NOAA Paleoclimatology Software Resources


NCDC provides access to software packages for use on an "as-is" basis. We cannot provide any support nor can we guarantee the software's performance. We encourage authors of any software of interest to the paleoclimatology community to contribute their software for distribution on this page. For more detailed searching of this archive use our free text search page.

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2SAMPLES  A software code for estimating difference in location and scale between two climate data samples. DISCIPLINE KEYWORDS: Climatology and Atmospheric, Climatology, Paleoclimatology, Paleoenvironment. This resource description was produced with support from the NSF project entitled "EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences," (NSF ICER-1340301) under the direction of Kerstin A. Lehnert, Mark Uhen, John W. Williams, Christopher J. JenkinsMore Info
A Practical Guide to Wavelet Analysis  A software code for performing wavelet analysis on time series data, including significance and confidence testing. DISCIPLINE KEYWORDS: Climatology and Atmospheric, Climatology, Paleoclimatology, Paleoenvironment. This resource description was produced with support from the NSF project entitled "EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences," (NSF ICER-1340301) under the direction of Kerstin A. Lehnert, Mark Uhen, John W. Williams, Christopher J. JenkinsMore Info
acfMeko, D.M. Software that codes for an autocorrelation function and confidence limits. Code written in MatLab for another script, may require necessary call name substitution. DISCIPLINE KEYWORDS: Climatology and Atmospheric, paleoclimatology, climatology, paleoenvironment, dendrochronology SOFTWARE LANGUAGE: Matlab. This resource description was produced with support from the NSF project entitled "EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences," (NSF ICER-1340301) under the direction of Kerstin A. Lehnert, Mark Uhen, John W. Williams, Christopher J. JenkinsMore Info
AgeDepthPlot 1.08a  A software program that finds the optimum scaled sequence of events from multiple files of taxa events. Specific syntax instruction are included for ASCII TEXT file containing the data. For Mac OSX Intel and PPC Macs. DISCIPLINE KEYWORDS: Paleobiolology, stratigraphy, biostratigraphers, sedimentology, geology, geoscience, petrology SOFTWARE OS: Mac OS X, Intel, PPC Macs. This resource description was produced with support from the NSF project entitled "EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences," (NSF ICER-1340301) under the direction of Kerstin A. Lehnert, Mark Uhen, John W. Williams, Christopher J. JenkinsMore Info
akaikeMeko, D.M. Software that creates akaike information criterion for fitting AR models. Code written in MatLab for another script, may require necessary call name substitution. DISCIPLINE KEYWORDS: Climatology and Atmospheric, paleoclimatology, climatology, paleoenvironment, dendrochronology SOFTWARE LANGUAGE: Matlab. This resource description was produced with support from the NSF project entitled "EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences," (NSF ICER-1340301) under the direction of Kerstin A. Lehnert, Mark Uhen, John W. Williams, Christopher J. JenkinsMore Info
AM3  A modeling software including parameters such as aerosol-cloud interactions in climate and climate change, chemistry-climate feedbacks, land and ocean carbon cycles and their interactions with climate change, and decadal prediction. DISCIPLINE KEYWORDS: Climatology and Atmospheric, Climatology, Paleoclimatology, Paleoenvironment. This resource description was produced with support from the NSF project entitled "EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences," (NSF ICER-1340301) under the direction of Kerstin A. Lehnert, Mark Uhen, John W. Williams, Christopher J. JenkinsMore Info
AnalyseriesPaillard, D. A time series analysis software tool that transforms "data versus depth" records into "data versus age" records, and completes spectral analysis of paleo climatic records with respect to insolation, ice volume, and other climatic parameters. For Macintosh OS. DISCIPLINE KEYWORDS: Geochronolgy and Geomorphology, paleoecologist, paleoclimatology, climatology, glaciology, planetary science SOFTWARE OS: Mac OS X. This resource description was produced with support from the NSF project entitled "EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences," (NSF ICER-1340301) under the direction of Kerstin A. Lehnert, Mark Uhen, John W. Williams, Christopher J. JenkinsMore Info
ANOVA  A MatLab software code for two-factor (location and year) analysis-of-variance model for the calculation of climate anomalies, in which the reference interval is specified as the full length of the dataset. DISCIPLINE KEYWORDS: Climatology and Atmospheric, Climatology, Paleoclimatology, Paleoenvironment SOFTWARE LANGUAGE: Matlab. This resource description was produced with support from the NSF project entitled "EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences," (NSF ICER-1340301) under the direction of Kerstin A. Lehnert, Mark Uhen, John W. Williams, Christopher J. JenkinsMore Info
