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.

Date (Publication): 2008-12-10T03:15:43

Date (Creation): 2008-12-10T03:15:43

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/33a39f647824bbd542c4ce9b88c9e9fd

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 33a39f647824bbd542c4ce9b88c9e9fd

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Crowhurst, Simon	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Hoogakker, Babette	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Lenton, Tim	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Oliver, Kevin	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	et. al,	Unavailable	Author
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Series

Keywords

QUEST
Quaternary
carbon dioxide
climate change
glaciation

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Other constraints: All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 0001-01-01T00:01:15

End date: 2008-11-30T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/33a39f647824bbd542c4ce9b88c9e9fd	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://researchpages.net/QQ/	Quaternary QUEST project website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://quest.bris.ac.uk/research/themes/Quaternary.html	Quaternary QUEST:Regulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide on glacial-interglacial timescales and its coupling to climate change

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://quest.bris.ac.uk/publications/Quest%20Final%20Report/QUEST_FinalReport_Final_July2011.pdf	QUEST Final Report

Hierarchy level: Series

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Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.

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File identifier: 33a39f647824bbd542c4ce9b88c9e9fd XML

Metadata language: English

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Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2026-03-09T03:27:51

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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