ISRaD.extra.calc_atm14c: ISRaD.extra.calc_atm14c

In ISRaD: Tools and Data for the International Soil Radiocarbon Database

ISRaD.extra.calc_atm14c

Description

Calculates atmospheric 14c in the year of sampling for each record in an ISRaD object

Usage

ISRaD.extra.calc_atm14c(database, future = TRUE)

Arguments

database	ISRaD object
future	Project atmospheric radiocarbon into the future?

Details

Creates new column for atmospheric 14c (xxx_atm14c). Observation year and profile coordinates must be filled (use ISRaD.extra.fill_dates, and ISRaD.extra.fill_coords functions). The relevant atmospheric 14C data (northern or southern hemisphere) are determined by profile coordinates.

Atmospheric zones are limited to the northern or southern hemisphere, as differences in 14C in the source data (Hua et al., 2021) within either the northern or southern hemisphere are essentially zero after ~1980, and this is the period over which the majority of data in ISRaD were collected.

Future atmospheric 14C predictions for the period 2020 to 2025 are projected using a time series model trained on data covering the period 2000-2019 (cf. Sierra, 2018).

Value

ISRaD_data object with new atmospheric zone and atmospheric 14C columns in relevant tables.

Author(s)

J. Beem-Miller and C. Hicks-Pries

References

Hua, Q., Turnbull, J., Santos, G., Rakowski, A., Ancapichún, S., De Pol-Holz, R., . . . Turney, C. (2022). ATMOSPHERIC RADIOCARBON FOR THE PERIOD 1950–2019. Radiocarbon, 64(4), 723-745. doi:10.1017/RDC.2021.95

Examples

# Load example dataset Gaudinski_2001
database <- ISRaD::Gaudinski_2001
# Fill profile coordinates
database.x <- ISRaD.extra.fill_coords(database)
# Fill dates
database.x <- ISRaD.extra.fill_dates(database.x)
# Fill delta 14C from fraction modern
database.x <- ISRaD.extra.fill_rc(database.x)
# Fill atmospheric 14c
database.x <- ISRaD.extra.calc_atm14c(database.x)

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