Kurrimine Beach, Brook Island, Britomart Reef, Great Palm Island, Lodestone Reef, Pandora Reef, Havannah Island - Luminescence master chronology Hendy, E.J.; Gagan, M.K.; Lough, J.M. Hendy, E.J. Gagan, M.K. Lough, J.M. 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 (luminescence,Porites sp.,null,dimensionless,null,corals and sclerosponges,composited,null,N,units are a categorical value) earth science/paleoclimate/corals and sclerosponges (Brook Island>LATITUDE -18.15>LONGITUDE 146.28) (Lodestone Reef>LATITUDE -18.7>LONGITUDE 147.1) (Pandora Reef>LATITUDE -18.82>LONGITUDE 146.43) (Havannah Island>LATITUDE -18.85>LONGITUDE 146.55) (Britomart Reef>LATITUDE -18.23>LONGITUDE 146.73) (Great Palm Island>LATITUDE -18.72>LONGITUDE 146.98) (Kurrimine Beach>LATITUDE -17.78>LONGITUDE 146.13) Eight, multicentury, Porites coral cores were used to develop a 373-year chronology by cross-dating techniques adapted from dendrochronology. Characteristic patterns of distinct luminescent lines within the coral skeletons were matched between coral cores from inshore and mid-shelf reefs in the central Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Skeleton-plots of luminescent banding were produced for each core and combined into a master chronology back to ad 1615. In addition to improving dating control, the luminescence master chronology provides a proxy for Burdekin River runoff and Queensland summer rainfall. Variations in the magnitude of the correlation between the luminescence master and the Mann et al. (2000) NINO3 sea-surface temperaturereconstruction provides insights into the long-term stability of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) teleconnections. Burdekin River runoff was significantly inversely related to ENSO variability for much of the period from the ad 1650s to 1800, suggesting that ENSO-related teleconnections were as dominant then as in recent decades. The extremely dry mid-1760s to mid-1780s stand out as a period of anomalously positive correlation between river runoff and the NINO3 reconstruction. Weak ENSO teleconnections are apparent from the 1800s to 1870s, when conditions were possibly similar to those reported for the 1920s-1950s. NCDC-Paleoclimatology https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data - Bauer Bruce Investigator : Hendy, E.J. Investigator : Gagan, M.K. Investigator : Lough, J.M. 2003-07-01 ONLINE Files online, ASCII https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/1918 https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/west_pacific/great_barrier/gbr-luminescence2003.txt https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/west_pacific/great_barrier/gbr-luminescence2003.txt English https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/1918 https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/west_pacific/great_barrier/gbr-luminescence2003.txt Hendy, E.J., M.K. Gagan, and J.M. Lough. 2003. Chronological control of coral records using luminescent lines and evidence for non-stationary ENSO teleconnections in northeast Australia. The Holocene 13,2 (2003) pp. 187-199. START YEAR: 1612 AD * END YEAR: 1985 AD 146.13 -18.85 147.1 -17.78