Difference between revisions of "Category:Speleothem Working Group"

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Overview

In the Linked Earth context, a working group (WG) is a self-organized coalition of knowledgeable experts, whose activities are governed herewith. This page is dedicated to the discussion of data and metadata standards for speleothems (see this page for a definition of the speleothem archive), and aims to formulate a set of recommendations for such a standard. Note that chronological aspects should be discussed within the Chronologies WG.

__MEMBERS__

Specific tasks

We recommend that discussions focus on the following techniques, and explore potential commonalities.

For each chronology type, we recommend:

• structuring discussions around what scientific questions one would want to ask of the data
• listing essential, recommended, and optional information for:
  • the measurements themselves
  • any inference made from the measurements (e.g. calibration to temperature)
  • the underlying uncertainties, and what those numbers correspond to (e.g. 1-sigma or 2-sigma?)
• provide an ideal data table for each type of observation, so the community knows what to report and how to report it.
• provide separate recommendations for new and legacy datasets

Things to describe

Observations

• stable isotopes
• trace metals

Hydrology

Polls

Here are polls that the group might want to consider:

References