QUEST Quaternary: Marine isotope and glacial cycle model data (150,000 years ago to present)

• Published by: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
• Last updated: 12 September 2016
• Topic: Environment
• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

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

This dataset collection contains glacial and isotope model data.

Over the last million years, the 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 aimed to 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. A combined long-term data synthesis and modelling approach has helped to constrain some key mechanisms responsible for glacial-interglacial CO2 change, and Quaternary QUEST narrowed the field of ocean processes that could have caused glacial CO2 drawdown.

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
Quaternary QUEST:Regulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide on glacial-interglacial timescales and its coupling to climate change	N/A	12 September 2016	Not available
QUEST Final Report	N/A	12 September 2016	Not available
Quaternary QUEST project website	N/A	12 September 2016	Not available
Dataset Homepage	N/A	12 September 2016	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2017-07-17
• Access contraints: Restricted; Access groups: quest-res; Licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/quest.pdf
• Harvest GUID: 4b26f21f-79ec-4ee9-beda-49fb0082d484
• Extent: Latitude: 90.0° to -90.0°
• Extent: Longitude: -180.0° to 180.0°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
• Dataset reference date: 2008-12-10T03:15:43 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 2008-12-10T03:15:43 (creation)
• Frequency of update: asNeeded
• Responsible party: (ceda_officer, author); British Atmospheric Data Centre (publisher, distributer, point_of_contact, metadata_owner, curator, custodian); Polaris House (author); University of East Anglia (author)
• ISO 19139 resource type: series
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
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Restricted; Access groups: quest-res; Licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/quest.pdf