Paleogeography and Paleoclimatology

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    • 22 pages found in Paleogeography and Paleoclimatology:

    ALP-IMP Research Project
    Multi-centennial climate variability in the Alps. Compilation project of instrumental data and proxy information from tree-ring records, isotopic ice core records, and glacier variability records.
    http://www.zamg.ac.at/ALP-IMP/

    Atlantis and Paleogeography
    Known paleogeography is compared to the geography of Plato's Atlantis. Written for a general audience it sums up relevant facts including from recent research, and illustrates with video and multimedia.
    http://atlantisinireland.com/

    Caribbean Tectonic Reconstructions
    Reconstructions of the Caribbean at various times in the geologic past (past 200 million years)
    http://www.fiu.edu/orgs/caribgeol/Caribreconstr.html

    Evolution of the Colorado River and its Tributaries
    Article introducing a model for the evolution of the Colorado River and the origin of the Grand Canyon.
    http://www.durangobill.com/Paleorivers_preface.html

    Geology Resources at Colorado University
    Paleogeography "movies" of the southwestern United States and the western hemisphere based upon maps made at Northern Arizona by Ron Blakely.
    http://www.colorado.edu/GeolSci/Resources/

    Global Analysis, Interpretation, and Modelling
    The goal of GAIM is to advance the study of the coupled dynamics of the Earth system using as tools both data and models.
    http://gaim.sr.unh.edu/

    Lithologic, Paleogeographic, and Paleocurrent Maps of the World
    Offers images of time slices of different ages of the Earth.
    http://geology.swau.edu/

    Models and Observations to Test Climate Feedbacks
    The MOTIF project proposes a coordinated approach to use past states of the climate system as a demanding test of the capabilities and reliability of the latest generation of coupled ocean-atmosphere-vegetation general circulation models (OAVGCMs).
    http://motif.lsce.ipsl.fr/

    Network for Ice Sheet and Climate Evolution
    NICE aims to predict more confidently the climate evolution over the next centuries to millennia and to identify the causes of the climatic changes and the uncertainties of climate predictions.
    http://nice.ipsl.jussieu.fr/

    NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
    Paleoclimate data, applied research, and education. Features an interface to the World Data Center for paleoclimatology, offering access to original scientific data.
    http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html

    Ocean Drilling Program - JANUS Database
    Database includes paleontological, lithostratigraphic, chemical, physical, sedimentological, and geophysical data for ocean sediments and hard rocks.
    http://www-odp.tamu.edu/database/

    ODSN Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service
    Ocean Drilling Stratigraphic Network (ODNS) interactive tool to calculate platetectonic reconstructions of any age back to 150 My.
    http://www.odsn.de/odsn/services/paleomap/paleomap.html

    PAGES
    International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) on paleoclimatology.
    http://www.pages.unibe.ch/

    Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project
    Coordinates and encourages the systematic study of atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) and to assess their ability to simulate large changes of climate such as those that occurred in the distant past.
    http://pmip.lsce.ipsl.fr/

    Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project Phase II
    This project studying the role of climate feedbacks arising for the different climate subsystems (atmosphere, ocean, land surface, sea ice and land ice) and evaluating the capability of state of the art climate models to reproduce climate states that are radically different from those of today.
    http://pmip2.lsce.ipsl.fr/

    Paleoclimatology and Climate System Dynamics
    Introduction to the field by Jonathan T. Overpeck. Provided by the American Geophysical Union.
    http://www.agu.org/revgeophys/overpe00/overpe00.html

    Paleogeography of the Southwestern US
    Maps showing period-by-period reconstructions of the paleogeography of Southwest United States.
    http://vishnu.glg.nau.edu/rcb/paleogeogwus.html

    Paleomap
    Virtual reality reconstructions illustrating the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1100 million years.
    http://www.scotese.com/

    Pangea Coring Workshop
    Announcement and description of an international workshop on a climatic, biotic, and tectonic transect, pole-to-pole, across the early Mesozoic supercontinent, June 1999. Updated regularly.
    http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~polsen/nbcp/pangeafinalreport.html

    Plate Movements and Climate Change
    Student exercise from Karen L. Bice of Pennsylvania State University.
    http://www.beloit.edu/sepm/Earth_Works/Plate_Movements.html

    Plate Tectonics - Online Data and Software Tools
    Data access and software for computing plate tectonic, paleomagnetism, marine gravity anomalies provided by the Istituto Tecnico Industriale E. Molinari, Milan.
    http://www.itis-molinari.mi.it/Geo.html

    Quaternary Palynology Research by Pim de Klerk
    Presentation of research projects involving pollen analysis for the study of environmental and climatic changes from late Pleistocene to present, with main focus on northern Germany.
    http://freenet-homepage.de/pimdeklerk

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