Supplemental Information for PNAS Article "Proxy-Based Reconstructions of Hemispheric and Global Surface Temperature Variations over the Past Two Millennia"

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Supplementary Figures and Information (PDF)
UPDATE 1 December 2008: Supplementary Figure S8a had a small error due to improper calculation of the validation statistics.
UPDATE 4 November 2009: Another error was found in the corrected Supplementary figure S8a from December 2008: The previously posted version of the figure had an error due to incorrect application of the procedure described in the paper for updating the network in each century increment. In the newly corrected figure, we have added the result for NH CPS without both tree-rings *and* the 7 potential "problem series." Each of the various alternative versions where these sub-networks of proxy data have been excluded fall almost entirely within the uncertainties of the full reconstruction for at least the past 1100 years, while larger discrepancies are observed further back for the reconstruction without either tree-ring data or the 7 series in question, owing to the extreme sparseness of the resulting sub-network.
The new figure can be downloaded here (PDF)

1209proxynames.xls *** Updated 25 September 2008 to correct latitude/longitude values***
*** Updated 16 July 2009: This Excel spreadsheet was updated to include metadata that were incorrect or erroneously excluded from the previous version of this file. Only proxy metadata were updated; no data used in the calculations were affected. ***

Validation statistics:
eiv-validation.xls
cps-validation.xls
skillsig.xls: Skill significance levels from Monte Carlo simulations

Code: This page contains the Matlab scripts for both the CPS and EIV techniques.

Data: This page contains data needed for calculations.

UPDATE 3 October 2008: An error was found in the location information for one of the proxies included in the study. For more information, including the impact of this error on the results, please see the A_README.txt file on this page.

UPDATE 3 February 2009: An off-by-one error was found in the degrees of freedom used for screening proxy data. This has the effect of slightly reducing the effective P values from P=0.10 to P=0.11-0.12 for decadal screening. For more information, please see the README.txt file in this directory.