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The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems
Kamolphat AtsawawaranuntLaia Comas-bruSahar Amirnezhad MozhdehiMichael DeiningerSandy P. HarrisonAndy BakerMeighan BoydNikita KaushalSyed Masood AhmadYassine Ait BrahimMonica ArienzoPetra BajoKerstin BraunYuval BurstynSakonvan ChawchaiWuhui DuanIstvan Gabor HatvaniJun HuZoltan KernInga LabuhnMatthew LachnietFranziska A. LechleitnerAndrew LorreyCarlos Perez-mejiasRobyn PickeringNick ScroxtonTim AtkinsonAvner AyalonJames BaldiniMiriam Bar-matthewsJuan Pablo BernalSebastian BreitenbachRonny BochAndrea BorsatoYanjun CaiStacy CarolinHai ChengAndrea ColumbuIsabelle CouchoudFrancisco CruzAttila DemenyDavid Dominguez-villarVirgil DragusinRussell N. DrysdaleVasile ErsekMartin FinnéDominik FleitmannJens FohlmeisterAmy FrappierDominique GentySteffen HolzkämperPhilip HopleyGayatri KathayatDuncan Keenan-jonesGabriella KoltaiMarc LuetscherTing-yong LiMahjoor Ahmad LoneMonika MarkowskaDave MatteyFrank McdermottAna MorenoGina MoseleyCarole NehmeValdir F. NovelloDavid PsomiadisKira RehfeldJiaoyang RuanNatasha SekhonLijuan ShaDenis ScholzYavor ShopovAndrew SmithNicolas StrikisPauline TrebleEzgi Unal-imerAnton VaksStef VansteenbergeCristina Veiga-piresNy Riavo VoarintsoaXianfeng WangCorinne WongBarbara WorthamJennifer WurtzelBaoyun Zongsubject
010506 paleontologyClimate Research010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesClimate changeSpeleothemF800010502 geochemistry & geophysicscomputer.software_genre01 natural sciencesKlimatforskningCavePaleoclimatologylcsh:Environmental sciences0105 earth and related environmental scienceslcsh:GE1-350geographygeography.geographical_feature_categoryDatabaseStable isotope ratiospeleothemsPALEOCLIMATOLOGIAlcsh:QE1-996.5lcsh:GeologyMetadata13. Climate actionGeneral Earth and Planetary SciencesEnvironmental scienceClimate modelcomputerChronologydescription
Stable isotope records from speleothems provide information on past climate changes, most particularly information that can be used to reconstruct past changes in precipitation and atmospheric circulation. These records are increasingly being used to provide “out-of-sample” evaluations of isotope-enabled climate models. SISAL (Speleothem Isotope Synthesis and Analysis) is an international working group of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) project. The working group aims to provide a comprehensive compilation of speleothem isotope records for climate reconstruction and model evaluation. The SISAL database contains data for individual speleothems, grouped by cave system. Stable isotopes of oxygen and carbon (δ18O, δ13C) measurements are referenced by distance from the top or bottom of the speleothem. Additional tables provide information on dating, including information on the dates used to construct the original age model and sufficient information to assess the quality of each data set and to erect a standardized chronology across different speleothems. The metadata table provides location information, information on the full range of measurements carried out on each speleothem and information on the cave system that is relevant to the interpretation of the records, as well as citations for both publications and archived data. The compiled data are available at https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.147.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2018-09-14 | Earth System Science Data |