North Atlantic sediment trap data provides shell weight, size, and stable isotope composition for the planktonic foraminifera species Globigerinoides ruber/elongatus. The dataset includes environmental parameters and was collected from the Azores Front region between May 2005 and March 2006. It was authored by Manuel F G Weinkauf and is available under an Open Access license.
Use Cases
- Calibrating foraminifera shell geochemistry as a paleoceanographic proxy based on stable isotope composition.
- Modeling relationships between shell morphology and environmental conditions based on shell weight and size data.
- Reconstructing past oceanographic conditions in the North Atlantic based on sediment trap time-series data.
Strengths
- Includes specific error estimates for stable isotope analyses, defined by mass spectrometer amplitude thresholds.
- Contains both biological (shell morphology) and environmental parameter data for the same specimens.
- Data is temporally constrained to a specific 11-month collection period from May 2005 to March 2006.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analyses.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- paperswithcode
- Collection Method
- Collected from sediment trap Kiel 276-25 in the North Atlantic.
- Time Range
- May 2005 to March 2006
- Geography
- North Atlantic, Azores Front region