# Uamh an Tartair, Scotland 1000Yr Stalagmite SU967 Stable Isotope Data #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder # and # NOAA Paleoclimatology Program #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # NOTE: Please cite Publication, and Online_Resource and date accessed when using these data. # If there is no publication information, please cite Investigators, Title, and Online_Resource and date accessed. # # # Online_Resource: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo/f?p=519:1:::::P1_STUDY_ID:10072 # # Online_Resource: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/24611 # # Original_Source_URL: http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/speleothem/europe/scotland/tartair2011.txt # # Description/Documentation lines begin with # # Data lines have no # # # Archive: Speleothems #-------------------- # Contribution_Date # Date: 2011-01 #-------------------- # Title # Study_Name: Uamh an Tartair, Scotland 1000Yr Stalagmite SU967 Stable Isotope Data #-------------------- # Investigators # Investigators: Baker, A.; Wilson, R.; Fairchild, I.J.; Franke, J.; Spötl, C.; Mattey, D.; Trouet, V.; Fuller, L. #-------------------- # Description_and_Notes # Description: # Stable isotope (d18O and d13C) data at near-annual resolution from a stalagmite from northwestern Scotland. Stalagmite SU967 was micro-milled at 100 micron resolution and analysed for delta 18O and 13C to obtain a record of these stable isotopes for the last 1000 years. The same stalagmite contains continuous annual laminae. The lamina width record has been previously shown to provide a climate record of rainfall amount and the North Atlantic Oscillation (Proctor et al. 2000, 2002; Trouet et al. 2009) and is archived at the WDC. In contrast, delta O-18 and 13-C cannot be interpreted as simple paleoclimate proxies. # Stalagmite SU967 was milled at 100 micron resolution. Every fifth sample was extended to provide marker horizons. The stalagmite was reimaged using UV microscopy to enable a chronology for the stable isotope series to be built using the lamina width record. Each milled isotope sample integrates from <1 yr to c.10 years of speleothem accumulation, depending on growth rate. The calendar ages given are our best estimate of the start date for each mill, and therefore apply to subsequent years where growth rates are slow. Ages have the uncertainty of the original laminae chronology as archived at the WDC (see Proctor et al. 2002). # Uamh an Tartair is part of the Cnoc nan Uamh cave system, 3 km east of Inchnadamph in Assynt, in Northwest Scotland. UK National Grid Reference NC 276 206 #-------------------- # Publication # Authors: Baker, A.; Wilson, R.; Fairchild, I.J.; Franke, J.; Spötl, C.; Mattey, D.; Trouet, V.; Fuller, L. # Published_Date_or_Year: 2011 # Published_Title: High resolution d18O and d13C records from an annually laminated Scottish stalagmite and relationship with last millennium climate. # Journal_Name: Global and Planetary Change. # Volume: # Edition: # Issue: # Pages: # DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.12.007 # Online_Resource: # Full_Citation: Baker, A., R. Wilson, I.J. Fairchild, J. Franke, C. Spötl, D. Mattey, V. Trouet, and L. Fuller. 2011. High resolution d18O and d13C records from an annually laminated Scottish stalagmite and relationship with last millennium climate. Global and Planetary Change. doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.12.007 # Abstract: High-resolution (annual to decadal) stable isotope records of oxygen and carbon are analysed from an annually laminated stalagmite from NW Scotland. The sample, which was deposited for ~1000 yrs until 1996 AD, has previously provided annual resolution climate reconstructions of local rainfall and regional winter North Atlantic Oscillation (wNAO) from variations in annual growth rate. For our stalagmite, for which modern cave monitoring demonstrates that equilibrium deposition is highly likely for d18O but not for d13C, stalagmite d13C originally derives from soil CO2 produced predominantly by microbial respiration, modified by degassing-related kinetic fractionation, and d18O from the composition of infiltrating water during periods of infiltrating water. Both the presence of fluorescent laminae and modern drip-water monitoring demonstrate a drip hydrology that comprises both event and storage components. Over the instrumental period, no correlations between stalagmite or rainfall d18O and precipitation amount or temperature are observed, but correlations are observed between rainfall d18O and 500 mb height at regional IAEA monitoring stations. However, no correlations are observed between stalagmite d18O and instrumental and reconstructed atmospheric circulation, preventing a simple palaeoclimate interpretation of the stalagmite d18O