PRISM 8°x10° Northern Hemisphere Paleoclimate Reconstruction:  Digital Data

Annotated list of included digital files.

Contents/
	FGDCmeta.txt			Formal metadata.
	contents.txt			Annotated list of included files.

Core/
	meta/
		report.txt			Text of the open-file report.

	raw/					Data files.  All are tab-delimited ASCII
							text, with rows indicating latitude and
							columns indicating longitude.

		lndice.txt			Land ice distribution.
		sealvl.txt			Land distribution.
		siceaug.txt			August sea-ice distribution.
		sicefeb.txt			February sea-ice distribution.
		sstaug.txt			August sea-surface temperature.
		sstfeb.txt			February sea-surface temperature.
		vegetation.txt		Vegetation distribution (columnar listing).

		vegetation/			Vegetation distribution (tabular grids).
			modern.des		Modern Desert.
			modern.tun		Modern Tundra.
			modern.eve		Modern Evergreen Forest.
			modern.dec		Modern Deciduous Forest.
			modern.gra		Modern Grassland.
			modern.rai		Modern Rain Forest.
			pliocene.des	Pliocene Desert.
			pliocene.tun	Pliocene Tundra.
			pliocene.eve	Pliocene Evergreen Forest.
			pliocene.dec	Pliocene Deciduous Forest.
			pliocene.gra	Pliocene Grassland.
			pliocene.rai	Pliocene Rain Forest.

Derived/
	report.html				Same information as Core/meta/report.txt, but
							encoded using hypertext markup language (HTML).

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