Millennial-scale Changes in North Atlantic Circulation Data: Readme file
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE CONTRIBUTORS WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!


NAME OF DATA SET: Millennial-scale Changes in North Atlantic Circulation Data
LAST UPDATE: 6/98 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTORS: Marchitto, T.M., Curry, W.B., and Oppo, D.W..

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 1998-025

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION:  Marchitto, T.M., Curry, W.B., and Oppo, D.W., 1998,
Millennial-scale Changes in North Atlantic Circulation Data, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series # 1998-025.  
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA.

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Marchitto, T.M., Curry, W.B., and Oppo, D.W., 1998
Millennial-scale changes in North Atlantic circulation since the last glaciation,
Nature, v.393: pp. 557-561, 11 June 1998.


FUNDING SOURCE: NSF, USA
GEOGRAPHIC REGION: North Atlantic 
PERIOD OF RECORD: Last Glacial Maximum, ~18KYrBP
LIST OF FILES: Marchitto1998.readme.txt (this file), Tab-delimited ASCII 
data files  103GGC.txt, core.txt, holocene-LGM.txt.  

DESCRIPTION:  
Cd, d13C, and d18O from Bahama Banks, used to reconstruct Millennial-scale 
Changes in North Atlantic Circulation.

All CdW data are from the benthic foram Hoeglundina elegans,
using a distribution coefficient of 1
CdW data marked with "?" are suspected to be contaminated;
these few data are not included in calculated means
See Marchitto et al. (1998) for additional information

Units:
CdW: nmol/kg
d13C, d18O: per mil (PDB)

Precision:
CdW: ~0.03
d13C: 0.04 for samples >= 10 ug
d18O: 0.08 for samples >= 10 ug