• Ice Sheets and Climate in the Eurasian Arctic at the Last Glacial Maximum
  (EURASIAN ICE SHEETS), Contract: ENV4-CT97-0563 (Partners)
• Information System for the ESF/QUEEN Programme
  (QUEEN/PANGAEA), Contract: MAS3-CT98-0185 (Partners)

Project information

• Summary
• Proposal of the QUEEN/PANGAEA project to the EC (July 1998)
• Annual report (January 2000)
• Final report (February 2001)
• Map of QUEEN related sites in PANGAEA

Data links

Individual queries on the QUEEN data inventory should be made with the PANGAEA search engine Any keyword, which is related to the matainformation of a data set, can be used (name, label, parameter etc). The geographical area of interest can be defined by coordinates. The rules for combining keywords follows those of other search engines (see help).

Data can also be accessed by a list of authors, who have contributed to the QUEEN data inventory.

As an example on how to find data from references, published in a certain journal, Boreas was used to provide a list of tables published in Boreas.

A list of references from QUEEN related publications with data in PANGAEA is available as a dynamic link, which means, that the user will always be prompted with an up-to-date list.

The following links are examples, mostly using the PANGAEA search engine to send queries to PANGAEA. To get the actual number of data sets related to QUEEN type 'QUEEN' in the search line.

Ice cores

Deep Drilling of Glaciers (DDGA)
is a data collection from investigations on Arctic ice cores, produced 1975-1995 in Russian Projects, compiled by Arkhipov, S M, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geography, Department of Glacioloy since 1996.

Greenland Summit Ice Cores (GRIP/ GISP)
National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder & World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder (1997).

North Greenland Traverse
Data from ice cores and snow pits in Greenland, produced at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, and the University of Heidelberg by Miller, H; Fischer, H; Schwager, M and Wilhelms, F (1995-2000).

Soils

The Environmental Geochemical Atlas of the Central Barents Region (Kola Atlas)
Reimann, C et al. (1998) contains geochemical data of 600 soil profiles, from the Kola Peninsula by the Geological Survey of Norway.

Permafrost data, have been included from various authors and publications.

Modell data and reconstructions

Within this project, also model data were stored in the information system. Due to the huge amount and size of data sets resulting from models, this could only be done as a show case on how PANGAEA is able to handle model data. Data from models can be archived as vector data or as gridded data.

Ice-sheet extent during the Late Quaternary from various authors, reconstructed during the QUEEN programme and the EU project 'Eurasian ice sheet'. Data are available as vector lines in GF3-format.

The ice sheet over Scandinavia has been modeled for the late Weichselian (late glacial maximum at 18 000 years BP) by Siegert, M J; Dowdeswell, J A & Melles, M (1999). This data set is available as geocoded isolines of ice sheet elevation. The request downloads all lines in one file in GF3-format which can directly be imported and plotted with the PanMap software.

Climate reconstructions and snow lines in the Arctic, extracted from the International Paleoclimate data base of the Quaternary (PKDB), established by Frenzel, B (1990-1998).

Modelled flux rates of different parameters for the North Atlantic Ocean from Kreutz, M (1998), Flux through the bottom boundary layer (in German: Stofftransport durch die Bodengrenzschicht, Regionalisierung und Bilanzierung für den Nordatlantik und das Europäische Nordmeer).

Atlas of Paleoclimates and Paleoenvironments of the Northern Hemisphere, Late Pleistocene - Holocene, Frenzel, B; Pecsi, M & Velichko, A A (1992), Geographical Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart. Maps can be downloaded in pdf-format (fully available in April).

Oceanography

BarKode (Barents and Kara Seas Oceanographic Data Base), World Climate Research Programme, Arctic Climate System Study, International ACSYS/CLIC Project Office, Tromso, Oelke, C (1999)/(Temperature and salinity data, measured from 1898 to1998. Data set is separated to monthly ODV collections, stored as zip-archives. For ODV software and formats see http://odv.awi.de.)

WOCE (World Ocean Ciculation Experiment)

Oceanographic bottle data north of 60° N, 180°E to 45° W, extracted from the World Ocean Database 1998, National Oceanographic Data Center, Conkright, M E & Levitus, S et al. (1999). Data (T, S, oxygen, nutrients) are available as text files, formated for import to Ocean Data View (ODV); ODV is a recommended standard software for the visualization of oceanographic data.

Sediments

Most of the marine sediments investigated in QUEEN are taken on expeditions of the research vessel Polarstern. A query on marine sediment data from the Arctic results in a list of more than 600 data sets and thus the query has to be restricted by the user, e.g. by using the label of an expedition (try ARK-VIII/3) or the label of a sampling site (try PS2190*)

Also russian research vessels have been included in expeditions to the Arctic. Data are available from expeditions of Borris Petrov, Ivan Kireyev, Dmitry Mendeleev, and Professor Logachev.

Lake sediments were investigated at different locations in Siberia and Greenland.

About 200 terrestrial facies logs with age determinations from outcrops in Siberia have been digitized from hand written protocols with an aggreed standard nomenclatur of the facies abbreviations (FAC-CODE.PDF) as defined by Per Möller, Lund.

Micropaleontology

Microfossils from marine and lake sediments comprise different groups. The following PangaVista retrievals will give an overview about the available data north of 60° N from research on

Tree rings

One of the most comprehensive data collection related to tree rings on the northern hemisphere is the Northern Hemispheric Dendroclimatological Network (NHD), Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL/FNP), Birmensdorf, Switzerland from Schweingruber, F H & Nogler, P (2000). The data were recently given into the public domain and are available at the WDC for Paleoclimatology, Boulder and is integrated in PANGAEA (NHD)

Geography and mapping

Due to the requirements of programs like QUEEN, working in a large area including ocean, glaciers and land, it was necessary to provide common geographical ressources and tools to improve discussion of results on maps. The mini-GIS PanMap with manual and bathymetry (GEBCO), elevation lines (GTOPO30), rivers and other geographical data is available as freeware from the PANGAEA web server.

The recent compilation of both, GEBOC and GTOPO30, including new russian bathymetry for the Arctic Ocean by Martin Jakobsson et al. (International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean, IBCAO) is a raster file in its original format. This data set has been vectorized in 100 m contour lines, converted to the layer format of PanMap and listed as compressed file archives on the PanMap web page for download.

Since the year 2000 marine research in cooperation between Russia and Germany is concentrating on the Kara Sea in the project SIRRO. A map of the inner Kara Sea south of 77° N with 10 m-contour lines has been calculated from Russian navigational charts and echo soundings from recent expeditions. The bathymetry of the Kara Sea is available in PanMap-format.