Interlaboratory study for coral Sr/Ca and other element/Ca ratio measurements
Interlaboratory study for coral Sr/Ca and other element/Ca ratio measurements
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DOI:
10.1002/ggge.20230
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发表时间:
2013-09-01
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3.5
通讯作者:
You, Chen-Feng
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作者:
Hathorne, Ed C.;Gagnon, Alex;You, Chen-Feng
The Sr/Ca ratio of coral aragonite is used to reconstruct past sea surface temperature (SST). Twenty-one laboratories took part in an interlaboratory study of coral Sr/Ca measurements. Results show interlaboratory bias can be significant, and in the extreme case could result in a range in SST estimates of 7 degrees C. However, most of the data fall within a narrower range and the Porites coral reference material JCp-1 is now characterized well enough to have a certified Sr/Ca value of 8.838 mmol/mol with an expanded uncertainty of 0.089 mmol/mol following International Association of Geoanalysts (IAG) guidelines. This uncertainty, at the 95% confidence level, equates to 1.5 degrees C for SST estimates using Porites, so is approaching fitness for purpose. The comparable median within laboratory error is