d'Oliveira, Léa; Joannin, Sébastien; Ménot, Guillemette; Combourieu-Nebout, Nathalie; Dugerdil, Lucas; Blache, Marion; Robles, Mary; Florenzano, Assunta; Masi, Alessia; Mercuri, Anna Maria; Sadori, Laura; Balasse, Marie; Peyron, Odile (2026): Pollen-based summer and winter Holocene palaeoclimate reconstruction of central Mediterranean [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.989934
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Published: 2026-02-05 • DOI registered: 2026-03-06
Abstract:
This dataset presents winter and summer palaeoclimate (temperature and precipitation) quantitative reconstructions from 38 pollen records of the Central Mediterranean region (encompassing southern France and Italy). A part of the pollen fossil records was extracted from the Neotoma Paleoecology Database (https://www.neotomadb.org/), with age-depth models updated from Li et al. (2022; doi:10.5194/essd-14-1331-2022), and another part was gathered directly from the authors of the original studies. Palaeoclimate reconstructions are based on two different methods: Modern Analogue Technique (MAT) and Boosted Regression Trees (BRT). An average palaeoclimate signal was calculated by averaging the MAT- and BRT-based signal for each record.
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d'Oliveira, Léa; Joannin, Sébastien; Ménot, Guillemette; Combourieu-Nebout, Nathalie; Dugerdil, Lucas; Blache, Marion; Robles, Mary; Florenzano, Assunta; Masi, Alessia; Mercuri, Anna Maria; Sadori, Laura; Balasse, Marie; Peyron, Odile (2025): Holocene climate dynamics in the central Mediterranean inferred from pollen data. Climate of the Past, 21(11), 2331-2359, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2331-2025
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Coverage:
Median Latitude: 43.379728 * Median Longitude: 8.320948 * South-bound Latitude: 37.520000 * West-bound Longitude: 1.566944 * North-bound Latitude: 46.666389 * East-bound Longitude: 16.020000
Date/Time Start: 1967-01-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2019-09-01T00:00:00
Minimum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0.000 m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 16.280 m
Event(s):
AC4HOLO (AC3/4Holocene) * Latitude: 42.986389 * Longitude: 10.883333 * Elevation Start: 157.0 m * Elevation End: 39.0 m * Location: Lago dellAccesa, Italy * Method/Device: Russian sampler (RSAMP) * Comment: No laminations. Core diameter: 8 cm. Area: 16 ha. Lake. Physiography: karstic origin.
ALLOS * Latitude: 44.241667 * Longitude: 6.702222 * Date/Time: 1972-07-15T00:00:00 * Elevation Start: 2121.0 m * Elevation End: 0.0 m * Location: Plan du Laus, France * Method/Device: Hiller corer (HILC) * Comment: Eastern part of the meadows. Core diameter: 4 cm. Area: 0.5 ha. Meandring stream in a flat meadow. Physiography: glacial depression. Surrounding vegetation: larch on rocky slopes.
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Event label | Event | ||||
| 2 | Latitude of event | Latitude | ||||
| 3 | Longitude of event | Longitude | ||||
| 4 | Elevation of event | Elevation | m | |||
| 5 | Uniform resource locator/link to reference | URL ref | Source reference 1 | |||
| 6 | Uniform resource locator/link to reference | URL ref | Source reference 2 | |||
| 7 | Identification | ID | Site | |||
| 8 | Identification | ID | Dataset | |||
| 9 | Site | Site | ||||
| 10 | Location | Location | ||||
| 11 | DEPTH, sediment/rock | Depth sed | m | Geocode | ||
| 12 | Calendar age | Cal age | ka BP | |||
| 13 | Temperature, air, summer, June-August | T air summer (6-8) | °C | d'Oliveira, Léa | Boosted Regression Trees (BRT), according to Salonen et al. (2012) | Reconstructed mean summer temperature. |
| 14 | Temperature, air, summer, June-August | T air summer (6-8) | °C | d'Oliveira, Léa | Modern Analogue Technique (MAT), according to Guiot (1990) | Reconstructed mean summer temperature. |
| 15 | Temperature, air, summer, June-August | T air summer (6-8) | °C | d'Oliveira, Léa | Average | MAT and BRT averaged climate signal. |
| 16 | Temperature, air, winter, December-February | T air winter (12-2) | °C | d'Oliveira, Léa | Boosted Regression Trees (BRT), according to Salonen et al. (2012) | Reconstructed mean winter temperature. |
| 17 | Temperature, air, winter, December-February | T air winter (12-2) | °C | d'Oliveira, Léa | Modern Analogue Technique (MAT), according to Guiot (1990) | Reconstructed mean winter temperature. |
| 18 | Temperature, air, winter, December-February | T air winter (12-2) | °C | d'Oliveira, Léa | Average | MAT and BRT averaged climate signal. |
| 19 | Precipitation, summer, June-August | Precip summer (6-8) | mm | d'Oliveira, Léa | Boosted Regression Trees (BRT), according to Salonen et al. (2012) | Reconstructed mean summer precipitation. |
| 20 | Precipitation, summer, June-August | Precip summer (6-8) | mm | d'Oliveira, Léa | Modern Analogue Technique (MAT), according to Guiot (1990) | Reconstructed mean summer precipitation. |
| 21 | Precipitation, summer, June-August | Precip summer (6-8) | mm | d'Oliveira, Léa | Average | MAT and BRT averaged climate signal. |
| 22 | Precipitation, winter, December-February | Precip winter (12-2) | mm | d'Oliveira, Léa | Boosted Regression Trees (BRT), according to Salonen et al. (2012) | Reconstructed mean winter precipitation. |
| 23 | Precipitation, winter, December-February | Precip winter (12-2) | mm | d'Oliveira, Léa | Modern Analogue Technique (MAT), according to Guiot (1990) | Reconstructed mean summer precipitation. |
| 24 | Precipitation, winter, December-February | Precip winter (12-2) | mm | d'Oliveira, Léa | Average | MAT and BRT averaged climate signal. |
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