Palaeo-sea-level and palaeo-ice-sheet databases: problems, strategies, and perspectives
Sea-level and ice-sheet databases have driven numerous advances in understanding the Earth system. We describe the challenges and offer best strategies that can be adopted to build self-consistent and standardised databases of geological and geochemical information used to archive palaeo-sea-levels...
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ftnanyangtu:oai:dr.ntu.edu.sg:10220/46918 2023-05-15T16:40:32+02:00 Palaeo-sea-level and palaeo-ice-sheet databases: problems, strategies, and perspectives Düsterhus, André Rovere, Alessio Carlson, Anders E. Horton, Benjamin Peter Klemann, Volker Tarasov, Lev Barlow, Natasha L. M. Bradwell, Tom Clark, Jorie Dutton, Andrea Gehrels, W. Roland Hibbert, Fiona D. Hijma, Marc P. Khan, Nicole Kopp, Robert E. Sivan, Dorit Törnqvist, Torbjörn E. Earth Observatory of Singapore Asian School of the Environment 2016 11 p. http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46918 https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-911-2016 en eng Climate of the Past Düsterhus, A., Rovere, A., Carlson, A. E., Horton, B. P., Klemann, V., Tarasov, L., Barlow, N. L. M., et al. (2016). Palaeo-sea-level and palaeo-ice-sheet databases: problems, strategies, and perspectives. Climate of the Past, 12(4), 911-921. doi:10.5194/cp-12-911-2016 1814-9324 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46918 http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-911-2016 © 2016 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. CC-BY-NC-ND Accessibility Sea Level DRNTU::Science::Geology Journal Article 2016 ftnanyangtu https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-911-2016 2019-05-24T19:47:01Z Sea-level and ice-sheet databases have driven numerous advances in understanding the Earth system. We describe the challenges and offer best strategies that can be adopted to build self-consistent and standardised databases of geological and geochemical information used to archive palaeo-sea-levels and palaeo-ice-sheets. There are three phases in the development of a database:measurement, interpretation, and database creation.Measurement should include the objective description of the position and age of a sample, description of associated geological features, and quantification of uncertainties. Interpretation of the sample may have a subjective component, but it should always include uncertainties and alternative or contrasting interpretations, with any exclusion of existing interpretations requiring a full justification. During the creation of a database, an approach based on accessibility, transparency, trust, availability, continuity, completeness, and communication of content (ATTAC3) must be adopted. It is essential to consider the community that creates and benefits from a database. We conclude that funding agencies should not only consider the creation of original data in specific research-question-oriented projects, but also include the possibility of using part of the funding for IT-related and database creation tasks, which are essential to guarantee accessibility and maintenance of the collected data. Published version Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice Sheet DR-NTU (Digital Repository at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Climate of the Past 12 4 911 921 |
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Sea-level and ice-sheet databases have driven numerous advances in understanding the Earth system. We describe the challenges and offer best strategies that can be adopted to build self-consistent and standardised databases of geological and geochemical information used to archive palaeo-sea-levels and palaeo-ice-sheets. There are three phases in the development of a database:measurement, interpretation, and database creation.Measurement should include the objective description of the position and age of a sample, description of associated geological features, and quantification of uncertainties. Interpretation of the sample may have a subjective component, but it should always include uncertainties and alternative or contrasting interpretations, with any exclusion of existing interpretations requiring a full justification. During the creation of a database, an approach based on accessibility, transparency, trust, availability, continuity, completeness, and communication of content (ATTAC3) must be adopted. It is essential to consider the community that creates and benefits from a database. We conclude that funding agencies should not only consider the creation of original data in specific research-question-oriented projects, but also include the possibility of using part of the funding for IT-related and database creation tasks, which are essential to guarantee accessibility and maintenance of the collected data. Published version |
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Düsterhus, André Rovere, Alessio Carlson, Anders E. Horton, Benjamin Peter Klemann, Volker Tarasov, Lev Barlow, Natasha L. M. Bradwell, Tom Clark, Jorie Dutton, Andrea Gehrels, W. Roland Hibbert, Fiona D. Hijma, Marc P. Khan, Nicole Kopp, Robert E. Sivan, Dorit Törnqvist, Torbjörn E. |
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