Corals of the Hawaiian Archipelago are well situated in the North Pacific Gyre (NPG) to record how bomb-produced radiocarbon (14C) has been sequestered and transported by the sea. While this signal can be traced accurately through time in reef-building corals and used to infer oceanographic processes and determine the ages of marine organisms, a comprehensive and validated record has been lacking for the Hawaiian Archipelago. In this study, a coral core from Kure Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands was used to create a high-resolution bomb 14C record for the years 1939–2002, and was then used with other 14C measurements in fish otoliths and seawater to explore differences and similarities in the bomb 14C signal throughout the Hawaiian Archipelago. The Kure Atoll sample series produced a well-defined bomb 14C curve that, with some exceptions, was similar to other coral 14C records from the Hawaiian Archipelago. Subtle differences in the coral 14C records across the region may be explained by the large-scale ocean circulation patterns and decadal cycles of the NPG. The most rapid increase of 14C, in the 1950s and 1960s, showed similar timing across the Hawaiian Archipelago and provides a robust basis for use of bomb 14C dating to obtain high precision age determinations of marine organisms. Reference otoliths of juvenile fish demonstrated the use of the post-peak 14C decline period as a viable reference in the age validation of younger and more recently collected fishes, and effectively extended the utility of bomb 14C dating to the latest 30 years.

This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Coral. The data include parameters of corals and sclerosponges with a geographic location of Western Pacific Ocean. The time period coverage is from 5 to -52 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.

This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Coral. The data include parameters of corals and sclerosponges with a geographic location of South China And Eastern Archipelagic Seas, Western Pacific Ocean. The time period coverage is from 99 to -57 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.

This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Coral. The data include parameters of corals and sclerosponges with a geographic location of Kiribati, Central Pacific Ocean. The time period coverage is from 28 to -6 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.

The data set contains bomb radiocarbon dating of otolith and other material used in age validation studies. Some are published and others are a work in progress. See reports or publications for scientific results and contact the Life History Program for status of others. Data reported is from radiocarbon analyses by NOSAMS (National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry facility at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).

Results of radiocarbon dating of deep-sea (500 m to 700 m) black corals are presented. These corals were collected off the southeastern United States as part of the Southeastern United States Deep-Sea Corals (SEADESC) Initiative.

Results of radiocarbon dating of deep-sea (500 m to 700 m) black corals are presented. These corals were collected off the southeastern United States as part of the Southeastern United States Deep-Sea Corals (SEADESC) Initiative.

This dataset includes Surface Water Radiocarbon (Δ14C) Reconstructed from Reef‐Building Zooxanthellate Corals in the Arabian Sea, Bali Sea, Makassar Strait, North Pacific Ocean, Solomon Sea and South Pacific Ocean from 1751-01-01 to 2004-12-31. The surface water radiocarbon (as Δ‰) data presented in this archive are derived from surface dwelling, reef-building hermatypic corals which have been shown to be reliable archives of ocean Σ14CO2 [eg., Guilderson et al., 1998; Kilbourne et al., 2007; and references therein] These data were collected by Stewart J. Fallon of Research School of the Earth Sciences, Australian National University, K. Halimeda Kilbourne of Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (UMCES CBL), Daniel P. Schrag of Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Tom P. Guilderson of Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Robert B. Dunbar of Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, and Nancy Grumet-Prouty of USGS Pacific Coastal & Marine Science Center as part of the Surface Water Radiocarbon from Coral Reefs dataset. CDIAC associated the following cruise ID(s) with this dataset: Coral Reefs

This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Coral. The data include parameters of corals and sclerosponges with a geographic location of South China Sea, Western Pacific Ocean. The time period coverage is from -46 to -52 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.