QUEST Theme 2 - Quaternary QUEST (Regulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide on glacial-interglacial timescales and its coupling to climate change) Project

Introduction

Over the last million years, Earth has experienced a sequence of temperature oscillations between glacial and interglacial states, linked to variations in the Earth's orbit around the sun. These climate oscillations were accompanied by changes in atmospheric CO2, but the fundamental reasons for this relationship are still unresolved.

This project team will compile a synthesis of palaeodata from sediments and ice cores, improve the synchronization of these records with each other, and use this greater understanding of the Earth's ancient atmosphere to improve Earth system models simulating climate over very long timescales.

Availability of data and file format

Data are stored in the BADC Quaternary QUEST project data archive.

The data filenames should follow the BADC File Name convention and the data file format should be NetCDF or NASA-Ames.

Access to data and information

Please refer to the QUEST Conditions of Access page for details of access restrictions.

Links

Quaternary QUEST website - http://researchpages.net/QQ/

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Who to contact

Quaternary QUEST is led by Prof Tim Lenton at UEA, with a team of 10 co-investigators at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Reading, Leeds, Bristol and Southampton and at UEA.

Each QUEST project will have a designated "data co-ordinator" to ensure good communication with the QUEST core team/BADC regarding data issues, and to ensure that each project meets its data provision obligations. The data co-ordinator for the Quaternary QUEST project is to be determined.

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