Indian Ocean Quaternary Circulation Data Set: readme file
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               World Data Center A- Paleoclimatology
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE CONTRIBUTORS WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

CONTRIBUTORS: Will Howard and Warren Prell, Sea Education Association
and Brown University.
IGBP PAGES/WDCA Data Contribution Series #:  95-035
NAME OF DATA SET: Indian Ocean Quaternary Circulation Data Set
LAST UPDATE: 2/96 (Original Receipt by WDC-A Paleo)   
GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Southern Indian Ocean
PERIOD OF RECORD: 0-500KYrBP

LIST OF FILES: 
Macintosh Excel 3.0 files contained in the Stuffit
Archive file HP92_data.sit, comma-delimited ASCII files as follows:
HP92_Coreloc.csv: Core locations
HP92_Isotopes.csv: Stable isotopic measurements of G. bulloides
HP92_Agemodels.csv: Stratigraphic tie points used to develop 
age models in the paper
HP92_MAT_SST.csv: Modern analog SST estimates
HP92_Codes.csv: Codes for faunal data (species names)
HP92_Faunal_Counts.csv: Planktonic foram counts in %.
Total # in count and forams/gm sediment also given


DESCRIPTION:
Data tables from the original reference, which reconstructs changes in 
the position of the Subtropical Convergence and the Antarctic Polar Front.
Time series analysis of SST records indicate a concentration of variance
in the primary orbital frequency bands.  


ORIGINAL REFERENCE:
Howard, W. R., and W. L. Prell, 1992, Late Quaternary surface 
circulation of the Southern Indian Ocean and its relationship
to orbital variations, Paleoceanography, 7, 79-118, 1992.

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION:
Howard, W., 1995, Indian Ocean Quaternary Circulation Data Set.  IGBP PAGES/World Data
Center-A for Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series # 95-035.  NOAA/NGDC
Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA.