noaa-coral-1861 Ras Umm Sidd - del18O Data Felis, T.; Pätzold, J.; Loya, Y.; Fine, M.; Nawar, A.H.; Wefer, G. Ras Umm Sidd - del18O Data 2000-07-01 NCDC-Paleoclimatology ONLINE Files Pending https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/1861 Investigator T. Felis Investigator J. Pätzold Investigator Y. Loya Investigator M. Fine Investigator A.H. Nawar Investigator G. Wefer 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 18O,Porites sp.,null,per mil VPDB,null,corals and sclerosponges,interpolated,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N,null earth science paleoclimate corals and sclerosponges oxygen isotopes geoscientificInformation 1750 AD 1995 AD 200 cal yr BP -45 cal yr BP Complete 27.848333 27.848333 34.31 34.31 -6 -6 Continent Africa Northern Africa Egypt Ras Umm Sidd>LATITUDE 27.848333>LONGITUDE 34.31 None Please cite original publication, online resource, dataset and publication DOIs (where available), and date accessed when using downloaded data. If there is no publication information, please cite investigator, title, online resource, and date accessed. The appearance of external links associated with a dataset does not constitute endorsement by the Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of external Web sites or the information, products or services contained therein. For other than authorized activities, the Department of Commerce/NOAA does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. These links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of this Department of Commerce/NOAA Web site. English DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data DATA Center Contact Bruce Bauer bruce.a.bauer@noaa.gov paleo@noaa.gov 303-497-6280 303-497-6513

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Boulder CO 80305-3328 USA online ASCII Thomas Felis, Jürgen Pätzold, Yossi Loya, Maoz Fine, Ahmed H. Nawar, Gerold Wefer 2000 Paleoceanography 15 6 679-694 10.1029/1999PA000477 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/1999PA000477 Felis, T., G. Lohmann, H. Kuhnert, S.J. Lorenz, D. Scholz, J. Pätzold, S.A. Al-Rousan, and S.M. Al-Moghrabi. 2004. Increased seasonality in Middle East temperatures during the last interglacial period. Nature 429(6988):164-168. Rimbu, N.; Lohmann, G.; Felis, T.; Pätzold, J 2001 Geophysical Research Letters 28 15 10.1029/2001GL013083 Rimbu, N.; Lohmann, G.; Felis, T.; Pätzold, J 2003 Journal of Climate 16 10.1175/1520-0442-16.9.1414

A 245-year coral oxygen isotope record from the northern Red Sea (Ras Umm Sidd/Egypt, ~28N) in bimonthly resolution is presented. The mean annual coral d18O signal apparently reflects varying proportions of both sea surface temperature and d18Oseawater variability. In conjunction with instrumental observations of climate the coral record suggests for interannual and longer timescales that colder periods are accompanied by more arid conditions in the northern Red Sea but increased rainfall in the southeastern Mediterranean, whereas warmer periods are accompanied by decreased rainfall in the latter and less arid conditions in the northern Red Sea. A ~70-year oscillation of probably North Atlantic origin dominates the coral time series. Interannual to interdecadal variability is correlated with instrumental indices of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and North Pacific climate variability. The results suggest that these modes contributed consistently to Middle East climate variability since at least 1750, preferentially at a period of ~5.7 years.

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