WALIS dashboard: An online tool to explore a global paleo sea-level database [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Abstract

In this paper, we present WALIS Dashboard, an open-access interface to the World Atlas of Last Interglacial Shorelines (WALIS), which was developed and compiled thanks to funding from the European Research Council. WALIS is a database that includes thousands of samples (dated with different radiometric methods) and sea-level indicators formed during the Last Interglacial (~80 to 130 ka). The WALIS Dashboard was coded in R (shiny app), and allows querying a simplified version of WALIS by either geographic extent or by attributes. The user can then download the queried data and perform simple and reproducible data analysis. The WALIS Dashboard can be used both online and offline.

Keywords

• Past sea level change
• Geological database
• Last Interglacial
• Data visualisation
• Sea-level changes
• Paleoclimate
• eng