External Databases
Paleo data
The list below should serve as a useful starting point for your online paleo data search. Please help us to improve the list. Send your relevant data links to Saadia Iqbal Leal.
WDC
World Data Center System, USA
NOAA / WDC for Paleoclimatology
This site is available in Spanish as well.
PANGAEA / WDC-MARE
Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data
MEDIAS
Governmental non-profit organization for research development on global change particularly in Mediterranean Basin and Subtropical Africa
Thematic Databases
> Aquatic Sciences
(Corals, Diatoms, Foraminifera, Lakes, Oceans, Ostracodes)
> Atmospheric Sciences
(Astronomy and Atmosphere, Climate, Modeling)
> Historical Data
(Documentary Data/Archeology)
> Terrestrial Sciences
(Borehole Data, Dendrochronology, Fire, Geology/Geomorphology/Paleoenvironment, Insects, Paleobiology/Paleontology, River Runoff, Snow and Ice, Soils, Tephra)
Aquatic Sciences
Corals
ReefBase
West Michigan Marine Aquarium Club Coral Database
Diatoms
Canadian Diatom Database
Diatom Paleolimnology Data Cooperative
European Diatom Database
Foraminifera
MARIN PERTUIS database
PLANKRANGE database
South Florida Ecosystem History Project
Lakes
China Lake Database
LakeNet
National Lacustrine Core Repository
World Lakes Database
Oceans
Arctic Ocean Sciences Board
British Oceanographic Data Centre
CCHDO/CLIVAR - Hydrographic Data Assembly Center
CLIVAR Data
Deep Sea Drilling Project
Delphi Project
Global Ocean Data Analysis Project
Global Ocean Observing System
Global Plankton Database
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
Japan Oceanographic Data Centre
Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
Marine Seismic Data Center
NOAA/NDGC - Marine Geology and Geophysics
North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES)
USGS - Coastal & Marine Geology InfoBank
University of Washington Quaternary Isotope Laboratory data sets
Ostracodes
Arctic Ostracode Database
North American Non-Marine Ostracode Database (NANODe)
Astronomy and Atmosphere
British Atmospheric Data Centre
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg
NASA Astronomical Data Center
Solar Influences Data Analysis Center
Space Science and Engineering Data Center
World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases
Climate
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis
Climate Change Research Centre
Climate Impacts LINK Project
Hadley Centre
IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library
IPCC Data Distribution Centre
Links to atmospheric and oceanographic data sources
Links to climate data and information sites
Modeling
IPCC Data Distribution Centre
Links to modeling and data analysis sources
World Data Center for Climate
Environment isotopes
Arctic LTER database
Environmental Isotope Database
Global Network of Isotopes in Precipitation (GNIP)
Global Seawater Oxygen-18 Database
Isotope Hydrology Section Database
National Atmospheric Deposition Program
National Institute of Standards and Technology Database
Phanerozoic and Precambrian Isotope Databases
Stable Water Isotope Intercomparison Group (SWING)
USGS Isotope Studies in Animal Ecology
Historical Data
Documentary Data/Archeology
China Data Center
Links to archeological information sources
National Archeological Database
Norwegian Historical Data Centre
Social Sciences Data Collection
World Data Center for Human Interactions in the Environment
Terrestrial Sciences
Borehole Data
Borehole Temperatures and Climate Reconstruction Database
Links to USGS borehole data
Dendrochronology
Euro-dendro
Dendrochronology GIS
International Tree-Ring Data Bank
Fire
International Multiproxy Paleofire Database
USFA National Fire Data Center
Geology/Geomorphology/Paleoenvironment
Alaska PaleoGlacier Atlas
Antarctic Geology and Geophysics Databases
ASARDES MultiProxy Database
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS)
GEOSCOPE
Geospatial and Statistical Data Center
Global land environments since the last interglacial
National Geoscience Database of Iran
Insects
Bugs database
Paleobiology/Paleontology
Biostratigraphy
CHRONOS
FAUNMAP
New Mexico Paleo-Database
Paleobiology Database
Paleobotany
ACE - Palaeovegetation FTI
Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas (APSA)
Canadian pollen database
New England Lakes Plant Macrofossil Database
North American Plant Macrofossil Database
North American Modern Pollen Database
Northern Eurasian Palaeoecological Database
PMIP and Biome 6000
River Runoff
Global Runoff Data Centre
Snow and Ice
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Australian Antarctic Data Centre Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service (CADIS) International Polar Year (IPY) GCMD Portal
Links to Arctic Ocean Information Sources
National Snow and Ice Data Center
World Data Centre for Glaciology
World Glacier Monitoring Service
Soils
European Soil Data Center
European Soil Database
Soil Erosion Data
Organic carbon in topsoils
Heavy metals in topsoils
Tephra
Alaskan tephra data
Large Volume Explosive Eruption Database
Mono-Inyo Craters Database
Tephrabase
Volcanoes Database
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