Palmyra Island Monthly Coral Oxygen Isotope Data: 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: Palmyra Island Monthly Coral Oxygen Isotope Data
LAST UPDATE: 5/2001 (Original Receipt by WDC Paleo)

CONTRIBUTORS: Kim Cobb and Chris Charles, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2001-043

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Cobb, K. and C. Charles, 2001,
Palmyra Island Monthly Coral Oxygen Isotope Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2001-043. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE:  Cobb, K. M., C.D. Charles, and D.E. Hunter, 2001, 
A central tropical Pacific coral demonstrates Pacific, Indian, and 
Atlantic decadal climate connections. 
Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 28 , No. 11 , p. 2209, June 1, 2001.

FUNDING SOURCES:
The NOAA Scripps-Lamont Consortium funded this project. 
The 1998 cruise to Palmyra was funded by 
HRH Prince Khaled Bin Sultan Bin Abdulaziz, K.C.B.,
who generously granted us the use of his vessel, 
the M.Y. Golden Shadow.


GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Central Tropical Pacific
PERIOD OF RECORD: 1886-1998 AD

LIST OF FILES: Readme_Palmyra.txt (this file),
palmyra.txt (tab-delimited ASCII text format).

DESCRIPTION: 
Palmyra Island Monthly Coral Oxygen Isotope Data.
112-yr, monthly-resolved coral record from Palmyra Island 
(5°52'N, 162°8'W). The coral was drilled in ~30' of water 
from the reef flat extending off the west side of the island. 
The data are in two columns:  date (in year) and oxygen isotopic 
value (per mill).  The data are monthly samples of the raw 
dataset and have not been deseasoned or detrended. 
We calculate the analytical precision at <0.05 per mill, 
based on over 500 measurements of an internal aragonitic 
laboratory standard measured while running the Palmyra coral.