Northeast Pacific Uk37 Paleo-Temperatures: Readme file
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                   NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
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            World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

NAME OF DATA SET: Northeast Pacific Uk37 Paleo-Temperatures
LAST UPDATE: 04/2001 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTOR: Stephanie S. Kienast and Jennifer L. McKay, 
University of British Columbia

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2001-035

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Kienast, S.S., and J.L. McKay, 2001, 
Northeast Pacific Uk37 Paleo-Temperatures, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder
Data Contribution Series #2001-035. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Kienast, S.S. and J.L. McKay, 2001, 
Sea Surface Temperatures in the subarctic Northeast Pacific reflect 
millennial-scale Climate Oscillations during the last 16 kyrs,  
Geophysical Research Letters, v. 28, no. 8, pp. 1563-1566.

ADDITIONAL REFERENCE:
Müller, P. J., G. Kirst, G. Ruhland, I. v. Storch, and A. Rosell-Melé, 1998, 
Calibration of the alkenone paleotemperature index Uk'37 based on
core-tops from the eastern South Atlantic and the global Ocean 
(60°N - 60°S): Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 62, p. 1757-1772.


FUNDING SOURCE:  German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and 
International Council for Canadian Studies (Canada) 
with scholarships to S.S. Kienast, 
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 
(grants to Dr. S.E. Calvert)


GEOGRAPHIC REGION: subarctic Northeast Pacific
PERIOD OF RECORD:  0-16 KYrBP

LIST OF FILES: Readme_Kienast2001.txt (this file), 
SST_data.txt (tab-delimited ASCII text).


DESCRIPTION:
Northeast Pacific Uk37 Paleo-Temperatures

Sediment core JT96-09
48° 54.7'N Latitude
126° 53.4'W Longitude
920 m Water depth

Variable name and unit in each column from left to right

JT96-09  composite depth (cm)
calibrated age (years)
Uk'37 sea surface temperature (degree Celsius)
oldest possible age (years) according to 2sigma error of age calibration
youngest possible age (years) according to 2sigma error of age calibration.

Data Precision:
The SST values have an overall accuracy of +/-1.5 degree Celsius 
(Müller et al., 1998).