Reconstructed record of the global average temperature and atmospheric CO2 concentration over the last 400.000 years

Methodology

NAME OF DATA SET: Vostok Ice Core Data for 420,000 Years LAST UPDATE: 11/2001 (Original Receipt by WDC Paleo). IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2001-076 SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Petit, J.R., et al., 2001, Vostok Ice Core Data for 420,000 Years, IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series #2001-076. NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. Data published at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore/antarctica/vostok/vostok_co2.html

See further: Petit, J.R., Jouzel, J., Raynaud, D., Barkov, N.I., Barnola, J.-M., Basile, I., Benders, M., Chappellaz, J., Davis, M., Delayque, G., Delmotte, M., Kotlyakov, V.M., Legrand, M., Lipenkov, V.Y., Lorius, C., Pepin, L., Ritz, C., Saltzman, E. and Stievenard, M. (1999): 'Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica', Nature, 399, pp. 429-36.

Additional information

Geographical coverage note: World