Stenni BCa' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Venezia, 30172, Italy.
Syrykh LHerzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Research Laboratory of the Environmental management, St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia.
Tarrats PUniversitat de Barcelona, Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Secció Ecologia, Barcelona, 08028, Spain.
Taylor KNational University of Ireland Galway, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, Galway, H91 TK33, Ireland.
van den Bos VVictoria University of Wellington, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand.
Velle GNORCE Norwegian Research Centre, LFI, Bergen, 5008, Norway.
Wahl EUS National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Centers for Environmental Information, Boulder, CO, 80305, USA.
Walker IUniversity of British Columbia, Department of Biology; Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences, Kelowna, British Columbia, V1V 1V7, Canada.
Wilmshurst JLandcare Research, Ecosystems and Conservation, Lincoln, 7640, New Zealand.
Zhang EChinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Nanjing, 210008, China.
Zhilich SInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.
English
A comprehensive database of paleoclimate records is needed to place recent warming into the longer-term context of natural climate variability. We present a global compilation of quality-controlled, published, temperature-sensitive proxy records extending back 12,000 years through the Holocene. Data were compiled from 679 sites where time series cover at least 4000 years, are resolved at sub-millennial scale (median spacing of 400 years or finer) and have at least one age control point every 3000 years, with cut-off values slackened in data-sparse regions. The data derive from lake sediment (51%), marine sediment (31%), peat (11%), glacier ice (3%), and other natural archives. The database contains 1319 records, including 157 from the Southern Hemisphere. The multi-proxy database comprises paleotemperature time series based on ecological assemblages, as well as biophysical and geochemical indicators that reflect mean annual or seasonal temperatures, as encoded in the database. This database can be used to reconstruct the spatiotemporal evolution of Holocene temperature at global to regional scales, and is publicly available in Linked Paleo Data (LiPD) format.