Cenozoic Books

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1. Goal: Showcase how the LinkedEarth ecosystem can be used to study deep-time paleo.
2. Description: Two ideas:

• Reproduce a simpler version of this figure from https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/about-us/news/record-earths-cenozoic-climate-reveals-role-of-polar-ice:

It would be relatively easy to make in Pyleoclim, as we now have the GTS annotations, line plots, and stripes. The thing is that I’ve never tried to overlay line plots on stripes, but I surmise it is possible! Obviously we would leave out the ice sheet stuff at the top + IODP logo. The goal is to see how much of this we can generate in a few lines of code. If we can get to 60-80% under 10 lines, that would be valuable!

• Apply Haar fluctuation analysis to Cenogrid. It’s a low-hanging fruit, and has been applied to diagnose climate stability over a range of timescales, including the Cenozoic (using CENOGRID). The code is extremely simple, publicly available, and just needs to be folded into Pyleoclim. This would make it relatively easy to reproduce Fig 3 of the paper (there are a few more datasets in there, none of which are very hard to get).

3. References/data sources: Arnscheidt & Rothman (2022). Westerhold et al, 2020
4. Keywords (science): Cenozoic, scale analysis
5. Keywords (tech): Haar fluctuation analysis, stripes, timescale annotations

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Note: I think this is a good issue for a motivated undergraduate like Albus. I'll ask him if he wants to do it, maybe with some guidance from @jordanplanders?