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During the past 18 years, since the start of the CLIMAP project (Climate, Long Range Investigation, Mapping and Prediction), a great wealth of paleoclimatic proxy data have been obtained. These proxy data have been employed as boundary conditions for the simulation of past states of the ocean such as that of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) 18 thousand years before the present (kyBP), the Climatic Optimum 9ky BP, and the penultimate interglacial 120ky BP. These proxy data include sea surface temperatures, winds, and the position of the North Atlantic polar front as deduced by the CLIMAP and COHMAP (Cooperative Holocene Mapping Project; Ruddiman and Wright, 1987) projects, and by various European groups working in Bordeaux, Cambridge, Kiel and Paris.
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Sarnthein, M., Bard, E., Dalfes, N., Heinze, C., Michel, E., Winn, K. (1990). Working Group 5: Impact of Paleoclimatic Proxy Data on Climate Modeling. In: Schlesinger, M.E. (eds) Climate-Ocean Interaction. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2093-4_22
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