# Houtman Abrolhos Island Sr/Ca, Oxygen Isotopes, SST and Sea-Level Reconstruction Data from 1795-2010 #---------------------------------------------------- # World Data Service for Paleoclimatology, Boulder # and # NOAA Paleoclimatology Program # National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) #---------------------------------------------------- # Template Version 4.0 # Encoding: UTF-8 # NOTE: Please cite original publication, NOAA Landing Page URL, dataset and publication DOIs (where available), and date accessed when using downloaded data. If there is no publication information, please cite investigator, study title, NOAA Landing Page URL, and date accessed. # # Description/Documentation lines begin with # # Data lines have no # # # NOAA_Landing_Page: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/study/16316 # Landing_Page_Description: NOAA Landing Page of this file's parent study, which includes all study metadata. # # Study_Level_JSON_Metadata: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/metadata/published/paleo/json/noaa-coral-16316.json # Study_Level_JSON_Description: JSON metadata of this data file's parent study, which includes all study metadata. # # Data_Type: Corals and Sclerosponges # # Dataset_DOI: 10.25921/wnnj-hh12 # # Science_Keywords: Sea Level Reconstruction, Sea Surface Temperature Reconstruction, ENSO #-------------------- # Resource_Links # # Data_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/contributions_by_author/zinke2014/zinke2014-fsl-noaa.txt # Data_Download_Description: NOAA Template File; Fremantle Sea Level Reconstruction # #-------------------- # Contribution_Date # Date: 2014-04-07 #-------------------- # File_Last_Modified_Date # Date: 2025-07-28 #-------------------- # Title # Study_Name: Houtman Abrolhos Island Sr/Ca, Oxygen Isotopes, SST and Sea-Level Reconstruction Data from 1795-2010 #-------------------- # Investigators # Investigators: Zinke, J.(https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0634-8281); Rountrey, A.(https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-9102); Feng, M.; Xie, S.-P.; Dissard, D.(https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8250-2888); Rankenburg, K.(https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3708-9304); Lough, J.M.(https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3789-1009); McCulloch, M.T.(https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1538-1558) #-------------------- # Description_Notes_and_Keywords # Description: The dataset contains mean annual Sr/Ca and oxygen isotope data, SST reconstructions and sea-level reconstructions relative to the 1900-1993 mean. Keywords provided: Southeastern Indian Ocean, Sr/Ca, stable isotopes, SST, sea-level height #-------------------- # Publication # Authors: Zinke, J., A. Rountrey, M. Feng, S.P. Xie, D. Dissard, K. Rankenburg, J. Lough, and M.T. McCulloch # Journal_Name: Nature Communications # Published_Title: Corals record long-term Leeuwin Current variability including Ningaloo Niño/Niña since 1795 # Published_Date_or_Year: 2014 # Volume: 5 # Issue: # Pages: # Report_Number: 3607 # DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4607 # Full_Citation: # Abstract: Variability of the Leeuwin current (LC) off Western Australia is a footprint of interannual and decadal climate variations in the tropical Indo-Pacific. La Niña events often result in a strengthened LC, high coastal sea levels and unusually warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs), termed Ningaloo Niño. The rarity of such extreme events and the response of the southeastern Indian Ocean to regional and remote climate forcing are poorly understood owing to the lack of long-term records. Here we use well-replicated coral SST records from within the path of the LC, together with a reconstruction of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation to hindcast historical SST and LC strength from 1795 to 2010. We show that interannual and decadal variations in SST and LC strength characterized the past 215 years and that the most extreme sea level and SST anomalies occurred post 1980. These recent events were unprecedented in severity and are likely aided by accelerated global ocean warming and sea-level rise. #-------------------- # Authors: Kuhnert, H., J. Pätzold, B. Hatcher, K.-H. Wyrwoll, A. Eisenhauer, L.B. Collins, Z.R. Zhu, and G. Wefer # Journal_Name: Coral Reefs # Published_Title: A 200-year coral stable oxygen isotope record from a high-latitude reef off Western Australia # Published_Date_or_Year: 1999 # Volume: 18 # Issue: # Pages: 1-12 # Report_Number: # DOI: 10.1007/s003380050147 # Full_Citation: # Abstract: A core from a coral colony of Porites lutea was analysed for stable oxygen isotopic composition. A 200-year proxy record of sea surface temperatures from the Houtman Abrolhos Islands off west Australia was obtained from coral δ18O. At 29′S, the Houtman Abrolhos are the southernmost major reef complex of the Indian Ocean. They are located on the path of the Leeuwin Current, a southward flow of warm, tropical water, which is coupled to Indonesian throughflow. Coral δ18O primarily reflects local oceanographic and climatic variability, which is largely determined by spatial variability of the Leeuwin Current. However, coherence between coral δ18O and the current strength itself is relatively weak. Evolutionary spectral and singular spectrum analyses of coral δ18O demonstrate a high variability in spectral composition through time. Oscillations in the 5–7-y, 14–15-y, and quasi-biennial bands reflect teleconnections of local sea surface temperature (SST) to tropical Pacific climate variability. Deviations between local (coral-based) and regional (instrument) SST contain a cyclic component with a period of 15 y. Coral δ18O suggests a rise in SST by 0.6 ′C since AD 1944, consistent with available instrumental SST records. A long-term warming by 1.4 ′C since AD 1795 is inferred from the coral record. #-------------------- # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: Australian Research Council (ARC) # Grant: ARC DP0986505 #-------------------- # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) # Grant: Wealth from Oceans Flagship #-------------------- # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: Australian Climate Change Science Program # Grant: #-------------------- # Site_Information # Site_Name: Fremantle # Location: Indian Ocean # Northernmost_Latitude: -32.05 # Southernmost_Latitude: -32.05 # Easternmost_Longitude: 115.743 # Westernmost_Longitude: 115.743 # Elevation_m: #-------------------- # Data_Collection # Collection_Name: Fremantle SL Z14 # First_Year: 1795 # Last_Year: 2009 # Time_Unit: CE # Core_Length_m: # Parameter_Keywords: physical properties # Notes: See Zinke et al. 2014 paper for sea level reconstruction methodology #-------------------- # Chronology_Information # Chronology: #-------------------- # Variables # PaST_Thesaurus_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/skos/past-thesaurus.rdf # PaST_Thesaurus_Download_Description: Paleoenvironmental Standard Terms (PaST) Thesaurus terms, definitions, and relationships in SKOS format. # # Data variables follow that are preceded by '##' in columns one and two. # Variables list, one per line, shortname-tab-var components: what, material, error, units, seasonality, data type, detail, method, C or N for Character or Numeric data) # ## age_CE age,,,year Common Era,,climate reconstructions;corals and sclerosponges,,,N, ## SL-detr_cm sea level,strontium/calcium;delta 18O,,centimeter,annual,climate reconstructions;corals and sclerosponges,anomalized;detrended,,N,anomalized from 1900-1993 AD; detrended over length of record ## SL-detr_cm_err sea level,strontium/calcium;delta 18O,two standard deviations,centimeter,annual,climate reconstructions;corals and 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