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QUEST Quaternary: Marine isotope and glacial cycle model data (150,000 years ago to present)
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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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2008-12-10T03:15:43
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2008-12-10T03:15:43
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 33a39f647824bbd542c4ce9b88c9e9fd
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown
- Update scope
- series
- Keywords
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- QUEST
- Quaternary
- carbon dioxide
- climate change
- glaciation
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Usage limitations for the data within this collection is set at the individual dataset level. Please refer to the licence details of each underlying dataset.
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 0001-01-01T00:01:15
- End date
- 2008-11-30T23:59:59
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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Quaternary QUEST project website
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- Resource Locator
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Quaternary QUEST:Regulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide on glacial-interglacial timescales and its coupling to climate change
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- Resource Locator
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QUEST Final Report
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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Quaternary QUEST project website
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Quaternary QUEST:Regulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide on glacial-interglacial timescales and its coupling to climate change
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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QUEST Final Report
No further details.
- Quality Scope
- series
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 33a39f647824bbd542c4ce9b88c9e9fd XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Resource type
- series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Metadata Date
- 2023-11-28T01:09:14
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
