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  <Entry_ID>noaa-ocean-18815</Entry_ID>
  <Entry_Title>Little Bahama Bank 900 Year Sediment Grain Size Data</Entry_Title>
  <Data_Set_Citation>
    <Dataset_Creator>van Hengstum, P.J.; Donnelly, J.P.; Toomey, M.R.; Albury, N.A.; Lane, P.; Kakuk, B.</Dataset_Creator>
    <Dataset_Title>Little Bahama Bank 900 Year Sediment Grain Size Data</Dataset_Title>
    <Dataset_Release_Date>2015-06-05</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/18815</Online_Resource>
  </Data_Set_Citation>
  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>P.J.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>van Hengstum</Last_Name>
  </Personnel>
  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>J.P.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Donnelly</Last_Name>
  </Personnel>
  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>M.R.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Toomey</Last_Name>
  </Personnel>
  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>N.A.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Albury</Last_Name>
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  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>P.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Lane</Last_Name>
  </Personnel>
  <Personnel>
    <Role>Investigator</Role>
    <First_Name>B.</First_Name>
    <Last_Name>Kakuk</Last_Name>
  </Personnel>
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    <Term>paleoceanography</Term>
    <Detailed_Variable>sand,sediment,null,dimensionless,null,paleoceanography,normalized,null,N,null</Detailed_Variable>
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    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>paleoceanography</Term>
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    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>paleoceanography</Term>
    <Detailed_Variable>sand,sediment,null,weight percent,null,paleoceanography,null,null,N,null</Detailed_Variable>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>paleoceanography</Term>
    <Detailed_Variable>age,null,95% confidence interval upper bound,year Common Era,null,paleoceanography,null,null,N,null</Detailed_Variable>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>paleoceanography</Term>
    <Detailed_Variable>age,null,null,year Common Era,null,paleoceanography,averaged,null,N,mean age</Detailed_Variable>
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  <Parameters>
    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>paleoceanography</Term>
    <Detailed_Variable>silt,sediment,null,weight percent,null,paleoceanography,null,null,N,null</Detailed_Variable>
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    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>paleoceanography</Term>
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    <Term>paleoceanography</Term>
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    <Category>earth science</Category>
    <Topic>paleoclimate</Topic>
    <Term>paleocean</Term>
    <Variable_Level_1>physical properties</Variable_Level_1>
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  <ISO_Topic_Category>geoscientificInformation</ISO_Topic_Category>
  <Keyword>Hurricanes and Tropical Cyclones Reconstruction</Keyword>
  <Paleo_Temporal_Coverage>
    <Paleo_Start_Date>1061 AD</Paleo_Start_Date>
    <Paleo_Stop_Date>1998 AD</Paleo_Stop_Date>
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  <Paleo_Temporal_Coverage>
    <Paleo_Start_Date>889 cal yr BP</Paleo_Start_Date>
    <Paleo_Stop_Date>-48 cal yr BP</Paleo_Stop_Date>
  </Paleo_Temporal_Coverage>
  <Data_Set_Progress>Complete</Data_Set_Progress>
  <Spatial_Coverage>
    <Southernmost_Latitude>26.323369</Southernmost_Latitude>
    <Northernmost_Latitude>26.323369</Northernmost_Latitude>
    <Westernmost_Longitude>-77.293362</Westernmost_Longitude>
    <Easternmost_Longitude>-77.293362</Easternmost_Longitude>
    <Minimum_Altitude>-15</Minimum_Altitude>
    <Maximum_Altitude>-15</Maximum_Altitude>
  </Spatial_Coverage>
  <Location>
    <Location_Category>Ocean</Location_Category>
    <Location_Type>Atlantic Ocean</Location_Type>
    <Location_Subregion1>North Atlantic Ocean</Location_Subregion1>
    <Location_Subregion2>Caribbean Sea</Location_Subregion2>
    <Location_Subregion3>Bahamas</Location_Subregion3>
    <Detailed_Location>Thatchpoint Bluehole&gt;LATITUDE 26.323369&gt;LONGITUDE -77.293362</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>Peter J. van Hengstum, Jeffrey P. Donnelly, Michael R. Toomey, Nancy A. Albury, Philip Lane, Brian Kakuk</Author>
    <Publication_Date>2014</Publication_Date>
    <Title>Heightened hurricane activity on the Little Bahama Bank from 1350 to 1650 AD</Title>
    <Series>Continental Shelf Research</Series>
    <Volume>86</Volume>
    <Pages>103-115</Pages>
    <DOI>10.1016/j.csr.2013.04.032</DOI>
    <Online_Resource>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278434313001325</Online_Resource>
  </Reference>
  <Reference>
    <Author>Jeffrey P. Donnelly, Andrea D. Hawkes, Philip Lane, Dana MacDonald, Bryan N. Shuman, Michael R. Toomey, Peter J. van Hengstum, Jonathan D. Woodruff</Author>
    <Publication_Date>2015</Publication_Date>
    <Title>Climate forcing of unprecedented intense-hurricane activity in the last 2000 years</Title>
    <Series>Earth&apos;s Future</Series>
    <Volume>3</Volume>
    <Issue>2</Issue>
    <Pages>49-65</Pages>
    <DOI>10.1002/2014EF000274</DOI>
    <Online_Resource>http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014EF000274/full</Online_Resource>
  </Reference>
  <Summary>
    <Abstract>How climate controls hurricane variability has critical implications for society is not well understood. In part, our understanding is hampered by the short and incomplete observational hurricane record. Here we present a synthesis of intense-hurricane activity from the western North Atlantic over the past two millennia, which is supported by a new, exceptionally well-resolved record from Salt Pond, Massachusetts (USA). At Salt Pond, three coarse grained event beds deposited in the historical interval are consistent with severe hurricanes in 1991 (Bob), 1675, and 1635 C.E., and provide modern analogs for 32 other prehistoric event beds. Two intervals of heightened frequency of event bed deposition between 1400 and 1675 C.E. (10 events) and 150 and 1150 C.E. (23 events), represent the local expression of coherent regional patterns in intense-hurricane-induced event beds. Our synthesis indicates that much of the western North Atlantic appears to have been active between 250 and 1150 C.E., with high levels of activity persisting in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico until 1400 C.E. This interval was one with relatively warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the main development region (MDR). A shift in activity to the North American east coast occurred ca. 1400 C.E., with more frequent severe hurricane strikes recorded from The Bahamas to New England between 1400 and 1675 C.E. A warm SST anomaly along the western North Atlantic, rather than within the MDR, likely contributed to the later active interval being restricted to the east coast. 
          STUDY NOTES: Grainsize data from Thatchpoint Bluehole, Abaco, Bahamas, van Hengstum et al. (2014), with updated age model as presented in Donnelly et al. (2015).</Abstract>
  </Summary>
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      <Type>GET DATA</Type>
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    <URL>https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/contributions_by_author/vanhengstum2014/thatchpoint2014.txt</URL>
    <Description>Data File; Thatchpoint Bluehole Grainsize Data</Description>
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    <Short_Name>USA/NOAA</Short_Name>
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  <DIF_Creation_Date>2018-12-11</DIF_Creation_Date>
  <Last_DIF_Revision_Date>2018-12-11</Last_DIF_Revision_Date>
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