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Correcting a systematic bias in an ocean drilling project site 882 alkenone sea surface temperature record
Ocean Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Rocío P. Caballero-Gill
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Timothy D. Herbert
Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Harry J. Dowsett
U.S. Geological Survey, Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, Reston, VA, USA
Alfredo Martínez-García
Max Plank Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
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Short summary
Accurate information about the surface ocean temperatures are important for understanding Earth's climate history. Here, we correct a sea surface temperature record from the critical subarctic North Pacific region for systematic biases introduced into the algal-biomarker-based geologic temperature estimates by the analytical method used by the original study.
Accurate information about the surface ocean temperatures are important for understanding...
