Comment on essd-2022-198
Year: 2022
Type: peer-review
Abstract: This paper presents version 1.0 of the World Atlas of Last Interglacial Shorelines (WALIS), a global database of sea-level proxies and samples dated to marine isotope stage 5 ( â¼ â80 to 130âka). The database includes a series of datasets compiled in the framework of a special issue published in this journal ( https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/special_issue1055.html , last access: 15 December 2022). This paper collates the individual contributions (archived in a Zenodo community at https://zenodo.org/communities/walis_database/ , last access: 15 December 2022) into an open-access, standalone database (Rovere et al., 2022, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7348242 ). The release of WALIS 1.0 includes complete documentation and scripts to download, analyze, and visualize the data ( https://alerovere.github.io/WALIS/ , last access: 15 December 2022). The database contains 4545 sea-level proxies (e.g., marine terraces or fossil beach deposits), 4110 dated samples (e.g., corals dated with U-series), and 280 other time constraints (e.g., biostratigraphic constraints or tephra layers) interconnected with several tables containing accessory data and metadata. By creating a centralized database of sea-level proxy data for the Last Interglacial, the WALIS database will be a valuable resource to the broader paleoclimate community to facilitate dataâmodel integration and intercomparisons, assessments of sea-level reconstructions between different studies and different regions, as well as comparisons between past sea-level history and other paleoclimate proxy data.
Authors: Rovere, Alessio, Ryan, Deirdre D., Vacchi, Matteo, Dutton, Andrea, Simms, Alexander R., Murray-Wallace, Colin V.
Language: Interlingue
Subfield: Atmospheric Science
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4292202350