SuessR.reference.data: Reference dataset for the SuessR Package

In SuessR: Suess and Laws Corrections for Marine Stable Carbon Isotope Data

Reference dataset for the SuessR Package

Description

A dataset containing the information used by SuessR to calculate regional Suess and Laws corrections for δ¹³C from marine organisms.

Usage

SuessR.reference.data

Format

A data frame with 696 rows and 8 variables:

year

calendar year, 1850-2024

region

geographic region, 'Aleutian Islands', 'Bering Sea', 'Gulf of Alaska', or 'Subpolar North Atlantic'

r

average cell radius of phytoplankton community, in microns

sst

yearly average sea surface temperature, in degrees C

sss

yearly average sea surface salinity, in practical salinity units

CO2atm

yearly average global atmospheric CO2 concentrations, in parts per million

up.con

regional uptake constant for Suess correction, unitless

Cp

Proportional change constant of oceanic/atmospheric CO₂ (regional), a proportion

Source

https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.noaa.ersst.v5.html

https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/soda-pop-2-2-4-monthly-means-1871-2010-at-depths

https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/cw/satellite-data-products/sea-surface-salinity/miras-smos.html

https://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/data/atmospheric_co2/icecore_merged_products.html

References

Clark, C.T., M.R. Cape, M.D. Shapley, F.J. Mueter, B.P. Finney, and N. Misarti. (2021) SuessR: Regional Suess and Laws corrections for δ¹³C from marine organisms. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(8), 1508-1520.

Huang, B., Thorne, P. W., Banzon, V. F., Boyer, T., Chepurin, G., Lawrimore, J. H., … Zhang, H.-M. (2017). NOAA extended reconstructed sea surface temperature (ERSST), version 5. doi:10.7289/V5T72FNM.

Giese, B. S., & Ray, S. (2011). El Niño variability in simple ocean data assimilation (SODA), 1871-2008. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 116(2), 1–17. doi:10.1029/2010JC006695.

Keeling, C. D., Piper, S. C., Bacastow, R. B., Wahlen, M., Whorf, T. P., Heimann, M., & Meijer, H. A. (2005). Atmospheric CO2 and 13CO2 exchange with the terrestrial biosphere and oceans from 1978 to 2000: Observations and carbon cycle implications. In A history of atmospheric CO2 and its effects on plants, animals, and ecosystems (pp. 83–113). Springer.

MacFarling Meure, C., Etheridge, D., Trudinger, C., Steele, P., Langenfelds, R., Van Ommen, T., … Elkins, J. (2006). Law Dome CO2, CH4 and N2O ice core records extended to 2000 years BP. Geophysical Research Letters, 33(14), 2000–2003. doi:10.1029/2006GL026152.

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