Abstract
Climate Explorer (www.climexp.knmi.nl) is a web-based application for climatic research that is managed by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) and contains a comprehensive collection of climatic data sets and analysis tools. One of its fields of application is high-resolution paleoclimatology. We show how Climate Explorer can be used to explore and download available instrumental climate data and derived time series, to examine the climatic signal in uploaded high-resolution paleoclimate time series, and to investigate the temporal and spatial characteristics of climate reconstructions. We further demonstrate the value of Climate Explorer for high-resolution paleoclimate research using a dendroclimatic data set from the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 3-13 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Tree-Ring Research |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2013 |
Keywords
- KNMI Climate Explorer
- climate data
- composite analysis
- correlation map
- dendroclimatology
- paleoclimatology
- spectral analysis
- time-series analysis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Forestry
- Geology
- Atmospheric Science
- Palaeontology