we show that with the present coral record and relatively short calibration data set, we are unable to derive a robust, statistically significant separation of the salinity and temperature signals within the coral d18O.

There are several factors that may prevent the quantification of these relationships, the most likely being the lack of large changes in SSS documented in the instrumental data. Over the length of the Hydrostation S record, salinity (mean annual and winter) has a range of only 0.3 psu, too small to establish a significant relationship for these proxies, given representation error (noise) in the coral and instrumental records.

Goodkin, Nathalie F. | Goodkin, Nathalie F. | Ocean2k

Bermuda coral Sr/Ca and d18O Data 1781-1998

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