The aims of BIOME 6000 are to:
- create fully-documented pollen and plant macrofossil data sets for 6000 and 18,000 years before present (yr B.P.)
- construct global maps of biomes for these time periods, using a standard objective biomisation technique based on plant functional types (PFTs).
The WDC for Paleoclimatology archives some of the reconstructions resulting from BIOME 6000:
-
BIOME 6000 Data Release 1 in
Microsoft Excel or
ASCII text format,
and the
Data Description
from the WDC Paleo archive.
Also see the MPI BIOME 6000 Page. - Cheddadi et al. European 6K Climate Reconstruction and Description
- Farrera et al. Last Glacial Maximum Tropical Terrestrial Data Synthesis:
- Mean annual temperature difference
- Maximum mean temperature of the coldest month difference
- Mean mean temperature of the coldest month difference
- Minimum mean temperature of the coldest month difference
- Plant available moisture difference
- Runoff difference
- Mean temperature of the coldest month difference at modern sea level
- Data Description
- Guiot et al. European 6K Surface Conditions Reconstruction and Description
(image above left)- Hoelzmann et al. African 6K Surface Condition Reconstructions
and Description
