Burdekin River Annual Runoff Reconstruction: Readme file
---------------------------------------------------------------------
                NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
                               and
         World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder
---------------------------------------------------------------------
NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

NAME OF DATA SET: Burdekin River Annual Runoff Reconstruction
LAST UPDATE: 3/2001 (Original Receipt by WDC Paleo)

CONTRIBUTOR: Janice Lough, Australian Institute of Marine Science

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2001-025

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Isdale, P.J., et al., 2001,
Burdekin River Annual Runoff Reconstruction, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2001-025. 
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Isdale, P.J., B.J. Stewart, K.S. Tickle, 
and J.M. Lough, 1998.  Palaeohydrological variation in a 
tropical river catchment: a reconstruction using fluorescent 
bands in corals of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. 
The Holocene, 8: 1-8.	

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: subtropical southwestern Pacific
PERIOD OF RECORD: 1644-1980 AD

LIST OF FILES: Readme_burdekin.txt (this file),
AIMSburdekin.xls (Microsoft Excel format), 
Burdekin_flow.txt, Havannah_fluorescence.txt,
Pandora_fluorescence.txt (tab-delimited ASCII text format).

DESCRIPTION: 
Annual (water year, October-September) runoff (mm) of the Burdekin River, 
Queensland, Australia was reconstructed from intensity of fluorescence 
measured in two coral cores from Havannah and Pandora Reefs 
which lie in the Burdekin River plume.	
	
The following three data sets are provided:	
1) Reconstruction of annual Burdekin River runoff (mm), 1644-1980	

2) Havannah Reef standardized (with respect to long-term mean & sd) 
fluorescence index, 1644-1986	

3) Pandora Reef standardized (with respect to long-term mean & sd) 
fluorescence index, 1737-1980