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Review article
| 
11 Apr 2016
Review article |
| 11 Apr 2016
Palaeo-sea-level and palaeo-ice-sheet databases: problems, strategies, and perspectives
André Düsterhus
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, L3 5DA, UK
Institute of Oceanography, Center for Earth System Research and
Sustainability (CEN), University of Hamburg, Bundesstraße 53, 20146
Hamburg, Germany
Alessio Rovere
MARUM, University of Bremen, & ZMT, Leibniz
Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Leobener Str., Bremen, Germany
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, P.O. Box
1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, New York, USA
Anders E. Carlson
College of Earth,
Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
97331 USA
Benjamin P. Horton
Sea Level Research, Department of Marine and Coastal
Science and Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Earth Observatory of
Singapore and Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological
University, 639798, Nanyang, Singapore
Volker Klemann
Dep. Geodesy
and Remote Sensing, German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Potsdam,
Germany
Lev Tarasov
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL,
Canada
Natasha L. M. Barlow
Department of Geography, Durham University, South Road,
Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
Tom Bradwell
Biological & Environmental Sciences,
University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK
Jorie Clark
College of Earth,
Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
97331 USA
Andrea Dutton
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
W. Roland Gehrels
Environment Department, University of York, Heslington, York,
YO10 5NG, UK
Fiona D. Hibbert
Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography
Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK
Marc P. Hijma
Department of Applied Geology and Geophysics, Deltares, Utrecht,
the Netherlands
Nicole Khan
Sea Level Research, Department of Marine and Coastal
Science and Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Robert E. Kopp
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences,
Rutgers Energy Institute, and Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric
Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Dorit Sivan
Department
of Maritime Civilizations, Leon Charney School of Marine Sciences and
Recanati Institute of Maritime Studies (RIMS), University of Haifa, Haifa,
Israel
Torbjörn E. Törnqvist
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane
University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118-5698, USA
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This review/position paper addresses problems in creating new interdisciplinary databases for palaeo-climatological sea-level and ice-sheet data and gives an overview on new advances to tackle them. The focus therein is to define and explain strategies and highlight their importance to allow further progress in these fields. It also offers important insights into the general problem of designing competitive databases which are also applicable to other communities within the palaeo-environment.
This review/position paper addresses problems in creating new interdisciplinary databases for...
