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  <Entry_ID>noaa-coral-24690</Entry_ID>
  <Entry_Title>Ras Umm Sidd 245 Year Coral d18O, Sr/Ca, SST and d18Osw Data</Entry_Title>
  <Data_Set_Citation>
    <Dataset_Creator>Felis, T.; Ionita, M.; Rimbu, N.; Lohmann, G.; Kölling, M.</Dataset_Creator>
    <Dataset_Title>Ras Umm Sidd 245 Year Coral d18O, Sr/Ca, SST and d18Osw Data</Dataset_Title>
    <Dataset_Release_Date>2018-07-23</Dataset_Release_Date>
    <Dataset_Publisher>NCDC-Paleoclimatology</Dataset_Publisher>
    <Data_Presentation_Form>ONLINE Files</Data_Presentation_Form>
    <Dataset_DOI>Pending</Dataset_DOI>
    <Online_Resource>https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/24690</Online_Resource>
  </Data_Set_Citation>
  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>T.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Felis</Last_Name>
  </Personnel>
  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>M.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Ionita</Last_Name>
  </Personnel>
  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>N.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Rimbu</Last_Name>
  </Personnel>
  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>G.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Lohmann</Last_Name>
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  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>M.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Kölling</Last_Name>
  </Personnel>
  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>corals and sclerosponges</Term>
    <Detailed_Variable>strontium/calcium,Porites sp.,null,millimole per mole,null,corals and sclerosponges,null,null,N,null</Detailed_Variable>
  </Parameters>
  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>corals and sclerosponges</Term>
    <Detailed_Variable>age,null,null,year Common Era,null,corals and sclerosponges,null,null,N,null</Detailed_Variable>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>corals and sclerosponges</Term>
    <Detailed_Variable>delta 18O,Porites sp.,null,per mil VPDB,annual,corals and sclerosponges,null,isotope ratio mass spectrometry,N,null</Detailed_Variable>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>corals and sclerosponges</Term>
    <Detailed_Variable>strontium/calcium,Porites sp.,null,millimole per mole,annual,corals and sclerosponges,null,null,N,null</Detailed_Variable>
  </Parameters>
  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>climate reconstructions|corals and sclerosponges</Term>
    <Detailed_Variable>age,null,null,year Common Era,null,climate reconstructions|corals and sclerosponges,null,null,N,null</Detailed_Variable>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>corals and sclerosponges</Term>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>climate reconstructions|corals and sclerosponges</Term>
    <Detailed_Variable>sea surface temperature,strontium/calcium,null,degree Celsius,annual,climate reconstructions|corals and sclerosponges,anomalized,null,N,calculated using annual mean proxy-temperature relationship: [-0.140 mmol/mol per degC; Felis et al. Geology 2009]</Detailed_Variable>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>corals and sclerosponges</Term>
    <Variable_Level_1>oxygen isotopes</Variable_Level_1>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>corals and sclerosponges</Term>
    <Variable_Level_1>trace metals</Variable_Level_1>
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  <ISO_Topic_Category>geoscientificInformation</ISO_Topic_Category>
  <Keyword>Sea Surface Temperature Reconstruction</Keyword>
  <Paleo_Temporal_Coverage>
    <Paleo_Start_Date>1751 AD</Paleo_Start_Date>
    <Paleo_Stop_Date>1995 AD</Paleo_Stop_Date>
  </Paleo_Temporal_Coverage>
  <Paleo_Temporal_Coverage>
    <Paleo_Start_Date>199 cal yr BP</Paleo_Start_Date>
    <Paleo_Stop_Date>-45 cal yr BP</Paleo_Stop_Date>
  </Paleo_Temporal_Coverage>
  <Data_Set_Progress>Complete</Data_Set_Progress>
  <Spatial_Coverage>
    <Southernmost_Latitude>27.848333</Southernmost_Latitude>
    <Northernmost_Latitude>27.848333</Northernmost_Latitude>
    <Westernmost_Longitude>34.31</Westernmost_Longitude>
