SISAL (Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis Working Group) database

Description:

Stable isotope 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 records for climate reconstruction and model evaluation. Version 2 of the SISAL database contains oxygen and carbon isotope measurements from 691 speleothem records from 294 cave systems worldwide, as well as metadata describing their cave settings and age-depth models. To improve the usefulness of the SISAL database, version 2 has an improved spatio-temporal coverage and contains new chronologies using seven different approaches for age–depth modelling. These alternative chronologies were applied to the records from SISALv1 and to new records compiled since its release. Additionally, some metadata has been amended from previous versions.

In order to assure traceability, any presentation, report, or publication that uses the SISALv2 database should cite Atsawawaranunt et al. (2018) (The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems; https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1687-2018) and Comas-Bru et al., 2020 (SISALv2: a comprehensive speleothem isotope database with multiple age–depth models; https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2579-2020) . If using individual sites or speleothems, 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 Contact information of data contributors of unpublished data is also provided and these should be contacted when unpublished records are used on an individual basis.

Link to the dataset: 

  • Version 2: Comas-Bru, L., Atsawawaranunt, K., Harrison, S. and SISAL working group members (2020): SISAL (Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis Working Group) database version 2.0. University of Reading. Dataset. http://doi.org/10.17864/1947.256

References:

  • Comas-Bru, L., Rehfeld, K., Roesch, C., Amirnezhad-Mozhdehi, S., Harrison, S. P., Atsawawaranunt, K., Ahmad, S. M., Brahim, Y. A., Baker, A., Bosomworth, M., Breitenbach, S. F. M., Burstyn, Y., Columbu, A., Deininger, M., Demény, A., Dixon, B., Fohlmeister, J., Hatvani, I. G., Hu, J., Kaushal, N., Kern, Z., Labuhn, I., Lechleitner, F. A., Lorrey, A., Martrat, B., Novello, V. F., Oster, J., Pérez-Mejías, C., Scholz, D., Scroxton, N., Sinha, N., Ward, B. M., Warken, S., Zhang, H., and SISAL Working Group members, 2020. SISALv2: a comprehensive speleothem isotope database with multiple age–depth models, Earth System Science Data, 12, 2579–2606, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2579-2020.
  • Comas-Bru, L., Harrison, S. P., Werner, M., Rehfeld, K., Scroxton, N., Veiga-Pires, C., and SISAL working group members, 2019.Evaluating model outputs using integrated global speleothem records of climate change since the last glacial, Climate of the Past, 15, 1557–1579, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1557-2019.
  • Atsawawaranunt K, Comas-Bru L, Amirnezhad Mozhdehi S, Deininger M, Harrison SP, Baker A, Boyd M, Kaushal N, Ahmad SM, Ait Brahim Y, Arienzo M, Bajo P, Braun K, Burstyn Y, Chawchai S, Duan W, Hatvani IG, Hu J, Kern Z, Labuhn I, Lachniet M, Lechleiter FA, Lorrey A, Pérez-Mejías C, Pickering R, Scroxton N & SISAL Working Group Members, 2018. The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems. Earth System Science Data, 10, 3, 1687-1713, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1687-2018.

Superseded versions of the dataset:

  • Atsawawaranunt, K., Harrison, S. and Comas-Bru, L. (2018): SISAL (Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis Working Group) database Version 1.0. University of Reading. Dataset. http://dx.doi.org/10.17864/1947.147
  • Atsawawaranunt, K., Harrison, S. and Comas-Bru, L. (2019): SISAL (Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis Working Group) database version 1b. University of Reading. Dataset. http://dx.doi.org/10.17864/1947.189