Clipperton Atoll Coral Stable Isotope Data: readme file
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE CONTRIBUTORS WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!


NAME OF DATA SET:  Clipperton Atoll Coral Stable Isotope Data
LAST UPDATE: 9/00 (Addition of core 2B and 3C data)  

CONTRIBUTORS: Linsley, B.K., Ren, L., R.B. Dunbar, and Howe, S.S.
IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER:  2000-048

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Linsley, et al., Clipperton Atoll Coral Stable 
Isotope Data, IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series # 2000-048.  NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, 
Boulder CO, USA.

ORIGINAL REFERENCES: 
Linsley, B.K., Ren, L., R.B. Dunbar, and Howe, S.S., 2000,
El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and decadal-scale climate 
variability at 10N in the eastern Pacific from 1893 to 1994:
A coral-based reconstruction of from Clipperton Atoll, 
Paleoceanography, vol 15, No. 3, pp 322-335, June 2000.

Linsley, B., R. Messier, et al., 1999, Assessing between colony oxygen
isotope variability in the coral Porites lobata at Clipperton Atoll.
Coral Reefs 18(1): 13-27.	

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Eastern equatorial Pacific
PERIOD OF RECORD: 1893-1994 A.D.

LIST OF FILES: Readme.Clipperton.txt (this file), 
clipperton.4B.iso.txt, clipperton.4B.iso.12yr.txt, 
clipperton.2B.iso.txt, clipperton.3C.iso.txt 
(Tab-delimited text format).

DESCRIPTION: 
Data from Clipperton Atoll (109 deg  13'W, 10 deg 18'N)

GPS fixes on each colony were not collected.  
Data users should refer to Linsley et al., 1999 for colony location.

Collection water depths are as follows:
Core 2B 13.1m 
Core 3C 12.5m 
Core 4B  8.2m

101 year stable isotope record from P. lobata, core 4B, 
Clipperton Atoll, eastern Pacific.  
Sampling at annual and 12/year resolution, files 
clipperton.4B.iso.txt and clipperton.4B.iso.12yr.txt.  

25 year stable isotope record, spanning 1994 to 1970, 
from cores 3C and 2B, Clipperton Atoll, 
as shown in Linsley et al 1999.
Files clipperton.2B.iso.txt and clipperton.3C.iso.txt.