SISAL (Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis Working Group) database version 2.0

Description

Stable isotope records from speleothems provide information on past climate changes, most particularly information that can be used to reconstruct past changes in precipitation and atmospheric circulation. SISAL (Speleothem Isotope Synthesis and Analysis) is an international working group of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) project. The working group aims to provide a comprehensive compilation of speleothem isotope records for climate reconstruction and model evaluation. The second version of the SISAL database contains oxygen and carbon isotope measurements from 673 individual speleothem records, and 18 composites from 293 cave systems worldwide, and metadata describing the cave settings and age models of these records. This version also contains 2,138 alternative age-depth models constructed for 503 SISAL entities.

In order to assure traceability, any presentation, report, or publication that uses the SISALv2 database should cite Atsawawaranunt et al. (2018; https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1687-2018), Comas-Bru et al. (2019; https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1557-2019) and Comas-Bru et al. (2020; https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2020-39). If using individual sites, the literature citations for published work provided in the database should also be cited. Contact information of data contributors of unpublished data is also provided and these should be contacted when unpublished records are used on an individual basis.

Resource Type:	Dataset
Creators:	Comas-Bru, Laia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7882-4996, Atsawawaranunt, Kamolphat ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3995-5448, Harrison, Sandy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5687-1903 and SISAL working group members
Rights-holders:	University of Reading, University College Dublin
Data Publisher:	University of Reading
Publication Year:	2020
Data last accessed:	20 December 2024
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.256
Metadata Record URL:	https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/256
Organisational units:	Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Department of Geography and Environmental Science
Participating Organisations:	University of Reading, University College Dublin
Keywords:	SISAL, speleothem, speleothems, carbon isotopes, oxygen isotopes, isotope, isotopes, database
Rights:	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Data Availability:	OPEN
Additional details Additional details Project Name: SISAL (Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and Analysis) Funders: Past Global Changes (PAGES) programme European Research Council (694481) Geological Survey of Ireland (2017-SC-056) Natural Environment Research Council (NE/P006752/1) Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Resource Language: English Collection period: From 2017 To 2020 Geographic coverage: Global Data collection method: Synthesis of speleothem data Depositing User: Dr Laia Comas Bru Date Deposited: 13 Jul 2020 10:07 Last Modified: 19 Dec 2024 05:20

Available Versions of this Item

• SISAL (Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis Working Group) database Version 1.0. (deposited 04 Jun 2018 07:14)
  • SISAL (Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis Working Group) database version 1b. (deposited 13 Feb 2019 15:30)
    • SISAL (Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis Working Group) database version 2.0. (deposited 20 Feb 2020 11:22)
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