there are some indications from the salinity record for New Caledonia [Quinn et al., 1996b] of interannual changes of as much as 0.5 per mil. The potential impact of a 0.5 per mil interannual salinity variation on d18O seawater enceo n interannucaol ral$ ?80r angefsr om 0.14 per mil [Fairbanks et al., 1997] to 0.15 per mil [Craig and Gordon, 1965]. This effect could explain part of the difference in the seasonal and mean annual slope of d180/SST is discussed above.

Calibration between the instrument (local SST and gridded GISST2) and proxy records was evaluated using two regression techniques: standard ordinary least sqaures and reduced major axis.

possible duplicate with Quinn 2002, Stephans 2004 for 1992-1967 only DeLong 2012 has updated the chronology for Quinn 1998, updated d18O and d13C paper is in progress.

The original meta data on NOAA states there are five files, NC.Coral.5_98.xls (Microsoft Excel format), NC.1951-1657.Qtr.txt, NC.1992-1952.Mon.txt,  NC.Published.1992-1657.Qtr.txt, NC.RawData.txt (Tab delimited ASCII files of the individual sheets in NC.Coral.5_98.xls), but these appear to be missing from NOAA web site now. I have a copy archived of these files (kdelong@lsu.edu) as well as the new updated chronology and new d18O data that repalced the suboptimal sections discussed in DeLong 2013.

d18O (CO98QUNC01A): interpretation4_scope: '' has been replaced by 'isotope'

Column 'addRe5XV3Tn0mFrgK07o', with variable name 'yearEnsemble', was added to the dataset
Column 'addRJ2eF6IY2MLBVtgLP', with variable name 'yearEnsemble', was added to the dataset

Quinn, T. M., Crowley, T. J., Taylor, F. W., Henin, C., Joannot, P. and Join, Y.: A multicentury stable isotope record from a New Caledonia coral: Interannual and decadal sea surface temperature variability in the southwest Pacific since 1657 A.D, Paleoceanography, 13(4), 412–426, doi:10.1029/98pa00401, 1998.

Quinn, T. M., Taylor, F. W., Crowley, T. J. and Link, S. M.: Evaluation of sampling resolution in coral stable isotope records: A case study using records from New Caledonia and Tarawa, Paleoceanography, 11(5), 529–542, doi:10.1029/96pa01859, 1996.