Dataset
QUEST Quaternary: FAMOUS glacial cycle model data
Abstract
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 contains FAMOUS (FAst Met Office/UK Universities Simulator) glacial cycle model data from 150,000 years ago to present.
The 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 have narrowed the field of ocean processes that could have caused glacial CO2 drawdown.
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Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/quest.pdf. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
| Data lineage: |
Data provided by Prof Tim Lenton at the University of East Anglia for archiving at the BADC. |
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Not known.
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| File Format: |
Data are netCDF formatted
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Process overview
| Title | FAMOUS Climate model |
| Abstract | FAMOUS (FAst Met Office/UK Universities Simulator) is an ocean-atmosphere general circulation model of low resolution, based on version 4.5 of the UK MetOffice Unified Model. |
| Input Description | None |
| Output Description | None |
| Software Reference | None |
No variables found.
Temporal Range
0001-01-01T00:01:15
2008-11-30T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
90.0000° |
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-180.0000° |
180.0000° |
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-90.0000° |