GEOL 459/559 Quaternary Climate

laboratory exercises

• world ocean lab
• global climate lab
• sea floor and ice core lab

reprints: class readings

• Zachos et al, 2001
• Rahmstorf, 2006
• Clark, Alley, and Pollard, 1999
• Rahmstorf, 2002
• Pierrehumbert, 2000

reprints: additional lab references

• Lisiecki and Raymo, Plio-Pleistocene benthic del O18
• Prentice et al, Reconstructing biomes from palaeoecological data

reprints: classics

• The surface of the Ice Age Earth, 1976, CLIMAP members.
• Climatic changes of the last 18,000 years:Observations and model simulations, 1988, COHMAP members.
• Climatic changes in southern Conecticut recorded by pollen deposition at Rogers Lake, 1969, M.B. Davis.
• Chronology of fluctuating sea levels since the Triassic, 1987, Haq, Hardenbol, and Vail.
• Modeling the climatic response to orbital variations, 1980, J. Imbrie and J.Z. Imbrie.
• Global changes during the last 3 million years: Climatic controls and biotic responses, 1992, T. Webb and P.J. Bartlein

• IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library International Research Institute for Climate Prediction at Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.
• National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  • Paleoclimatology Program at the National Climatic Data Center
  • National Oceanographic Data Center
  • National Climate Data Center
  • homepage for the National Geophysical Data Center
• Dendrochronology resources at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center

additional reference resources