The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems

K. Atsawawaranunt; L. Comas-Bru; S. Amirnezhad Mozhdehi; M. Deininger; M. Deininger; S. P. Harrison; A. Baker; M. Boyd; N. Kaushal; S. M. Ahmad; S. M. Ahmad; Y. Ait Brahim; M. Arienzo; P. Bajo; K. Braun; Y. Burstyn; Y. Burstyn; S. Chawchai; W. Duan; I. G. Hatvani; J. Hu; Z. Kern; I. Labuhn; M. Lachniet; F. A. Lechleitner; A. Lorrey; C. Pérez-Mejías; R. Pickering; N. Scroxton; SISAL Working Group Members

doi:10.5194/essd-10-1687-2018

Earth System Science Data (Sep 2018)

The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems

K. Atsawawaranunt,
L. Comas-Bru,
S. Amirnezhad Mozhdehi,
M. Deininger,
M. Deininger,
S. P. Harrison,
A. Baker,
M. Boyd,
N. Kaushal,
S. M. Ahmad,
S. M. Ahmad,
Y. Ait Brahim,
M. Arienzo,
P. Bajo,
K. Braun,
Y. Burstyn,
Y. Burstyn,
S. Chawchai,
W. Duan,
I. G. Hatvani,
J. Hu,
Z. Kern,
I. Labuhn,
M. Lachniet,
F. A. Lechleitner,
A. Lorrey,
C. Pérez-Mejías,
R. Pickering,
N. Scroxton,
SISAL Working Group Members

Affiliations

K. Atsawawaranunt: Centre for Past Climate Change and School of Archaeology, Geography & Environmental Sciences, Reading University, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AH, UK
L. Comas-Bru: School of Earth Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
S. Amirnezhad Mozhdehi: School of Earth Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
M. Deininger: School of Earth Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
M. Deininger: Institute of Geosciences, Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz, Johann-Joachim-Becher-Weg 21, 55128 Mainz, Germany
S. P. Harrison: Centre for Past Climate Change and School of Archaeology, Geography & Environmental Sciences, Reading University, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AH, UK
A. Baker: School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington 2052, Australia
M. Boyd: Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK
N. Kaushal: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3AN, UK
S. M. Ahmad: CSIR – National Geophysical Research Institute, Uppal Road, 500 007 Hyderabad, India
S. M. Ahmad: Department of Geography, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 110025, India
Y. Ait Brahim: Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
M. Arienzo: Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, 2215 Raggio Parkway, 89512 Reno, NV, USA
P. Bajo: School of Geography, The University of Melbourne, 3010 Victoria, Australia
K. Braun: Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 874101, 85287 Tempe, AZ, USA
Y. Burstyn: Institute of Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
Y. Burstyn: Geological Survey of Israel, 30 Malkhe Israel, 95501 Jerusalem, Israel
S. Chawchai: MESA Research Unit, Department of Geology, the Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, 10330 Bangkok, Thailand
W. Duan: Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
I. G. Hatvani: Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budaörsi út 45, 1112 Budapest, Hungary
J. Hu: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, 90089 Los Angeles, CA, USA
Z. Kern: Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budaörsi út 45, 1112 Budapest, Hungary
I. Labuhn: Institute of Geography, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
M. Lachniet: Dept. of Geoscience, University of Nevada, Box 4010, 89154 Las Vegas, NV, USA
F. A. Lechleitner: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3AN, UK
A. Lorrey: Climate, Atmosphere and Hazards Centre, National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, 41 Market Place, Central Business District, Auckland, New Zealand
C. Pérez-Mejías: Department of Geoenvironmental Processes and Global Change, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (IPE-CSIC), Avda. Montañana 1005, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain
R. Pickering: Department of Geological Sciences, Human Evolutionary Research Institute, University of Cape Town, 7701 Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
N. Scroxton: Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 611 North Pleasant Street, 01003-9297 Amherst, MA, USA
SISAL Working Group Members: A full list of authors and their affiliations appears at the end of the paper.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1687-2018
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10
pp. 1687 – 1713

Abstract

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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.

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Publisher: Copernicus Publications
Country of publisher: Germany
LCC subjects: Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Environmental sciences; Science: Geology
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