d18O (CO96SWBB01A): interpretation4_scope: '' has been replaced by 'isotope'

Column 'addRb2mM9YgOrjLQsSrR', with variable name 'yearEnsemble', was added to the dataset
Column 'addRtXFUxLEIEo38jTiu', with variable name 'yearEnsemble', was added to the dataset

Swart, P. K., Dodge, R. E. and Hudson, H. J.: A 240-Year Stable Oxygen and Carbon Isotopic Record in a Coral from South Florida: Implications for the Prediction of Precipitation in Southern Florida, PALAIOS, 11(4), 362, doi:10.2307/3515246, 1996.

Tierney, Jessica E.,Abram, Nerilie J.,Anchukaitis, Kevin J.,Evans, Michael N.,Giry, Cyril,Kilbourne, K. Halimeda,Saenger, Casey P.,Wu, Henry C.,Zinke, Jens

Alinas Reef, Biscayne National Park, Florida

This coral species is Solenastrea bournoni, one not used in coral climate reconstructions, and it is located in a complex system of Florida Bay where waters from the Everglades enter the ocean and ther eare high rates of evaporation. The d18O system is not additive but subtractive for SSS and SST. Swart 1999 revisited this coral colony and they collect a new core from the same colony. Hudson 1989 gives a map with the coral location, which is 24degrees 55 minutes, and ~80 degrees and between 40 and 50 minutes, about 44 minutes nu my eye. Swart 1999 NOAA has different corrdinates for this coral 25 0N, 80 36W, Looking at Google earth and Hudsons map, the Swart 1999 corrdinates incorrect, they should be 24 degrees 55 minutes N, and ~80 degrees, 43.5 minutes W

MAT 251 mass spectometer, reactions at 90 degrees C. All data have been corrected for the usual isobaric interferences.

In South Florida, the dense band forms in the late summer, but it is generally thought that there is as much as a i¿½ two month variation in timing. By counting the number of bands in a coral, the age can be assessed. Errors in age interpretation arise when dense bands are indistinct or when so-called "stress bands", resulting from events such as temperature extremes, occur. Generally speaking, a year in which a stress band forms may actually contain two dense bands or a thicker dense band which is a combination of the stress and normal dense band. Although it is possible to misinterpret a stress band as an annual band, the annual bands can be recognized by their regular spacing. Therefore, density changes can still provide a clear annual chronology.