Table 1 Overview of available global and national repositories and databases containing documentary evidence.

From: DOCU-CLIM: A global documentary climate dataset for climate reconstructions

Name of repository or database

Abbreviation

Region

Nall

Ndocu

Reference

URL

PAGES2k Global 2,000 Year Multiproxy Database

PAGES2k

Global

692

15

Emile-Geay et al.6

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/ access/paleo-search/study/ 21171 (last access: 30 May 2022)

NOAA/World Data Service for Paleoclimatology archives

NOAA Paleo

Global

>10000

61

 

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/ access/paleo-search/ (last access: 30 May 2022)

Euro-Climhist

Euro-Climhist

Switzerland/central Europe

65

27

Pfister et al.10

https://www.euroclimhist.unibe.ch/en/ (last access: 30 May 2022)

Tambora.org

Tambora.org

Germany

4

4

Riemann et al.133

http://www.tambora.org (last access: 30 May 2022)

National Snow and Ice Database: Global Lake and River Ice Phenology

NSIDC

Northern Hemisphere

865

39

Benson et al.25, updated 2020

https://nsidc.org/data/g01377/versions/1 (last access: 30 May 2022)

Japan Climate Data Project

JCDP

Japan

14

3

 

https://jcdp.jp (last access: 30 May 2022)

Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans

CLIWOC

Global

1624

 

García-Herrera et al.134

https://www.historicalclimatology.com/cliwoc.html (last access: 30 May 2022)

Institute for Ocean Technology Ice Database

Ice Data

Canada

4

4

 

http://www.icedata.ca (last access: 30 May 2022)

KNMI Climate Explorer

Climate Explorer

Global

>200

~10

 

https://climexp.knmi.nl/ start.cgi?id = someone@ somewhere (last access: 30 May 2022)

Red Española de Reconstrucción Climática a Partir de Fuentes Documentales

RECLIDO

Spain

7

7

 

http://stream-ucm.es/RECLIDO/es/home-es.htm (last access: 30 May 2022)

Salvá Sinobas

Salvá Sinobas

Iberian Peninsula

18

5

 

http://salva-sinobas.uvigo.es/index.php (last access: 30 May 2022)

Variabilidad y Reconstrucción del Clima

Vareclim

Global

5

5

 

https://www.upo.es/ vareclim/index.php (last access: 30 May 2022)

Reconstructed East Asian Climate Historical Encoded Series

REACHES

China

1

1

Wang et al.26

https://www.ncdc.noaa. gov/paleo- search/study/ 23410 (last access: 30 May 2022)

Tracking Extremes of Meteorological Phenomena Experienced in Space and Time

TEMPEST

United Kingdom

5

5

Veale et al.135

https://www.nottingham. ac.uk/research/groups/ weather-extremes/research/ tempest-database.aspx (last access: 30 May 2022)

  1. Nall is the total number of series or databases available on the platform, and Ndocu is the number of those series based on documentary evidence and available prior to 1880 CE (from Burgdorf13). Note that there may be overlap between the repositories.