Available Data from the Ice Core Paleoclimatology Group

Ice Core Data Archived at NOAA-NCEI:

These data sets are available from NOAA's NCEI data page through the Ice Core Search Engine (use the Advanced Search -> Investigators -> Thompson, L.G.)

• Byrd Station (Antarctica): Microparticle data
• Camp Century (Greenland): Microparticle data
• Dasuopu glacier, Himalaya: 1000 year δ¹⁸O, dust, anion and accumulation data (decadal avgs)
• Dunde ice cap, Guliya Ice Cap, Dasuopu Glacier: Decadally averaged δ¹⁸O data
• Dunde ice cap: 1500 year δ¹⁸O, dust, anion, and accumulation data
• Guliya ice cap: Ice thickness data
• Guliya ice cap: 1992, depth averages of δ¹⁸O, dust, and anion data; 132 kyr δ¹⁸O, dust, and anion data (400 yr avgs); and 2 kyr δ¹⁸O, dust, anion and accumulation data (decadal avgs)
• Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: δ¹⁸O, major ions, and dust data and descriptions
• Lewis Glacier, Kenya: microparticle data
• Nevado Huascarán, Peru: δ¹⁸O, NO₃^-, layer thickness, and particle data (100 yr avgs)
• Prince of Wales, Ellesmere Island: 1850 year ice core δ¹⁸O data
• Puruogangri ice cap, Tibet: 7000 year isotope and geochemical data
• Puruogangri ice cap, Tibet: 500 year trace element data
• Quelccaya ice cap, Peru: 1983, ice cap microparticle, δ¹⁸O, and accumulation data
• Quelccaya ice cap, Peru: snow pit microparticle data (1976-1978)
• Quelccaya ice cap, Peru: 1200 year trace element data
• Quelccaya ice cap, Peru: 2003, 1800 year δ¹⁸O, dust, and major ions
• Quelccaya ice cap, Peru: Accumulation, PAGES “Long-Term climate Reconstruction and Dynamics of South America Version”
• Quelccaya ice cap, Peru: δ¹⁸O, PAGES “Long-Term climate Reconstruction and Dynamics of South America Version”
• Quelccaya and Huascarán, Peru: snow pit and shallow core δ¹⁸O data from 1974 to 2015 (listed incorrectly as “Tropical Peruvian ice core 50 year oxygen isotope data”)
• Sajama ice cap, Bolivia: δ¹⁸O, major anions, and microparticle data
• Siple Station, Antarctica: 550 year oxygen isotope data
• Windy Dome, Franz Josef Land: 850 year ice core δ¹⁸O and melt data

These data sets are available from NOAA's NCEI data page through the Ice Core Search Engine (use the Advanced Search -> Investigators -> Thompson, E.M.)

• Bruce Plateau, Antarctic Peninsula: 100 year ice core δ¹⁸O and accumulation
• Plateau Remote, Antarctica: 2000 year ice core δ¹⁸O data

Greenland Ice Core Data:

Data from shallow cores collected in Greenland during 1997 and 1998 as part of the NSF – NASA sponsored PARCA Program

1997 PARCA cores: (density, accumulation, stratigraphy only)

• Data File
• Readme file

1997 PARCA cores: (all data)

• Readme file
• Core 7147
• Core 7247
• Core 7551
• Core 7653-1
• Core 7653-2
• Core NASA East Core 1
• Core NASA East Core 2
• Core North Dye 3 Core A
• Core North Dye 3 Core B
• Core South Dome Core 1
• Core South Dome Core 2
• Core South Tunu Core 1
• Core South Tunu Core 2
• Core South Tunu Core 3

1998 PARCA cores: (density, accumulation, stratigraphy only)

• Data file
• Readme file

1998 PARCA cores: (all data)

• Readme file
• Core 6345
• Core 6348
• Core 6642-2
• Core 6745
• Core 6839
• Core 6841
• Core 6938
• Core 6939
• Core 6941
• Core 6943
• Core 6945-1
• Core 7145
• Core 7245
• Core 7249
• Core 7345
• Core 7347

1998 Dye 2 (Raven): (density and stratigraphy data)

• Readme file
• Density and Stratigraphy

1998 Dye 2 (Raven): All data for Core A and Core B

• Readme file
• Core A: All data
• Core B: All data

Data from Papua Indonesia:

Rainfall Isotope Data

• Readme file
• Data File

Data from Bruce Plateau, Antarctic Peninsula:

Annual Accumulation and Annual Average Oxygen Isotopic Ratio: 2009 - 1900 CE

• Readme file
• Data File
• Link to data archived at the NOAA National Climate Data Center

Additional Data from Older Cores:

Dunde 1989: Core 1, δ¹⁸O depth averages

• Data File