# SISALv3: Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis database version 3.0 #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # World Data Service for Paleoclimatology, Boulder # and # NOAA Paleoclimatology Program #----------------------------------------------------------------------- # 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 '#' followed by a space # Data lines have no '#' # # NOAA_Landing_Page: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/study/39799 # 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-cave-39799.json # Study_Level_JSON_Description: JSON metadata of this data file's parent study, which includes all study metadata. # # Data_Type: Speleothems # # Dataset_DOI: # # Science_Keywords: #--------------------------------------- # Resource_Links # # Data_Download_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/speleothem/SISAL-v3/sisal-v3-noaa-description.txt # Data_Download_Description: NOAA Template File; SISAL v3 Description # # Related_Online_Resource: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/speleothem/SISAL-v3/ # Related_Online_Description: Data Folder; SISAL v3 Database Files and Descriptions #--------------------------------------- # Contribution_Date # Date: 2024-09-11 #--------------------------------------- # File_Last_Modified_Date # Date: 2024-09-11 #--------------------------------------- # Title # Study_Name: SISALv3: Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis database version 3.0 #--------------------------------------- # Investigators # Investigators: Kaushal, Nikita; Lechleitner, Franziska; Wilhelm, Micah; SISAL working group members #--------------------------------------- # Description_Notes_and_Keywords # Description: Descriptions of files in study: # # README_SISALv3.pdf: full project description as well as SISAL v3 database relationship diagram. # # sisalv3_codes.zip: examples of codes and queries that can be used with the MySQL database, but also with the CSV files. # # sisalv3_data_entry_workbook_standardised_sheets.zip: provides the standardized Excel/GoogleSheet conversion sheets for: # - Atomic to activity ratios calculator for uranium-thorium data # - Grams to moles conversion file for trace element data. # - Latitude-longitude decimalization sheet. # - SISAL entity scan wish list with ‘best practices’ information to be submitted with a speleothem scan for the database and any speleothem-publications.. # - SISAL trace elements metadata wish list with ‘best practices’ information to be submitted with speleothem trace element measurements for the database and any speleothem-publications. # - SISAL_workbook_v14 which was used for primary data entry. # # sisalv3_database_mysql_csv.zip: the data is in a relational database (MySQL), which consists of 21 linked tables (Site, entity, sample, dating, dating lamina, gap, hiatus, original chronology, d13C, d18O, Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca, Ba/Ca, U/Ca, P/Ca, Sr isotopes, entity link reference, references, composite link entity and sisal_chronology). Also has folder of 21 csv file versions of these tables. # The relationships between these tables can be found in README_SISALv3.pdf. # # sisalv3_standardised_trace_elements_datafiles.zip: provides data that could not be entered directly into the database due to sampling resolution or units of measurement. # # sisalv3_cave_map_entity_images.zip: # - Speleothem section images as provided by data contributors or permitted by journals. The database ‘entity’ table – ‘entity_scan’ field indicates if these images are available in the repository. The images in the repository are labelled with ‘site_id entity_id persist_id site_name entity_scan’. # - Cave map images where provided by data contributors or permitted by journals. The database ‘entity’ table – ‘cave_map’ field indicates if these images are available in the repository. The images in the repository are labelled with ‘site_id cave_name cave_map # - The ‘sisalv3_cave_site_entity_images_citation_copyright_license_information.xlsx file provides information linked to the entity_scan and cave_map image files. Users must adhere to the ‘reuse permission information’ given in this document when using the images for their research work. The file contains the following information: Image publication DOI; Parent journal; Copyright statement; License terms; Reuse permission information; Reference # # Previous version, SISAL v2: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/study/24070 # Provided Keywords: Cave Deposits, Speleothems, Carbon isotopes, oxygen isotopes, Sr isotopes, trace elements #--------------------------------------- # Publication # Authors: 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. 