Late Quaternary SW Pacific Foraminifer Data: Readme file

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                   NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

NAME OF DATA SET: Late Quaternary SW Pacific Foraminifer Data
LAST UPDATE: 6/1999 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTORS: P.P.E. Weaver and L. Carter, Southampton Oceanography Centre

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 1999-035

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: P.P.E. Weaver and L. Carter, 1999, 
Late Quaternary SW Pacific Foraminifer Data, IGBP PAGES/World Data 
Center A-Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series #1999-035. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Weaver, P.P.E., Carter, L., and Neil, H.L., 1998, 
Response of Surface water masses and circulation to late Quaternary climate 
change east of New Zealand, Paleoceanography, v13-1, pp70-83, Feb 1998.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: SW Pacific, east of New Zealand
PERIOD OF RECORD: late Quaternary, 0-160 KYrBP

FUNDING SOURCE: FRST contract C01422 and NERC 

LIST OF FILES: Readme.weaver1998.txt (this file),  weaver1998.xls
(Microsoft Excel Workbook, contains data from all 8 cores), tab-delimited ASCII 
data files of each core:  Q585.data.txt, Q200.data.txt, U938.data.txt,
R657.data.txt, CHAT1K.data.txt, P69.data.txt, S794.data.txt, DSDP594.data.txt.

DESCRIPTION:
Planktonic foraaminifer counts and isotope data used to reconstruct late
Quaternary SST and circulation changes in the SW Pacific off New Zealand.