# Global Database of Borehole Temperatures and Climate Reconstructions - UK-CLITHEROE #--------------------------------------------------------------- # World Data Service for Paleoclimatology, Boulder # and # NOAA Paleoclimatology Program # National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) #--------------------------------------------------------------- # # NOTE: Please cite Publication, and Online_Resource and date accessed when using these data. # If there is no publication information, please cite Investigators, Title, and Online_Resource and date accessed. # # Online_Resource: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/1001084 # Online_Resource: http://www.earth.lsa.umich.edu/climate/RECONSTRUCTION/UK-CLITHEROE.html # # Archive: Borehole # # Parameter_Keywords: reconstruction #------------------------- # Contribution_Date # Date: 2016-10-16 #------------------------- # Title # Study_Name: Global Database of Borehole Temperatures and Climate Reconstructions - UK-CLITHEROE #------------------------- # Investigators # Investigators: Huang, S.; Pollack, H.N.; Shen, P.Y. #------------------------- # Description_Notes_and_Keywords # Description: This project has as its goal the design, assembly, analysis and interpretation of geothermal observations on # continents relevant to understanding the nature and causes of climate change over the past five centuries. The project was # inititated by the Geothermal Laboratory of the University of Michigan, USA. Important collaborations have been developed # with the Geophysical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and with a working group of the International Heat Flow # Commission of IASPEI. Funding for this project has come from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National # Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the International Geological Correlation Program, and the Czech - U.S. Science and # Technology Program. The principal components of the database are: # (1) Basic geothermal observations from field surveys and laboratory measurements, principally comprising borehole # temperature logs and thermophysical properties. This section includes data only from boreholes at least 200 m deep. The # data listed are restricted to the range 20-600 meters. Data above 20 m have been omitted because they include annual # variability, and data below 600 m have not been included because they contain no information about the past 500 # years.Quality control measures have occasionally required the deletion of other data within the 20-600 m range. # (2) A five-century ground surface temperature history derived for each site by a standardized inversion procedure # operating on the basic observations. The derived history is presented as century-long temperature trends for each of the # past five centuries. This representation emphasizes longer term variations of the climate history, and thus is # complementary to high resolution proxies such as tree rings, ice cores, corals and lake sediments. # (3) The name of the person who can be contacted to learn more about the data and the site. This is either the name of the # original investigator who made the observations, or the name of a regional or national data compiler. Some data remain # proprietary, and therefore are not accessible directly from this database. Database users desiring access to these data # should request the data directly from the person listed as the data contact. A list of investigators engaged in climate # studies involving geothermal data can be found at the original web site of this database at the University of Michigan. # # Updated version of dataset submitted by Huang in October 2016. #-------------------- # Publication # Authors: Huang, S., Pollack, H. N., and Shen, P.Y. # Published_Date_or_Year: 2000-02-17 # Published_Title: Temperature trends over the past five centuries reconstructed from borehole temperatures # Journal_Name: Nature # Volume: 403 # Edition: # Issue: # Pages: 756-758 # DOI: 10.1038/35001556 # Abstract: For an accurate assessment of the relative roles of natural variability and anthropogenic influence in the Earth's climate, reconstructions of past temperatures from the pre-industrial as well as the industrial period are essential. But instrumental records are typically available for no more than the past 150 years. Therefore reconstructions of pre-industrial climate rely principally on traditional climate proxy records, each with particular strengths and limitations in representing climatic variability. Subsurface temperatures comprise an independent archive of past surface temperature changes that is complementary to both the instrumental record and the climate proxies. Here we use present-day temperatures in 616 boreholes from all continents except Antarctica to reconstruct century-long trends in temperatures over the past 500 years at global, hemispheric and continental scales. The results confirm the unusual warming of the twentieth century revealed by the instrumental record6, but suggest that the cumulative change over the past five centuries amounts to about 1 K, exceeding recent estimates from conventional climate proxies. The strength of temperature reconstructions from boreholes lies in the detection of long-term trends, complementary to conventional climate proxies, but to obtain a complete picture of past warming, the differences between the approaches need to be investigated in detail. #---------------------- # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: US National Science Foundation # Grant: 1202673 #---------------------- # Site_Information # Site_Name: UK-CLITHEROE # Location: United Kingdom # Northernmost_Latitude: 53.86 # Southernmost_Latitude: 53.86 # Easternmost_Longitude: -2.37 # Westernmost_Longitude: -2.37 # Elevation: #------------------------- # Data_Collection # Collection_Name: UK-CLITHEROE-borehole # Earliest_Year: 1500 # Most_Recent_Year: 1986 # Time_Unit: AD # Core_Length: # Notes: Data Contact: K.E. Rollin (UK) # Pre-1500 Baseline GST (oC): 8.426 # Date (Century) Rate of GST Change(K/100a) # 16th 0.435 # 17th 0.445 # 18th 0.316 # 19th -0.306 # 20th -1.622 # Date of logging (Year): 1985.5 # Thermal Conductivity (W/m/K): 2.02 # Geothermal Gradient (K/km): 22.96 # #------------------------- # Chronology_Information # Chronology: #------------------------- # Variables # # Data variables follow (marked with '##') # Variables list: shortname-tab- 9 components: what, material, error, units, seasonality, archive, detail, method, Temperature for Character or Numeric data ## depth_m depth,,, m,,,below surface,,N ## temp_meas temperature,,,degrees Celsius,,borehole,measured,,N #------------------------- # Data: # Missing Values: NA depth_m temp_meas 39.70 9.760 42.75 9.840 45.80 9.900 48.86 9.960 51.91 10.020 54.96 10.080 58.02 10.160 61.07 10.240 64.12 10.320 67.18 10.380 70.23 10.450 73.28 10.520 76.34 10.580 79.39 10.650 82.44 10.720 85.50 10.790 88.55 10.870 91.61 10.940 94.66 11.020 97.71 11.080 100.77 11.150 103.82 11.220 106.87 11.320 109.93 11.370 112.98 11.440 116.03 11.510 119.09 11.570 122.14 11.630 125.19 11.700 128.25 11.780 131.30 11.850 134.36 11.910 137.41 11.980 140.46 12.040 143.52 12.090 146.57 12.170 149.62 12.220 152.68 12.280 155.73 12.330 158.78 12.390 161.84 12.450 164.89 12.500 167.94 12.550 171.00 12.610 174.05 12.660 177.10 12.710 180.16 12.770 183.21 12.840 186.26 12.890 192.37 13.000 195.43 13.050 198.48 13.110 201.53 13.180 204.59 13.240 207.64 13.310 210.69 13.370 213.75 13.450 216.80 13.520 219.85 13.600 222.91 13.680 225.96 13.750 229.01 13.820 232.07 13.900 235.12 13.960 238.17 14.030 241.23 14.100 244.28 14.170 247.34 14.240 250.39 14.310 253.44 14.370 256.50 14.450 259.55 14.520 262.60 14.570 265.66 14.640 268.71 14.710 271.76 14.780 274.82 14.850 277.87 14.910 280.92 14.960 283.98 15.010 287.03 15.060 290.08 15.120 293.14 15.170 293.96 15.200