GEOL 459/559 Quaternary Climate

laboratory exercises

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

reprints: class readings

• Zachos et al, 2001
• Rahmstorf, 2006
• Rahmstorf, 2002
• Raymo and Huybers, 2008
• Ravelo et al., 2004
• Sigman et al., 2010

data resources

• 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