NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - Dante Cave, Namibia 550 Year Stalagmite Stable Isotope Data

Description

This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Cave. The data include parameters of speleothems with a geographic location of Namibia, Southern Africa. The time period coverage is from 487 to 0 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 NCEI landing page with general information and links to access the data. https://doi.org/10.25921/1fqk-z842
0 Study page with data access information. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/study/20433
0 General information for this data type. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/paleoclimatology/speleothem
47 Speleothem https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/speleothem/africa/dante2016.txt
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords
0 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/paleoclimatology/paleoenvironmental-standard-terms-thesaurus
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords
0 Ny Riavo G. Voarintsoa, George A. Brook, Fuyuan Liang, Eugene Marais, Ben Hardt, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, and L. Bruce Railsback, 2016: Stalagmite multi-proxy evidence of wet and dry intervals in northeastern Namibia: Linkage to latitudinal shifts of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone and changing solar activity from AD 1400 to 1950. The Holocene, , , 10.1177/0959683616660170 https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683616660170

Tags

  • speleothems
  • nesdis
  • dante cave
  • what: sample identification
  • what: depth
  • cave deposits
  • what: delta 18o
  • oxygen isotopes
  • southern africa
  • continent
  • land records
  • noaa
  • what: delta 13c
  • paleoclimate
  • material: null
  • namibia
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • material: calcium carbonate
  • climate indicators
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei
  • longitude 17.883333
  • paleoclimate indicators
  • africa
  • what: age
  • what: notes
  • intertropical convergence zone (itcz)
  • latitude -19.4
  • national centers for environmental information
  • carbon isotopes

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