The expanding LiPD (Linked Paleo Data) ecosystem: improving your paleoclimate research workflow

Querying, cleaning, and annotating paleoclimate data can be a cumbersome task, as is reproducing a published reconstruction method. Most of this work can now either be automated or avoided by utilizing the LiPD ecosystem.

 

With Pages2k, Temp12k, and other compilations, the linked paleodata (LiPD) format has solved the problems of data cleaning and annotation. These compilations and others are stored in the LiPDverse, with all metadata, paleo data, and chronology data. Packages in R and Python support querying the database (lipdR, pylipd). And a set of paleoclimate analysis packages allow for changepoint detection, age-modeling, and various other analyses (actR, geochronR, pyleoclim).

 

A new web platform called PReSto (the paleoclimate reconstruction storehouse) provides GUIs for easier querying of the LiPDverse. Additionally, several published climate reconstructions are available for visualization and comparison. And the creation of custom reconstructions from several of these published methods is now enabled in a streamlined web interface, code free. 

 

With a new partnership (FREE SODA, Dutch Research Council) the LiPDverse database continues to grow. We are currently adding a collection of records from the Southern Ocean. Several new web features are also being developed, such as map overlays and projections, as well as interactive data comparison tools.