Palaeoclimate data hold the unique promise of providing a long-term
perspective on climate change and as such can serve as an important
benchmark for climate models. However, palaeoclimate data have generally
been archived with insufficient standardisation and metadata to allow for
transparent and consistent uncertainty assessment in an automated way.
Thanks to improved computation capacity, transient palaeoclimate simulations
are now possible, calling for data products containing multi-parameter time
series rather than information on a single parameter for a single time
slice. Efforts are underway to simulate a complete glacial–interglacial
cycle using general circulation models (https://www.palmod.de/, last access: 6 May 2020), and to confront these
simulations with palaeoclimate data, we have compiled a multi-parameter
marine palaeoclimate data synthesis that contains time series spanning 0 to
130 000 years ago. We present the first version of the data product that
focuses exclusively on time series for which a robust chronolog...

Integrating palaeoclimate time series with rich metadata for uncertainty modelling: strategy and documentation of the PalMod 130k marine palaeoclimate data synthesis

10.5194/essd-12-1053-2020