noaa-cave-13543
Oregon Caves National Monument 13,000 Year Stalagmite Stable Isotope Data
Ersek, V.; Clark, P.U.; Mix, A.C.; Cheng, H.; Edwards, R.L.
Oregon Caves National Monument 13,000 Year Stalagmite Stable Isotope Data
2012-11-29
NCDC-Paleoclimatology
ONLINE Files
Pending
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/13543
Investigator
V.
Ersek
Investigator
P.U.
Clark
Investigator
A.C.
Mix
Investigator
H.
Cheng
Investigator
R.L.
Edwards
earth science
paleoclimate
speleothems
depth,null,null,millimeter,null,speleothems,null,null,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
speleothems
delta 18O,calcium carbonate,null,per mil VPDB,null,speleothems,corrected,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N,corrected for ice volume
earth science
paleoclimate
speleothems
delta 18O,calcium carbonate,null,per mil VPDB,null,speleothems,raw,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
speleothems
age,null,null,calendar kiloyear before present,null,speleothems,null,null,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
speleothems
delta 13C,calcium carbonate,null,per mil VPDB,null,speleothems,raw,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N,null
earth science
paleoclimate
speleothems
delta 13C,calcium carbonate,null,per mil VPDB,null,speleothems,averaged|interpolated|smoothed,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N,interpolated to 4-year time steps: first block-averaging in 1-year increments for any subannual resolution and then using Gaussian interpolation with a smoothing window of 30 years
earth science
paleoclimate
speleothems
delta 18O,calcium carbonate,null,per mil VPDB,null,speleothems,averaged|interpolated|smoothed,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N,interpolated to 4-year time steps: first block-averaging in 1-year increments for any subannual resolution and then using Gaussian interpolation with a smoothing window of 30 years
earth science
paleoclimate
speleothems
carbon isotopes
earth science
paleoclimate
speleothems
oxygen isotopes
geoscientificInformation
Pacific Decadal Oscillation
13320 cal yr BP
234 cal yr BP
Complete
42.0981
42.0981
-123.4072
-123.4072
1300
1300
Continent
North America
United States Of America
Oregon
Oregon Caves National Monument>LATITUDE 42.0981>LONGITUDE -123.4072
None
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DATA Center Contact
Bruce
Bauer
bruce.a.bauer@noaa.gov
paleo@noaa.gov
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online
ASCII
Ersek, Vasile, Peter U. Clark, Alan C. Mix, Hai Cheng, and R. Lawrence Edwards. 2012.
Holocene winter climate variability in mid-latitude western North America.
Nature Communications, Vol. 3, No. 1219.
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2222
Water resources in western North America depend on winter precipitation, yet our knowledge of its sensitivity to climate change remains limited. Similarly, understanding the potential for future loss of winter snow pack requires a longer perspective on natural climate variability. Here we use stable isotopes from a speleothem in southwestern Oregon to reconstruct winter climate change for much of the past 13,000 years. We find that on millennial time scales there were abrupt transitions between warm-dry and cold-wet regimes. Temperature and precipitation changes on multi-decadal to century timescales are consistent with ocean-atmosphere interactions that arise from mechanisms similar to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Extreme cold-wet and warm-dry events that punctuated the Holocene appear to be sensitive to solar forcing, possibly through the influence of the equatorial Pacific on the winter storm tracks reaching the US Pacific Northwest region.
STUDY NOTES: Oxygen and carbon stable isotope data from stalagmite OCN02-1 collected in Oregon Caves National Monument
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https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/speleothem/northamerica/usa/oregon/oregoncaves2012ersek.txt
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https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/speleothem/northamerica/usa/oregon/oregoncaves2012vacco.txt
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