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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ftunivstirling:oai:dspace.stir.ac.uk:1893/23883 2023-05-15T16:40:33+02:00 Palaeo-sea-level and palaeo-ice-sheet databases: problems, strategies, and perspectives Dusterhus, Andre Rovere, Alessio Carlson, Anders Horton, Benjamin Klemann, Volker Tarasov, Lev Barlow, Natasha Bradwell, Tom Clark, Jorie Dutton, Andrea Gehrels, W Roland Hibbert, Fiona D Hijma, Marc P Khan, Nicole Kopp, Robert E National Oceanography Centre University of Bremen Oregon State University Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Memorial University of Newfoundland Durham University Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Florida University of York University of Southampton Deltares orcid:0000-0003-0947-3309 2016-04-11 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1893/23883 https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-911-2016 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/23883/1/DUSTERHUS_PALSEA2_CoP2016.pdf en eng Copernicus Publications for European Geosciences Union Dusterhus A, Rovere A, Carlson A, Horton B, Klemann V, Tarasov L, Barlow N, Bradwell T, Clark J, Dutton A, Gehrels WR, Hibbert FD, Hijma MP, Khan N & Kopp RE (2016) Palaeo-sea-level and palaeo-ice-sheet databases: problems, strategies, and perspectives. Climate of the Past, 12 (4), pp. 911-921. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-911-2016 http://hdl.handle.net/1893/23883 doi:10.5194/cp-12-911-2016 WOS:000376073100007 2-s2.0-84964647451 555797 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/23883/1/DUSTERHUS_PALSEA2_CoP2016.pdf © Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Journal Article VoR - Version of Record 2016 ftunivstirling https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-911-2016 2022-06-13T18:43:37Z 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: (i)measurement, (ii)interpretation, and (iii)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. Additional co-authors: Dorit Sivan and Torbjörn E. Törnqvist Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice Sheet University of Stirling: Stirling Digital Research Repository 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: (i)measurement, (ii)interpretation, and (iii)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. Additional co-authors: Dorit Sivan and Torbjörn E. Törnqvist |
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Dusterhus, Andre Rovere, Alessio Carlson, Anders Horton, Benjamin Klemann, Volker Tarasov, Lev Barlow, Natasha Bradwell, Tom Clark, Jorie Dutton, Andrea Gehrels, W Roland Hibbert, Fiona D Hijma, Marc P Khan, Nicole Kopp, Robert E |
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Dusterhus, Andre Rovere, Alessio Carlson, Anders Horton, Benjamin Klemann, Volker Tarasov, Lev Barlow, Natasha Bradwell, Tom Clark, Jorie Dutton, Andrea Gehrels, W Roland Hibbert, Fiona D Hijma, Marc P Khan, Nicole Kopp, Robert E Palaeo-sea-level and palaeo-ice-sheet databases: problems, strategies, and perspectives |
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Palaeo-sea-level and palaeo-ice-sheet databases: problems, strategies, and perspectives |
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