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 # Published_Date_or_Year: 2024 # Published_Title: SISALv3: a global speleothem stable isotope and trace element database # Journal_Name: Earth System Science Data # Volume: 16 # Edition: # Issue: # Pages: 1933-1963 # Report_Number: # DOI: 10.5194/essd-16-1933-2024 # Online_Resource: # Full_Citation: # Abstract: Palaeoclimate information on multiple climate variables at different spatiotemporal scales is becoming increasingly important to understand environmental and societal responses to climate change. A lack of high-quality reconstructions of past hydroclimate has recently been identified as a critical research gap. Speleothems, with their precise chronologies, widespread distribution, and ability to record changes in local to regional hydroclimate variability, are an ideal source of such information. Here, we present a new version of the Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis database (SISALv3), which has been expanded to include trace element ratios and Sr isotopes as additional, hydroclimate-sensitive geochemical proxies. The oxygen and carbon isotope data included in previous versions of the database have been substantially expanded. SISALv3 contains speleothem data from 365 sites from across the globe, including 95 , 85 , 52 , 25 , 29 , and 14 Sr-isotope records. The database also has increased spatiotemporal coverage for stable oxygen (892) and carbon (620) isotope records compared with SISALv2 (which consists of 673 and 430 stable oxygen and carbon records, respectively). Additional meta information has been added to improve the machine-readability and filtering of data. Standardized chronologies are included for all new entities along with the originally published chronologies. Thus, the SISALv3 database constitutes a unique resource of speleothem palaeoclimate information that allows regional to global palaeoclimate analyses based on multiple geochemical proxies, permitting more robust interpretations of past hydroclimate and comparisons with isotope-enabled climate models and other Earth system and hydrological models. The database can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.5287/ora-2nanwp4rk (Kaushal et al., 2024). #--------------------------------------- # Publication # Authors: Kaushal, Nikita, Franziska Lechleitner, Micah Wilhelm and SISAL working group members # Published_Date_or_Year: 2024 # Published_Title: SISALv3: Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis database version 3.0 # Journal_Name: University of Oxford # Volume: # Edition: # Issue: # Pages: # Report_Number: # DOI: 10.5287/ora-2nanwp4rk # Online_Resource: # Full_Citation: # Abstract: Stable isotope and trace elements records from speleothems provide information on past climate changes, most particularly information that can be used to reconstruct past changes in precipitation and atmospheric circulation. SISAL (Speleothem Isotope Synthesis and Analysis) is an international working group of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) project. The working group aims to provide a comprehensive compilation of speleothem isotope and trace elements records for climate reconstruction and model evaluation. SISALv3 database contains 892 oxygen isotope, 620 carbon isotope, 95 Mg/Ca, 85 Sr/Ca, 52 Ba/Ca, 25 U/Ca, 29 P/Ca and 14 Sr isotope records from 838 speleothems from 365 cave sites worldwide, and metadata describing the cave settings and age models of these records. This version contains standardized age-depth models. There are also 51 datafiles containing trace element data and 246 image files of cave maps and entity scans. In order to assure traceability, any presentation, report, or publication that uses the SISALv3 database should cite Atsawawaranunt et al. (2018; https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1687-2018), Comas-Bru et al. (2019; https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1557-2019), Comas-Bru et al. (2020; https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2020-39) and Kaushal et al. (2023; https://doi.org/10.5287/ora-mzy8pozvk). If using individual sites, the literature citations for published work provided in the database should also be cited. Contact information of data contributors of unpublished data is also provided and they should be contacted when unpublished records are used on an individual basis. If cave site or entity (speleothem) images stored into linked repository folder are to be used, corresponding citation, copyright and license information must be adhered to. This information is provided in an excel file in the repository. #--------------------------------------- # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: PAGES (Past Global Changes) # Grant: DSS-108 #--------------------------------------- # Funding_Agency # Funding_Agency_Name: Minerva Stiftung # Grant: 3063000253 #--------------------------------------- # Site_Information # Site_Name: Global # Location: Global # Northernmost_Latitude: 90 # Southernmost_Latitude: -90 # Easternmost_Longitude: 180 # Westernmost_Longitude: -180 # Elevation_m: #--------------------------------------- # Data_Collection # Collection_Name: SISALv3 Kaushal2024 # First_Year: 1989850 # Last_Year: -67 # Time_Unit: calendar year before present # Core_Length_m: # Parameter_Keywords: carbon isotopes, oxygen isotopes, trace metals, other # Notes: #--------------------------------------- # 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) # #------------------------ # Data: # Data lines follow (have no #) # Data line format - tab-delimited text, variable short name as header # Missing_Values: # # All data can be found in: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/speleothem/SISAL-v3/