PaCTS v1.0

This page describes the first version of PaCTS (Paleoclimate Community reporTing Standard).

Background

This page describes PaCTS v1.0, which represents the first attempt by the paleoclimate community to standardize the reporting of paleoclimate data. To do so, the community organized itself in working groups centered around the main proxy archives. To see detailed discussions about how the standards evolved, see the current working groups (shortcut on the left).

The recommendation follows a vote on this platform, the LinkedEarth twitter account, and a survey distributed to the community through various platforms (e.g., listservs, PAGES network).

PaCTS v1.0

Cross Archive Metadata

See the discussion in the cross-archive metadata working group page.

Table 1: Recommendation for cross-archive metadata.

Property	New Dataset	Legacy Dataset
Example 1	Example 2	Example 3
Example A	Example B	Example C
Example !	Example @	Example #