Category:ProxySystem (L)

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Category: ProxySystem (L) [1]

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Climate observations prior to the instrumental era are necessarily indirect. These observations are made on climate proxies in various geological (e.g. lake or marine sediments, living or fossil coral reefs, cave deposits), glaciological (ice cores or snow pits) or biological (trees) archives. Many types of data can often be collected from each archives, each sensing a different aspect of the environment (sometimes, several aspects at once). A paleoclimate dataset is almost always a time series of observations made on an archive.

Evans et al. (2013) <a href="#cite_note-evans2013-1">[1]</a> define a proxy system as comprised of three components (Fig 1).:

  • The [#InferredVariable" title="Category:InferredVariable variable], and may have complex responses to the environment they sense, including thresholds (record only part of the range of environmental conditions), seasonal biases (record environmental conditions over a few months of the year), and/or nonlinear responses. For instance, [#InferredVariable" title="Category:InferredVariable variables]. Similarly, picking foraminifera of a given species to conduct the measurements is part of the observation process, though it does affect the sensor definition : the habitat of these forams determines with environmental <a href="#InferredVariable" title="Category:InferredVariable"> variable</a> (e.g. surface, sub-surface, or thermocline temperature) they are most sensitive to.
  • The <a href="#ProxyArchive" title="Category:ProxyArchive ©"> archive</a> is the medium in which the response of a sensor to environmental forcing is recorded. Marine sediments are a type of archive, on which many sensors and observations may be recorded (e.g. Foraminifera Mg/Ca, δ18O, TEX86)