Description: We present a data set of 738 planktonic foraminiferal species counts from sediment surface samples of the eastern North Atlantic and the South Atlantic between 87°N and 40°S, 35°E and 60°W including published Climate: Long-Range Investigation, Mapping, and Prediction (CLIMAP) data. These species counts are linked to Levitus's [1982] modern water temperature data for the four caloric seasons, four depth ranges (0, 30, 50, and 75 m), and the combined means of those depth ranges. The relation between planktonic foraminiferal assemblages and sea surface temperature (SST) data is estimated using the newly developed SIMMAX technique, which is an acronym for a modern analog technique (MAT) with a similarity index, based on (1) the scalar product of the normalized faunal percentages and (2) a weighting procedure of the modern analog's SSTs according to the inverse geographical distances of the most similar samples. Compared to the classical CLIMAP transfer technique and conventional MAT techniques, SIMMAX provides a more confident reconstruction of paleo-SSTs (correlation coefficient is 0.994 for the caloric winter and 0.993 for caloric summer). The standard deviation of the residuals is 0.90°C for caloric winter and 0.96°C for caloric summer at 0-m water depth. The SST estimates reach optimum stability (standard deviation of the residuals is 0.88°C) at the average 0– to 75-m water depth. Our extensive database provides SST estimates over a range of -1.4 to 27.2°C for caloric winter and 0.4 to 28.6°C for caloric summer, allowing SST estimates which are especially valuable for the high-latitude Atlantic during glacial times.
Global identifier:
Doi(
"10.1594/PANGAEA.51621",
)
Measurements(
Measurements {
domain: Unspecified,
station: None,
measured_variables: [
"Event label",
"Date/Time of event",
"LATITUDE",
"LONGITUDE",
"Elevation of event",
"DEPTH, sediment/rock",
"Globigerinella aequilateralis",
"Globigerina bulloides",
"Globigerinella calida",
"Globigerinoides conglobatus",
"Globorotalia crassaformis",
"Sphaeroidinella dehiscens",
"Globigerina digitata",
"Globoquadrina dutertrei",
"Globigerina falconensis",
"Globigerinita glutinata",
"Globorotalia hirsuta",
"Globorotalia inflata",
"Pulleniatina obliquiloculata",
"Neogloboquadrina pachyderma sinistral",
"Neogloboquadrina pachyderma dextral and dutertrei intergrade",
"Globigerina quinqueloba",
"Globigerinoides ruber pink",
"Globigerinoides ruber white",
"Globoturborotalita rubescens",
"Globigerinoides trilobus trilobus",
"Globigerinoides trilobus sacculifer",
"Globorotalia cultrata",
"Globorotalia scitula",
"Globigerinoides tenellus",
"Globorotalia truncatulinoides sinistral",
"Orbulina universa",
"Foraminifera, planktic",
"Sample code/label",
"Comment",
],
methods: [
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
"Counting >150 µm fraction",
],
},
)
Dataset
Origins: /Wissenschaft/PANGAEA
Tags: Meerestemperatur ? Wassertemperatur ? Geografische Koordinaten ? Daten ? Sediment ? Wasser ? REACH ? Datenbank ? Rückstand ? Atlantischer Ozean ? Barcelona Coast ? Cork Harbour ? Danube Delta ? Danube Delta Coast ? Guadiana Estuary ? Gulf of Riga ? Himmerfjarden ? Limfjorden ? Oder Estuary ? Pertuis Charentais ? Scheldt Delta Estuary ? Taranto Mare Piccolo ? Thau Lagoon ? Thermaikos Gulf ?
Region: Liberia Five-Ridge Tower Kiel Canal Eastern Entrance Atlantic Steinhorster Basin off West Africa off Portugal off Nigeria-Delta off Nigeria off Iceland off Guinea off Gabun Yermak Plateau Walvis Ridge, Southeast Atlantic Ocean Svalbard South Atlantic Ocean Norwegian-Greenland Sea Norwegian Sea Northeast Atlantic North Atlantic Ocean Namibia continental slope Namibia Continental Margin Mid Atlantic Ridge Iceland Sea Hunter Channel Greenland Sea Fram Strait Equatorial Atlantic Eastern Rio Grande Rise East Atlantic Congo Fan Cardno Seamount Cape Blanc/Meteor Bank/Portugal Biscaya Atlantic Ocean Arctic Ocean Amazon Fan
Bounding boxes: -69.5° .. 30.85° x -39.82° .. 85.39°
License: cc-by/3.0
Language: Englisch/English
Issued: 1996-11-05
Modified: 2017-02-08
Time ranges: 1953-07-30 - 1992-07-21
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