Last Interglacial summer air temperature observations for the Arctic

These 21 Last Interglacial (LIG) summer surface air temperature (SSAT) observations were compiled to assess LIG Arctic sea ice (Guarino et al 2020). Twenty of the observations were also previously used in the IPCC-AR5 report. Each observation is thought to be of summer LIG air temperature anomaly relative to present day and is located in the circum-Arctic region. All sites are from north of 51N. There are 7 terrestrial based temperature records; 8 lacustrine records; 2 marine pollen-based records; and 3 ice core records included in the original compilation. This compilation includes 1 additional ice core record.

This work was funded by NERC standard research grant nos. NE/P013279/1 and NE/P009271/1.

Date (Creation): 2021-12-14

Date (Revision): 2021-12-14

Date (Publication): 2021-12-14

Date (released): 2021-12-14

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Unique resource identifier: https://doi.org/10.5285/9ab58d27-596a-472c-a13e-2dcd68612082

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Other citation details: Please cite this item as: Guarino, M., & Sime, L. (2022). Last Interglacial summer air temperature observations for the Arctic (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/9ab58d27-596a-472c-a13e-2dcd68612082

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Status: Completed

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British Antarctic Survey	Guarino, Maria Vittoria		Author
British Antarctic Survey	Sime, Louise		Author
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre		PDCServiceDesk@bas.ac.uk	Point of contact

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Arctic
Last Interglacial
ice-free Arctic
sea ice
summer surface temperature

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Circum-Arctic region Northern Hemisphere

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Supplemental Information: It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.

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Date (Publication): 2008-11-12

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Statement: Methodology:

Locations for each observation are provided. Whilst the exact timing of the peak Arctic Last Interglacial warmth (represented by these observations) has not yet been definitively determined, and is reasonable to assume that these measurements are approximately synchronous across the Arctic during the Last Interglacial, it is not clear that the peak warmth occurs at the same time for the whole of the Northern Hemisphere.

For consistency with modelled data presented by Guarino et al 2020 , temperature anomalies computed against present day conditions (i.e. 1961-1990 baseline) were corrected to take into account a 0.4 K of global warming between preindustrial (1850) and present day (1961-1990) conditions, thus the quoted values values differ slightly (+0.4 K) from the original datasets so that they represent temperature anomalies relative to the preindustrial era.

This is dataset is a compilation. Please refer to original paper for data lineage and methodology.

CAPE Last Interglacial Project Members. Last Interglacial Arctic warmth confirms polar amplification of climate change, Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 25, Issues 13-14, 2006, Pages 1383-1400, ISSN 0277-3791, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.01.033.

IPCC. Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. [Stocker, T.F. and Qin, D and Plattner, G and Tignor, M and Allen, S.K. and Boschung, J and Nauels, A and Xia, Y and Bex, V and Midgley, P.M (eds.)]. Tech. Rep. 5, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA (2013).

Kaspar, F., Kuhl, N., Cubasch, U., and Litt, T. (2005), A model-data comparison of European temperatures in the Eemian interglacial, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L11703, doi:10.1029/2005GL022456.

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Most of the site temperatures are presented with one standard deviation estimates of uncertainty. However for 9 sites, the standard deviation of the temperature data was not available, a standard deviation of +-0.5 K was used to account for this missing uncertainty: this is the smallest standard deviation found in any proxy record across all sites, and is thus as a conservative estimation of the uncertainty associated to proxy data. See Guarino et al 2020 for further information.

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