Atlantic climate events	38	38	-119	-119	Benson, L.V.; Lund, S.P.; Burdett, J.W.; Kashgarian, M.; Rose, T.P.; Smoot, J.P.; Schwartz, M.
Decadal-scale autumn temperature reconstruction back to AD 1580 inferred from the varved sediments of Lake Silvaplana (southeastern Swiss Alps).	46.45	46.45	9.8	9.8	Blass, A.; Bigler, C.; Grosjean, M.; Sturm, M.
A high resolution paleoclimate record spanning the past 25,000 years in southern East Africa	-9.97667	-10.265	34.23	34.3183	Johnson, T.C.; Brown, E.T.; McManus, J.F.; Barry, S.L.; Barker, P.
Little Ice Age drought in equatorial Africa: Intertropical Convergence Zone migrations and El Nino-Southern Oscillation variability	-.4167	-.4167	29.75	29.75	Russell, J.M.; Johnson, T.C.
Lateglacial and Holocene wet-dry cycles in southern Patagonia: chronology, sedimentology and geochemistry of a lacustrine record from Laguna Potrok Aike, Argentina.	-51.95	-51.95	-70.3833	-70.3833	Haberzettl, T.; Ohlendorf, C.; Zolitschka, B.
El Nino-like Climate Teleconnections in New England During the Late Pleistocene	41.72	41.72	-72.73	-72.73	Rittenour, T.M.
Century-scale paleoclimatic reconstructions from Moon Lake, a closed-basin lake in the northern Great Plains	46.8575	46.8575	-98.15833	-98.15833	Laird, K.; Fritz, S.C.; Grimm, E.C.; Mueller, P.G.
d13C-d18O covariance as a paleohydrological indicator for closed-basin lakes	38	38	-119	-119	Li, H-C.


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