# West Australia Coral Sr/Ca Data and SST Reconstructions for the last 200 Years
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#               World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder
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# NOTE: Please cite original publication, online resource and date accessed when using this data.
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# Online_Resource: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/study/19239
# Online_Resource: http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/indian_ocean/zinke2015/zinke2015-tnt.txt
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# Archive: Corals and Sclerosponges
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# Contribution_Date
#    Date: 2015-09-24
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# Title
#    Study_Name: West Australia Coral Sr/Ca Data and SST Reconstructions for the last 200 Years
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# Investigators
#      Investigators: Zinke, Jens
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# Description and Notes
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# Publication
# Authors: Zinke, J., Hoell, A., Lough, J., Feng, M., Kuret, A., Clarke, H., Ricca, V., McCulloch, M.T. 
# Published_Date_or_Year: 2015
# Published_Title: Coral record of southeastern Indian Ocean marine heatwaves with intensified Western Pacific temperature gradient. 
# Journal_Name: Nature Communications
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# DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9562
# Abstract: Increasing intensity of marine heat waves has caused widespread mass coral bleaching events, threatening the integrity and functional diversity of coral reefs.  Here, we demonstrate the role of inter-ocean coupling in amplifying thermal stress on reefs in the poorly studied southeast Indian Ocean (SEIO), through a robust 215 year (1795-2010) geochemical coral proxy sea surface temperature (SST) record. We show that marine heat waves affecting the SEIO are linked to the behaviour of the Western Pacific Warm Pool on decadal to centennial timescales, and are most pronounced when an anomalously strong zonal SST gradient between the western and central Pacific co-occurs with strong La Niņa's. This SST gradient forces large-scale changes in heat flux that exacerbate SEIO heatwaves. Better understanding of the zonal SST gradient in the western Pacific is expected to improve projections of the frequency of extreme SEIO heatwaves and their ecological impacts on the important coral reef ecosystems off Western Australia.  
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# Funding_Agency
#    Funding_Agency_Name: The University of Western Australia, UWA AGFIOR lab
#    Grant: UWA, AIMS, CSIRO IMROC fellowship
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# Site Information
# Site_Name: Tantabiddi, Ningaloo Reef
# Location: Ningaloo Reef
# Country: Australia
# Northernmost_Latitude: -21.893
# Southernmost_Latitude: -21.893
# Easternmost_Longitude: 113.963
# Westernmost_Longitude: 113.963
# Elevation: -2.5
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# Data_Collection
#   Collection_Name: Tantabiddi TNT07C Zinke15
#   First_Year: 1952
#   Last_Year: 1999
#   Time_Unit: AD
#   Core_Length: 
#   Notes: annual sampling, Error on Sr/Ca measurements: 0.34% (2 sigma)
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# Species
#   Species_Name: Porites
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# Chronology: 
# mean annual
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# Variables
# Data variables follow that are preceded by "##" in columns one and two.
# Variables list, one per line, shortname-tab-longname components (9 components: what, material, error, units, seasonality, archive, detail, method, C or N for Character or Numeric data)
## age_AD	age,,,years AD,,,,,N
## Sr/Ca-porite	Strontium Calcium ratio,Porites sp.,,mmol/mol,annual,,,ICP-MS,N
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# Data
# Data lines follow (have no #)
# Data line format - tab-delimited text, variable short name as header
# Missing Value: 
age_AD	Sr/Ca-porite	
1952	9.045547	
1953	9.140711	
1954	9.083002	
1955	9.079869	
1956	9.094761	
1957	9.101297	
1958	9.094442	
1959	9.063726	
1960	9.066481	
1961	9.080281	
1962	9.027417	
1963	9.047027	
1964	9.079971	
1965	9.042491	
1966	9.059174	
1967	9.083481	
1968	9.118504	
1969	9.071372	
1970	9.048361	
1971	9.081349	
1972	9.110666	
1973	9.154808	
1974	9.069363	
1975	9.068135	
1976	8.978657	
1977	9.114646	
1978	9.086388	
1979	9.086838	
1980	9.051722	
1981	9.072192	
1982	9.091162	
1983	9.066381	
1984	9.028619	
1985	9.068627	
1986	9.120552	
1987	9.129915	
1988	9.059762	
1989	9.038908	
1990	9.069713	
1991	9.05717	
1992	9.128367	
1993	9.148703	
1994	9.119907	
1995	9.120726	
1996	9.045873	
1997	9.08224	
1998	9.074033	
1999	9.027687