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SISALv2: A comprehensive speleothem isotope database with multiple age-depth models

Laia Comas-Bru1, Kira Rehfeld2, Carla Roesch2, Sahar Amirnezhad-Mozhdehi3, Sandy P. Harrison1, Kamolphat Atsawawaranunt1, Syed Masood Ahmad4, Yassine Ait Brahim5, Andy Baker6, Matthew Bosomworth1, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach7, Yuval Burstyn8, Andrea Columbu9, Michael Deininger10, Attila Demény11, Bronwyn Dixon12, Jens Fohlmeister13, István Gábor Hatvani11, Jun Hu14, Nikita Kaushal15, Zoltán Kern11, Inga Labuhn16, Franziska A. Lechleitner17, Andrew Lorrey18, Belen Martrat19, Valdir Felipe Novello20, Jessica Oster21, Carlos Pérez-Mejías5, Denis Scholz10, Nick Scroxton22, Nitesh Sinha23, Brittany Marie Ward24, Sophie Warken25, Haiwei Zhang5, and the SISAL members Laia Comas-Bru et al.
  • 1School of Archaeology, Geography, and Environmental Science, University of Reading, UK
  • 2Institute of Environmental Physics and Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg University, Germany
  • 3School of Geography. University College Dublin. Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
  • 4Department of Geography, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
  • 5Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
  • 6Connected Waters Initiative Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
  • 7Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  • 8The Fredy & Nadine Herrmann Institute Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Edmond J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel
  • 9Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences (BiGeA), University of Bologna, Via Zamboni 67, 40126, Bologna, Italy
  • 10Institute for Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, J.-J.-Becher-Weg 21, 55128 Mainz, Germany
  • 11Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, Research Centre for Astronomyand Earth Sciences, 1112, Budaörsi út 45, Budapest, Hungary
  • 12School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia; School of Archaeology, Geography, and Environmental Science, University of Reading, UK
  • 13Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK, Potsdam, Germany
  • 14Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Rice University, USA
  • 15Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • 16Institute of Geography, University of Bremen, Celsiusstraße 2, 28359 Bremen, Germany
  • 17Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3AN, UK
  • 18National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand
  • 19Department of Environmental Chemistry, Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Barcelona, Spain20 Institute of Geoscience, University of São Paulo, Brazil
  • 20Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA
  • 21Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA
  • 22School of Earth Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
  • 23IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP), Pusan National University, South Korea
  • 24Environmental Research Institute, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
  • 25Institute of Earth Sciences and Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany
  • A full list of authors appears at the end of the paper

Abstract. Characterising the temporal uncertainty in palaeoclimate records is crucial for analysing past climate change, for correlating climate events between records, for assessing climate periodicities, identifying potential triggers, and to evaluate climate model simulations. The first global compilation of speleothem isotope records by the SISAL (Speleothem Isotope Synthesis and Analysis) Working Group showed that age-model uncertainties are not systematically reported in the published literature and these are only available for a limited number of records (ca. 15 %, n = 107/691). To improve the usefulness of the SISAL database, we have (i) improved the database’s spatio-temporal coverage and (ii) created new chronologies using seven different approaches for age-depth modelling. We have applied these alternative chronologies to the records from the first version of the SISAL database (SISALv1) and to new records compiled since the release of SISALv1. This paper documents the necessary changes in the structure of the SISAL database to accommodate the inclusion of the new age-models and their uncertainties as well as the expansion of the database to include new records and the quality-control measures applied. This paper also documents the age-depth model approaches used to calculate the new chronologies. The updated version of the SISAL database (SISALv2) contains isotopic data from 691 speleothem records from 294 cave sites and new age-depth models, including age-depth temporal uncertainties for 512 speleothems. SISALv2 is available at https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.242 (Comas-Bru et al., 2020).

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This paper presents an updated version of the SISAL (Speleothem Isotope Synthesis and Analysis) database. This new version contains isotopic data from 691 speleothem records from 294 cave sites and new age-depth models, including their uncertainties, for 512 speleothems.
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