Oman Upwelling Data Set: readme file
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               World Data Center A- Paleoclimatology
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE CONTRIBUTORS WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

CONTRIBUTOR: David Anderson, WDCA for Paleo
IGBP PAGES/WDCA Data Contribution Series #: 95-033
NAME OF DATA SET: Oman Upwelling Data Set 
LAST UPDATE: 12/95   
GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Arabian Sea
PERIOD OF RECORD: 0-300KYrBP
LIST OF FILES:  723ASUSC.DAT, 723BDEL.XLS, 723BFLUX.XLS,
723BGRAM.XLS, 723BSUSC.DAT, 723B_PCT.TXT, 723B_PCT.XLS,
TABLE2.XLS 

DESCRIPTION:
Planktonic foraminifer assemblages and fluxes from sediments recovered by 
ODP leg 117 on the Oman margin are used to reconstruct northwest Arabian Sea 
upwelling and the southwest monsoon.  Variations in G. Bulloides and in total 
foraminifer counts show cycles of variability at 23kyr and 100kyr.   

ORIGINAL REFERENCE:
Anderson, D.W. W.L. Prell, 1993,  A 300 KYR Record of Upwelling 
off Oman during the late Quaternary: Evidence of the Asian 
Southwest Monsoon, Paleoceanography 8, no. 2, pp 193-208.

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION:
Anderson, D., 1995, Oman Upwelling Data Set.  IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for
Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series # 95-033.  NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program,
Boulder CO, USA.