Concept information
Preferred term
GCCHP
Definition
- USGS conducts research to develop high quality records of past climates and environments and provide synoptic reconstructions of past climate conditions from evidence preserved in the geologic record. Our emphasis is on the late Cenozoic with greatest effort expended on the Pliocene and Quaternary. Our research is designed to determine the natural range of climate variability on time scales ranging from interannual to thousands of years; to identify and characterize conditions during intervals of rapid change; to determine the response of natural systems, climate- sensitive regions, and ecotones to past change, especially abrupt change; and to develop regional to global scale paleoenvironmental reconstructions for key intervals and events of the past. Current research Projects: 1. Western U.S. Paleoclimate 2. Deep Ocean Temperature and Sea Level 3. Weatern Arctic Paleoceanography 4. Last Interglacial-Timing and Extent 5. Yukon Basin 6. Pliocene Research, Interpretation, and Synoptic Mapping (PRISM) For more information, link to "http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/pub/info/elements/climate_history.html" (en)
Broader concept
- G - I (en)
URI
https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/176d9f9a-b586-477d-8ddf-607daddd8bf1
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