Secas Island Coral d18O: Readme file
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                   NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
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              World Data Center for Paleoclimatology
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

NAME OF DATA SET: Secas Island Coral d18O
LAST UPDATE: 8/1995 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  


CONTRIBUTORS: Linsley, B.K., R.B. Dunbar, G.M. Wellington, and D.A. Mucciarone.
IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER:  1998-017

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Linsley, et al., Secas Island coral d18O, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series # 1998-017.  NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, 
Boulder CO, USA.

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Linsley, B.K., R.B. Dunbar, G.M. Wellington, and D.A. Mucciarone, 1994,
A coral-based reconstruction of Intertropical Convergence Zone variability over 
Central America since 1707, Journal of Geophysical Research, 
vol 99, No. C5, pp 9977-9994.	

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Central America
PERIOD OF RECORD: 1707 - 1984 A.D.

LIST OF FILES: secas-10yr-iso.txt 

DESCRIPTION: 
Secas Island Coral d18O, used to reconstruct seasonal and interannual 
variability in the Intertropical Convergence Zone.

Site Location:  Secas Island, Gulf of Chiriqui, Panama, 7'59 N, 82'3W.

Secas Island Coral (S1), collected live, June, 1984.  Age model and isotope data 
as published in Linsley et al, 1994, JGR,  vol 99, No. C5,pp 9977-9994, 1994.	

There is a core gap between 2009 and 2010 mm, with an estimated 1 year 
of missing data (see Linsley et al., 1994)