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Appears in Collections: | Biological and Environmental Sciences Journal Articles |
Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
Title: | Palaeo-sea-level and palaeo-ice-sheet databases: problems, strategies, and perspectives |
Authors: | 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 |
Contact Email: | tom.bradwell@stir.ac.uk |
Issue Date: | 11-Apr-2016 |
Citation: | 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. |
Abstract: | 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. |
DOI Link: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-911-2016 |
Rights: | © Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. |
Notes: | Additional co-authors: Dorit Sivan and Torbjörn E. Törnqvist |
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