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These links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of this Department of Commerce/NOAA Web site."},"dataType":"SPELEOTHEMS","investigators":"Markowska, M.; Cuthbert, M.O.; Baker, A.; Treble, P.C.; Andersen, M.S.; Adler, L.; Griffiths, A.D.; Frisia, S.","investigatorDetails":[{"firstName":"Monika","lastName":"Markowska","initials":"M.","orcId":"0000-0003-1455-1121"},{"firstName":"Mark","lastName":"Cuthbert","initials":"M.O.","orcId":"0000-0001-6721-022X"},{"firstName":"Andy","lastName":"Baker","initials":"A.","orcId":"0000-0002-1552-6166"},{"firstName":"Pauline","lastName":"Treble","initials":"P.C.","orcId":"0000-0002-1969-8555"},{"firstName":"Martin","lastName":"Andersen","initials":"M.S.","orcId":"0000-0001-7632-5491"},{"firstName":"Lewis","lastName":"Adler","initials":"L.","orcId":"0000-0001-8427-8947"},{"firstName":"Alan","lastName":"Griffiths","initials":"A.D.","orcId":"0000-0003-1135-1810"},{"firstName":"Silvia","lastName":"Frisia","initials":"S.","orcId":"0000-0001-6568-2696"}],"version":"1.0","funding":[],"studyNotes":"Data contributed as part of SISAL v3 Global Speleothem Isotope and Trace Element Database (https://doi.org/10.25921/jajq-qg60). Notes from the SISAL database: Entities WC and WB (SISAL entity_id = 744, 743): Bomb-pulse chronology.","onlineResourceLink":"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/study/40742","difMetadataLink":"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/metadata/published/paleo/dif/xml/noaa-cave-40742.xml","isoMetadataLink":"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/metadata/published/paleo/iso/xml/noaa-cave-40742.xml","originalSource":null,"dataTypeInformation":"https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/paleoclimatology/speleothem","studyCode":null,"scienceKeywords":null,"reconstruction":"N","contributionDate":"2025-01-28","entryId":"noaa-cave-40742","earliestYearBP":13,"mostRecentYearBP":-60,"earliestYearCE":1937,"mostRecentYearCE":2010,"publication":[{"author":{"name":"Markowska, Monika; Mark O. Cuthbert; Andy Baker; Pauline C. Treble; Martin S. 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The ´18O of two coeval modern speleothems from Cathedral Cave, Wellington, in semi-arid SE Australia are compared to the instrumental record to assess its efficacy as a proxy of past hydrological variability. Stalagmite ´18O was modulated by the frequency of recharge events and epikarst evaporation of storage water. Prolonged intervals between recharge events, such as droughts, resulted in higher stalagmite ´18O. Conversely, periods with more frequent recharge events and a positive water balance, resulted in lower ´18O. Disequilibrium cave processes are likely to be enhanced during dry conditions, although it is argued that these will modulate ´18Ospel in the same direction as epikarst evaporation, effectively amplifying the response of ´18Ospel. Extreme events, such as floods and droughts, were also captured in the stalagmite records, although potentially with a lag of several years. We verify that modern speleothems from semi-arid regions can be used to reconstruct hydroclimate due to variations in ´18Ospel modulated by karst processes. Such records are archives of past changes in recharge rather than precipitation amount or surface temperature, as is commonly applied to speleothem records from non-water-limited regions.","pubRank":"1"},{"author":{"name":"Kaushal, Nikita, Franziska A. Lechleitner, Micah Wilhelm, Khalil Azennoud, Janica C. Bühler, Kerstin Braun, Yassine Ait Brahim, Andy Baker, Yuval Burstyn, Laia Comas-Bru, Jens Fohlmeister, Yonaton Goldsmith, Sandy P. Harrison, István G. Hatvani, Kira Rehfeld, Magdalena Ritzau, Vanessa Skiba, Heather M. Stoll, József G. Szucs, Péter Tanos, Pauline C. Treble, Vitor Azevedo, Jonathan L. 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Treble, Vitor Azevedo, Jonathan L. Baker, Andrea Borsato, Sakonvan Chawchai, Andrea Columbu, Laura Endres, Jun Hu, Zoltán Kern, Alena Kimbrough, Koray Koç, Monika Markowska, Belen Martrat, Syed Masood Ahmad, Carole Nehme, Valdir Felipe Novello, Carlos Pérez-Mejías, Jiaoyang Ruan, Natasha Sekhon, Nitesh Sinha, Carol V. Tadros, Benjamin H. Tiger, Sophie Warken, Annabel Wolf, Haiwei Zhang, and SISAL Working Group members. 2024. SISALv3: a global speleothem stable isotope and trace element database. 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