# Western North Atlantic Basin 8,000 Year Paleotempestology Database 2018 #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # World Data Service for Paleoclimatology, Boulder # and # NOAA Paleoclimatology Program # National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # Template Version 3.0 # Encoding: UTF-8 # NOTE: Please cite Publication, and Online_Resource and date accessed when using these data. # If there is no publication information, please cite Investigators, Title, and Online_Resource and date accessed. # # Online_Resource: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/21391 # Description: NOAA Landing Page # Online_Resource: http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/contributions_by_author/oliva2017/oliva2018pubs.txt # Description: NOAA location of the template # # Original_Source_URL: # Description: # # Description/Documentation lines begin with # # Data lines have no # # # Archive: Other Collections # # Dataset DOI: # # Parameter_Keywords: #-------------------- # Contribution_Date # Date: 2017-06-08 #-------------------- # File_Last_Modified_Date # Date: 2017-06-08 #-------------------- # Title # Study_Name: Western North Atlantic Basin 8,000 Year Paleotempestology Database 2018 #-------------------- # Investigators # Investigators: Oliva, F.; Viau, A.: Peros, M.; Bouchard, M. #-------------------- # Description_and_Notes # Description: Summary of published paleotempestological studies for the western North Atlantic Basin, updated 2018 version described in Oliva et al. 2018 The Holocene. # Provided Keywords: Paleotempestology, hydroclimatology, tropical cyclones, X-ray fluorescence core scanning, geochemistry # # Definitions: # Table Field Definition Values Type # Intervals Article Integer ID of article 1-61 String # Intervals Full reference Study reference varies Text # #-------------------- # Publication # Authors: Frank Oliva, Andre Viau, Matthew Peros, Marc Bouchard # Published_Date_or_Year: 2018 (in press) # Published_Title: Paleotempestology database for the western North Atlantic basin # Journal_Name: The Holocene # Volume: (in press) # Edition: # Issue: # Pages: # Report_Number: # DOI: # Online_Resource: # Full_Citation: # Abstract: Paleotempestology, the study of past tropical cyclone (TC) activity, has grown considerably over the past two decades, and there is now a relatively dense network of sites across the Western North Atlantic Basin providing records of past TC variability. This paper presents a new database of paleotempestological records generated from 61 studies published between 1993 and 2018 for this region. A total of 266 data entries, consisting of the calibrated ages of individual TC events and the boundaries of "active" TC periods from the present to 8000 cal yr BP, along with the site names, geographic coordinates, proxy indicator(s) used, materials upon which dating was undertaken, and information about the depositional basin type (e.g., lagoon, mangrove), are included in the database for each site. The database is housed at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/21391) and is available for free download. This publicly-available database will permit a greater number of researchers to work on questions related to past TC dynamics and more easily allow studies of long-term spatial-temporal TC relationships to be undertaken. #------------------ # Publication # Authors: Frank Oliva, Matthew Peros, Andre Viau # Published_Date_or_Year: 2017-01-10 # Published_Title: A review of the spatial distribution of and analytical techniques used in paleotempestological studies in the western North Atlantic Basin # Journal_Name: Progress in Physical Geography # Volume: 41 # Edition: # Issue: 1 # Pages: # Report_Number: # DOI: 10.1177/0309133316683899 # Online_Resource: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0309133316683899 # Full_Citation: # Abstract: Paleotempestology, the study of past tropical cyclones (TCs) using geological proxy techniques, is a growing discipline that utilizes data from a broad range of sources. Most paleotempestological studies have been conducted using "established proxies," such as grain-size analysis, loss-on-ignition, and micropaleontological indicators. More recently, however, researchers have been applying more advanced geochemical analyses, such as X-ray fluorescence core scanning and stable isotopic geochemistry, to generate new paleotempestological records. In this paper we begin by providing a list of paleotempestological studies for the western North Atlantic Basin and illustrate the spatial coverage of these studies. We then review the premises behind both established and new proxies and discuss their strengths and limitations at resolving past hurricane activity. Lastly, we suggest future directions for paleotempestological research based on our review of the literature that we argue will ultimately lead to a better understanding of TC dynamics under future climate change scenarios. #------------------ # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: Canada Research Chairs # Grant: #------------------ # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: NSERC # Grant: #------------------ # Site_Information # Site_Name: Western North Atlantic # Location: Ocean>Atlantic Ocean>North Atlantic Ocean # Country: # Northernmost_Latitude: 50.0 # Southernmost_Latitude: 10.0 # Easternmost_Longitude: -50.0 # Westernmost_Longitude: -100 # Elevation: 0 m #------------------ # Data_Collection # Collection_Name: Oliva2018paleotempest # Earliest_Year: 8000 # Most_Recent_Year: -50 # Time_Unit: Cal. Year BP # Core_Length: m # Notes: #------------------ # Chronology_Information # Chronology: # #---------------- # Variables # # Data variables follow are preceded by "##" in columns one and two. # Data line variables format: Variables list, one per line, shortname-tab-longname-tab-longname components (9 components: what, material, error, units, seasonality, archive, detail, method, C or N for Character or Numeric data) # #---------------- # Data: # Data lines follow (have no #) # Data line format - tab-delimited text, variable short name as header # Missing Values: # Article Full ref 1 Adomat F and Gischler E (2017) Assessing the suitability of Holocene environments along the central Belize coast, Central America, for the reconstruction of hurricane records. International Journal of Earth Sciences 106(1): 283–309. DOI: 10.1007/s00531-016-1319-y. 2 Aharon P and Lambert WJ (2009) Radiocarbon deficiencies of US Gulf Coast lakes compromise paleo-hurricane records. 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