Aquatic Realtime Management System (ARMS)  A decision support software system to aid managers and operators of surface water bodies (reservoirs, lakes, rivers, estuaries, coastal oceans). Its purpose is to provide an automated software system that requires minimal maintenance to monitor and forecast the conditions of surface water resources, and to notify relevant staff of current conditions on a regular basis. DISCIPLINE KEYWORDS: Oceanography/Limnology, hydrology, hydrogeology, limnology, sedimentology, lacustrine, geochemistry,. This resource description was produced with support from the NSF project entitled "EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences," (NSF ICER-1340301) under the direction of Kerstin A. Lehnert, Mark Uhen, John W. Williams, Christopher J. JenkinsMore Info
ArandHowell, P. Software application for time series and spectral analysis. Functionality includes assigning time to depth from age model, interpolating data at an even time step, spectral and cross-spectral analysis, and data filtering. Updated 2012, requires Mac with Intel processor. DISCIPLINE KEYWORDS: Geochronolgy and Geomorphology, paleoenvironment, paleoclimateology SOFTWARE OS: Mac, Intel. This resource description was produced with support from the NSF project entitled "EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences," (NSF ICER-1340301) under the direction of Kerstin A. Lehnert, Mark Uhen, John W. Williams, Christopher J. JenkinsMore Info
ArfitSchneider, T. A MatLab software script package for estimating parameters of multivariate autoregressive (AR) models, diagnostic checking of fitted AR models, and analyzing Eigen modes of fitted AR models. Code written in MatLab for specific package, may require necessary call name substitution. DISCIPLINE KEYWORDS: Climatology and Atmospheric, paleoclimatology, climatology, paleoenvironment, dendrochronology SOFTWARE LANGUAGE: Matlab. This resource description was produced with support from the NSF project entitled "EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences," (NSF ICER-1340301) under the direction of Kerstin A. Lehnert, Mark Uhen, John W. Williams, Christopher J. JenkinsMore Info
arspectrumMeko, D.M. Software that creates the spectrum of an AR(1) or AR(2) process. Code written in MatLab for another script, may require necessary call name substitution. DISCIPLINE KEYWORDS: Climatology and Atmospheric, paleoclimatology, climatology, paleoenvironment, dendrochronology SOFTWARE LANGUAGE: Matlab. This resource description was produced with support from the NSF project entitled "EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences," (NSF ICER-1340301) under the direction of Kerstin A. Lehnert, Mark Uhen, John W. Williams, Christopher J. JenkinsMore Info
Atlantic Abyssal Circulation Model Code  A Fortran software code that has been run using F90, that allows one to conduct at least two tasks: -to produce an estimate of the abyssal circulation in the Atlantic Ocean by combining hydrographic observations and a finite difference circulation model. DISCIPLINE KEYWORDS: Climatology and Atmospheric, Climatology, Paleoclimatology, Paleoenvironment SOFTWARE LANGUAGE: fortran f-90. This resource description was produced with support from the NSF project entitled "EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences," (NSF ICER-1340301) under the direction of Kerstin A. Lehnert, Mark Uhen, John W. Williams, Christopher J. JenkinsMore Info
Autocomp 2.3Lisiecki, L. Software uses output of Match 2.3.1 software to construct composite depth sections for marine sediment cores. Functional with both gapped and gap-free data. Runs in MatLab. DISCIPLINE KEYWORDS: Geochronolgy and Geomorphology, paleoceanography, paleoclimatology, sedimentology, stratigraphy SOFTWARE LANGUAGE: Matlab. This resource description was produced with support from the NSF project entitled "EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences," (NSF ICER-1340301) under the direction of Kerstin A. Lehnert, Mark Uhen, John W. Williams, Christopher J. JenkinsMore Info
BACONBlaauw, M. Software for Bayesian age-depth modeling for Windows, Mac, and Linux. DISCIPLINE KEYWORDS: Geochronolgy and Geomorphology, geoscience, paleoclimatology, limnology, glaciology, stratigraphy, isotope geoscience, sedimentology, SOFTWARE OS: Windows, Mac, Linux. This resource description was produced with support from the NSF project entitled "EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences," (NSF ICER-1340301) under the direction of Kerstin A. Lehnert, Mark Uhen, John W. Williams, Christopher J. JenkinsMore Info
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