    <Easternmost_Longitude>34.31</Easternmost_Longitude>
    <Minimum_Altitude>-6</Minimum_Altitude>
    <Maximum_Altitude>-6</Maximum_Altitude>
  </Spatial_Coverage>
  <Location>
    <Location_Category>Continent</Location_Category>
    <Location_Type>Africa</Location_Type>
    <Location_Subregion1>Northern Africa</Location_Subregion1>
    <Location_Subregion2>Egypt</Location_Subregion2>
    <Detailed_Location>Ras Umm Sidd&gt;LATITUDE 27.848333&gt;LONGITUDE 34.31</Detailed_Location>
  </Location>
  <Access_Constraints>None</Access_Constraints>
  <Use_Constraints>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.</Use_Constraints>
  <Data_Set_Language>English</Data_Set_Language>
  <Data_Center>
    <Data_Center_Name>
      <Short_Name>DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI</Short_Name>
      <Long_Name>National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce </Long_Name>
    </Data_Center_Name>
    <Data_Center_URL>https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data</Data_Center_URL>
    <Personnel>
      <Role>DATA Center Contact</Role>
      <First_Name>Bruce</First_Name>
      <Last_Name>Bauer</Last_Name>
      <Email>bruce.a.bauer@noaa.gov</Email>
      <Email>paleo@noaa.gov</Email>
      <Phone>303-497-6280</Phone>
      <Fax>303-497-6513</Fax>
      <Contact_Address>
        <Address>325 Broadway, E/NE31</Address>
        <City>Boulder</City>
        <Province_or_State>CO</Province_or_State>
        <Postal_Code>80305-3328</Postal_Code>
        <Country>USA</Country>
      </Contact_Address>
    </Personnel>
  </Data_Center>
  <Distribution>
    <Distribution_Media>online</Distribution_Media>
    <Distribution_Format>ASCII</Distribution_Format>
  </Distribution>
  <Reference>
    <Author>Thomas Felis, Monica Ionita, Norel Rimbu, Gerrit Lohmann, Martin Kölling</Author>
    <Publication_Date>2018</Publication_Date>
    <Title>Mild and Arid Climate in the Eastern Sahara-Arabian Desert During the Late Little Ice Age</Title>
    <Series>Geophysical Research Letters</Series>
    <Volume>45</Volume>
    <DOI>10.1029/2018GL078617</DOI>
    <Online_Resource>https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018GL078617</Online_Resource>
  </Reference>
  <Reference>
    <Author>Thomas Felis, Jürgen Pätzold, Yossi Loya, Maoz Fine, Ahmed H. Nawar, Gerold Wefer</Author>
    <Publication_Date>2000</Publication_Date>
    <Title>A coral oxygen isotope record from the northern Red Sea documenting NAO, ENSO, and North Pacific teleconnections on Middle East climate variability since the year 1750</Title>
    <Series>Paleoceanography</Series>
    <Volume>15</Volume>
    <Issue>6</Issue>
    <Pages>679-694</Pages>
    <DOI>10.1029/1999PA000477</DOI>
    <Online_Resource>https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/1999PA000477</Online_Resource>
  </Reference>
  <Summary>
    <Abstract>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. 
          STUDY NOTES: Coral oxygen isotope (d18O) and strontium/calcium data and reconstructed sea surface temperature and d18Oseawater from northern Red Sea coral RUS-95 collected off Ras Umm Sidd, Egypt, for the past 245 years.  Data are presented at both annual and bimonthly resolution.</Abstract>
  </Summary>
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    <URL>https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/red_sea/ras-umm-sidd2018ann.txt</URL>
    <Description>NOAA Template File; Ras Umm Sidd Annual d18O, Sr/Ca, SST and d18Osw Data</Description>
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      <Type>GET DATA</Type>
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    <URL>https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/red_sea/ras-umm-sidd2018bmon.txt</URL>
    <Description>NOAA Template File; Ras Umm Sidd Bimonthly d18O and Sr/Ca Data</Description>
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    <Short_Name>USA/NOAA</Short_Name>
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  <Metadata_Version>Version 9.8.4</Metadata_Version>
  <DIF_Creation_Date>2018-12-11</DIF_Creation_Date>
  <Last_DIF_Revision_Date>2018-12-11</Last_DIF_Revision_Date>
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