Espiritu Santo Island - Stable Isotope Data Quinn, T.M.; Crowley, T.J.; Taylor, F.W. Quinn, T.M. Crowley, T.J. Taylor, F.W. PAGES 2k Network PAGES Australasia 2k earth science/paleoclimate/corals and sclerosponges (age,null,null,year Common Era,null,corals and sclerosponges,null,null,N,null) earth science/paleoclimate/corals and sclerosponges (delta 13C,Platygyra lamellina,null,per mil PDB,annual,corals and sclerosponges,averaged,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N,average of 4 samples) earth science/paleoclimate/corals and sclerosponges (delta 13C,Platygyra lamellina,null,per mil PDB,annual,corals and sclerosponges,averaged,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N,average of 2 samples) earth science/paleoclimate/corals and sclerosponges (delta 18O,Platygyra lamellina,null,per mil PDB,annual,corals and sclerosponges,averaged,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N,average of 4 samples) earth science/paleoclimate/corals and sclerosponges (delta 18O,Platygyra lamellina,null,per mil PDB,annual,corals and sclerosponges,averaged,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N,average of 2 samples) earth science/paleoclimate/corals and sclerosponges earth science/paleoclimate/corals and sclerosponges (Espiritu Santo Island>LATITUDE -15>LONGITUDE 167) Long coral records provide valuable information on pentadal-decadal scale climate variability. Proviously we have reported on a preliminary analysis of a 173-year record (1806-1978) from the island of Espriritu Santo, Republic of Vanuatu. Although this record contained information in the pentada-decadal band, low sampling resolution raised questions about the validity of the results. Herein we report new data from the Santo reord, in which the sampling resolution has been doubled and the validation database expanded. Variations in coral delta 18O at Santo record the combined effects of variations in SST and rainfal-induced salinity changes. The most prominent spectral peaks in the time series are at the annual cycle and 13-15 and 7.4 years. The robust occurrence of the 14-15 year peak provides additional support to the importance of this oscillation as a cause of decadal-scale climate variability. Overall, our new results provide greater credibility to the conclusions raised in the earlier study and indicate the the Santo record can more confidently be incorporated into the still-small network of multicentury coral records of climate change. NCDC-Paleoclimatology https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data - Bauer Bruce Investigator : Quinn, T.M. Investigator : Crowley, T.J. Investigator : Taylor, F.W. 1994-08-01 ONLINE Files online, ASCII https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/1839 https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/west_pacific/quinn1996_noaa.txt https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/image/van2yr18o.gif https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/image/van2yr13c.gif https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/west_pacific/quinn1996_noaa.txt https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/image/van2yr18o.gif https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/image/van2yr13c.gif English https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/1839 https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/west_pacific/quinn1996_noaa.txt https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/image/van2yr18o.gif https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/image/van2yr13c.gif Quinn, T.M.; Crowley, T.J.; Taylor, F.W1996New stable isotope results from a 173-year coral record from Espiritu Santo, VanuatuGeophysical Research Letters23 Quinn, T.M.; Crowley, T.J.; Taylor, F.W1993A 173 Year Stable Isotope Record from a Tropical South Pacific CoralQuaternary Science Reviews12 START YEAR: 1806 AD * END YEAR: 1980 AD 167 -15 167 -15