Paleotemperature reconstruction

A corrected paleotemperature reconstruction of the Vostok Ice Core Data [Petit et al., 2001] as used in [Nicolsky et al., 2012] to model the temperature anomaly, Tv, in the Laptev Sea shelf. See equation (2) in Nicolsky et al. [2012] for further details. The correction is based on regional paleotemperature data in Kaplina and Kuznetsova [1975], Kaplina and Chekhovsky [1987], Balobaev [1991], and Konishchev [1998]. References: Balobaev, V. (1991), Geothermal Conditions of North Asian Lithosphere in Permafrost Areas, 277 pp., Nauka, Novosibirsk, Russia. Kaplina, T., and I. Kuznetsova (1975), Geotemperature and climatic model of the epoch of the Yedoma Suite deposits accumulation in the Coastal Lowland of Yakutia, in Paleoenvironmental Problems of the Loess and Periglacial Areas, pp. 170–174, Nauka, Moscow. Kaplina, T., and A. Chekhovsky (1987), Reconstruction of paleogeographical condition of Holocene optimum on Yakutia Coastal Lowland, in Quaternary Period of North East Asia, pp. 145–151, SVKNII DVO AS USSR, Magadan, Russia. Konishchev, V. (1998), Relationship between the lithology of active-layer material and mean annual ground temperature in the former USSR, paper presented at 7th International Conference on Permafrost, Int. Permafrost Assoc., Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. Nicolsky, D. J., V. E. Romanovsky, N. N. Romanovskii, A. L. Kholodov, N. E. Shakhova, and I. P. Semiletov (2012), Modeling sub-sea permafrost in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf: The Laptev Sea region, J. Geophys. Res., 117, F03028, doi:10.1029/2012JF002358. Petit, J.R., et al., 2001, Vostok Ice Core Data for 420,000 Years, IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series #2001-076. NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA.