Integrating timescales with time-transfer functions:a practical approach for an INTIMATE database
The purpose of the INTIMATE project is to integrate palaeo-climate information from terrestrial, ice and marine records so that the timing of environmental response to climate forcing can be compared in both space and time. One of the key difficulties in doing this is the range of different methods...
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ftunivportsmpubl:oai:researchportal.port.ac.uk:publications/710426ac-db69-4345-b6b5-1a21bc4e02e8 2023-05-15T16:39:26+02:00 Integrating timescales with time-transfer functions:a practical approach for an INTIMATE database Bronk Ramsey, Christopher Albert, Paul Blockley, Simon Hardiman, Mark Lane, Christine Macleod, Alison Matthews, Ian P. Muscheler, Raimund Palmer, Adrian Staff, Richard A. 2014-12-15 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.05.028 https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/integrating-timescales-with-timetransfer-functions(710426ac-db69-4345-b6b5-1a21bc4e02e8).html https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/ws/files/1643491/IntimateDB_revised.pdf eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Bronk Ramsey , C , Albert , P , Blockley , S , Hardiman , M , Lane , C , Macleod , A , Matthews , I P , Muscheler , R , Palmer , A & Staff , R A 2014 , ' Integrating timescales with time-transfer functions : a practical approach for an INTIMATE database ' Quaternary Science Reviews , vol 106 , pp. 67-80 . DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.05.028 Dating Statistics Radiocarbon Calibration Sediment Lateglacial Quaternary environments Ice cores Tephra /dk/atira/pure/core/subjects/geography Geography article 2014 ftunivportsmpubl https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.05.028 2017-09-28T19:33:26Z The purpose of the INTIMATE project is to integrate palaeo-climate information from terrestrial, ice and marine records so that the timing of environmental response to climate forcing can be compared in both space and time. One of the key difficulties in doing this is the range of different methods of dating that can be used across different disciplines. For this reason, one of the main outputs of INTIMATE has been to use an event-stratigraphic approach which enables researchers to co-register synchronous events (such as the deposition of tephra from major volcanic eruptions) in different archives (Blockley et al., 2012). However, this only partly solves the problem, because it gives information only at particular short intervals where such information is present. Between these points the ability to compare different records is necessarily less precise chronologically. What is needed therefore is a way to quantify the uncertainties in the correlations between different records, even if they are dated by different methods, and make maximum use of the information available that links different records. This paper outlines the design of a database that is intended to provide integration of timescales and associated environmental proxy information. The database allows for the fact that all timescales have their own limitations, which should be quantified in terms of the uncertainties quoted. It also makes use of the fact that each timescale has strengths in terms of describing the data directly associated with it. For this reason the approach taken allows users to look at data on any timescale that can in some way be related to the data of interest, rather than specifying a specific timescale or timescales which should always be used. The information going into the database is primarily: proxy information (principally from sediments and ice cores) against depth, age depth models against reference chronologies (typically IntCal or ice core), and time-transfer functions that relate different timescales to each other, through the use of event stratigraphies or global phenomena such as cosmogenic isotope production rate variations. Article in Journal/Newspaper ice core University of Portsmouth: Portsmouth Research Portal Quaternary Science Reviews 106 67 80 |
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The purpose of the INTIMATE project is to integrate palaeo-climate information from terrestrial, ice and marine records so that the timing of environmental response to climate forcing can be compared in both space and time. One of the key difficulties in doing this is the range of different methods of dating that can be used across different disciplines. For this reason, one of the main outputs of INTIMATE has been to use an event-stratigraphic approach which enables researchers to co-register synchronous events (such as the deposition of tephra from major volcanic eruptions) in different archives (Blockley et al., 2012). However, this only partly solves the problem, because it gives information only at particular short intervals where such information is present. Between these points the ability to compare different records is necessarily less precise chronologically. What is needed therefore is a way to quantify the uncertainties in the correlations between different records, even if they are dated by different methods, and make maximum use of the information available that links different records. This paper outlines the design of a database that is intended to provide integration of timescales and associated environmental proxy information. The database allows for the fact that all timescales have their own limitations, which should be quantified in terms of the uncertainties quoted. It also makes use of the fact that each timescale has strengths in terms of describing the data directly associated with it. For this reason the approach taken allows users to look at data on any timescale that can in some way be related to the data of interest, rather than specifying a specific timescale or timescales which should always be used. The information going into the database is primarily: proxy information (principally from sediments and ice cores) against depth, age depth models against reference chronologies (typically IntCal or ice core), and time-transfer functions that relate different timescales to each other, through the use of event stratigraphies or global phenomena such as cosmogenic isotope production rate variations. |
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