Pollen-based summer and winter Holocene palaeoclimate reconstruction of central Mediterranean

This dataset presents winter and summer palaeoclimate (temperature and precipitation) quantitative reconstructions from 38 pollen records of the Central Mediterranean region (encompassing southern France and Italy). A part of the pollen fossil records was extracted from the Neotoma Paleoecology Database (https://www.neotomadb.org/), with age-depth models updated from Li et al. (2022; doi:10.5194/essd-14-1331-2022), and another part was gathered directly from the authors of the original studies. Palaeoclimate reconstructions are based on two different methods: Modern Analogue Technique (MAT) and Boosted Regression Trees (BRT). An average palaeoclimate signal was calculated by averaging the MAT- and BRT-based signal for each record.