proxy. Stalagmite d13C has a stronger temporal autocorrelation than d18O, indicative of soil mixing of respired CO2 and significant variability between drips and at different times; correlations with instrumental climate data are therefore not possible. The relative timing of changes in growth rate, d18O and d13C are discussed, and interpretations compared with other regional climate records. We conclude that, over the last millennium at this mid-latitude cave site, neither d18O nor d13C cannot be interpreted as a simple paleoclimate proxy. #------------------ # Authors: Anderson, D.M., Tardif, R., Horlick, K., Erb, M.P., Hakim, G.J., Noone, D., Perkins, W.A., and E. Steig # Published_Date_or_Year: 2018 # Published_Title: Additions to the last millennium reanalysis multi-proxy database # Journal_Name: Data Science Journal # Volume: # Edition: # Issue: # Pages: # Report_Number: # DOI: # Online_Resource: # Full_Citation: Anderson, D.M., Tardif, R., Horlick, K., Erb, M.P., Hakim, G., J., Noone, D., Perkins, W.A., and E. Steig, submitted. Additions to the last millennium reanalysis multi-proxy database. Data Science Journal. # Abstract: Progress in paleoclimatology increasingly occurs via data syntheses. We describe additions to a collection prepared for use in paleoclimate state estimation, specifically the Last Millennium Reanalysis (LMR). The 2290 additional series include 2152 tree ring chronologies and 138 other series. They supplement the collection used previously and together form a database titled LMRdb 1.0.0. The additional data draws from lake core, ice core, coral, speleothem, and tree ring archives, using published data primarily from the NOAA Paleoclimatology archive and a set of tree ring width chronologies standardized from raw International Tree Ring Data Bank ring width series. In contrast to many previous paleo compilations, the data were not selected (screened) on the basis of their environmental correlation, multi-century length, or other attributes. The inclusion of proxies sensitive to moisture and other environmental variables expands their use in data assimilation. A preliminary calibration using linear regression with mean annual temperature reveals characteristics of the proxy series and their relationship to temperature, as well as the noise and error characteristics of the records. The additional records are structured as individual files in the NOAA Paleoclimatology format and archived at NOAA Paleoclimatology (Anderson et al. 2018) and will continue to be improved and expanded as part of the LMR Project. The additions represent a four-fold increase in the number of records available for assimilation, provide expanded geographic coverage, and add additional proxy variables. Applications include data assimilation, proxy system model development, and paleoclimate reconstruction using climate field reconstruction and other methods. #------------------ # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: NERC # Grant: NER/T/S/2002/00986 #------------------ # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: Leverhulme Trust International Network # Grant: #------------------ # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: European Union FR-6 "Millennium" project # Grant: #------------------ # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: European Science Foundation # Grant: #------------------ # Funding_Agency_Name: National Science Foundation # Grant:AGS-1304263 # Funding_Agency_Name: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration # Grant:NA14OAR4310176 #------------------ # Site_Information # Site_Name: Uamh an Tartair Cave, Assynt, Scotland, United Kingdom # Location: Europe>Northern Europe>British Isles>United Kingdom # Country: United Kingdom # Northernmost_Latitude: 58.15 # Southernmost_Latitude: 58.15 # Easternmost_Longitude: -4.98 # Westernmost_Longitude: -4.98 # Elevation: 220 m #------------------ # Data_Collection # Collection_Name: 11unit01a # Earliest_Year: 1004 # Most_Recent_Year: 1991 # Time_Unit: y_ad # Core_Length: # Notes: {"database":"LMR"} #------------------ # Species # Species_Name: # Common_Name: #------------------ # Chronology: # # # # # # # # #---------------- # Variables # # Data variables follow that are preceded by "##" in columns one and two. # Data line variables format: Variables list, one per line, shortname-tab-longname-tab-longname components (9 components: what, material, error, units, seasonality, archive, detail, method, C or N for Character or Numeric data) # ##age age, , , years AD, , , , ,N ##d13C delta 13 Carbon,,,permil VPDB,,Speleothems,,,N ##d18O delta 18 Oxygen,,,permil VPDB,,Speleothems,,,N # #---------------- # Data: # Data lines follow (have no #) # Data line format - tab-delimited text, variable short name as 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