Sea Surface Temperature Estimates in the Equatorial and North Atlantic: Readme file
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               World Data Center A- Paleoclimatology
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE CONTRIBUTORS WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!


NAME OF DATA SET: Sea Surface Temperature Estimates in the Equatorial and North Atlantic

LAST UPDATE: 7/98 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTORS:  Waelbroeck, C., L. Labeyrie, J.C. Duplessy, 
J. Guiot, M. Labracherie, H. Leclaire, and J. Duprat

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 1998-026

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION:  Waelbroeck, C., et al, 1998,
SST Estimates in the Equatorial and North Atlantic, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series # 1998-026.  
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA.

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Waelbroeck, C., L. Labeyrie, J.C. Duplessy, 
J. Guiot, M. Labracherie, H. Leclaire, and J. Duprat, 
Improving past sea surface temperature estimates based on planktonic fossil faunas, 
Paleoceanography, 13: 272-283, 1998.

FUNDING SOURCES: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Commisariat à l'Energie 
Atomique, and Programme National de la Dynamique du Climat, France; 
European Research Network program CHRX-CT94-0424.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Equatorial and North Atlantic
PERIOD OF RECORD: 0 - ~125KYrBP
LIST OF FILES: readme.Waelbroeck1998.txt (this file), Tab-delimited ASCII data files
Table_A.txt, Table_A1.txt, Table_A2.txt, Table_A3.txt, Table_A4.txt, Table_A5.txt.  

DESCRIPTION:   This data set contains sea surface temperature (SST) estimates 
from 5 Atlantic cores discussed in the original reference. Cores 90-013-013-P and 
SU 81-18 cover the Holocene and a portion of stage 2, cores CH 69-09, V 25-56 and 
V 25-59 cover the entire last climatic cycle. 
Table A contains the cores location, and Tables A1-A5 contain the cold and warm season 
SSTs reconstructed by the Revised Analog Method (RAM) (see the original reference), 
as well as the associated standard deviations and dissimilarity coefficients. 
Cold and warm season SSTs refer to the average winter [January-March] and 
summer [July-September] SSTs classed into cold and warm groups.