Preliminary Report of the First Workshop of the Intcal04 Radiocarbon Calibration/Comparison Working Group
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The first meeting of the IntCal04 working group took place at Queen's University Belfast from April 15 to 17, 2002. The participants are listed as co-authors of this report. The meeting considered criteria for the acceptance of data into the next official calibration dataset, the importance of including reliable estimates of uncertainty in both the radiocarbon ages and the cal ages, and potential methods for combining datasets. This preliminary report summarizes the criteria that were discussed, but does not yet give specific recommendations for inclusion or exclusion of individual datasets.
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The BCP and IrO should offer a dataset similar to those reflecting central and northern European later spring-summer growing seasons, such as the GeO and IrO comprising much of the existing IntCal dataset in this time period.
“Instead, the BCP and the IrO should offer a dataset similar to those reflecting central and northern European later spring-summer growing seasons, such as the GeO and IrO comprising much of the existing IntCal dataset in this time period, despite a history of issues with BCP 14C data in earlier work (2, 14, 25).”
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- Authors
- Reimer, P. J., Hughen, K. A., Guilderson, T. P., McCormac, G., Baillie, M. G. L., Bard, E., Barratt, P., Warren Beck, J., Buck, C. E., Damon, P. E., Friedrich, M., Kromer, B., Bronk Ramsey, C., Reimer, R. W., Remmele, S., Southon, J. R., Stuiver, M., & VAN der Plicht, J.
- Affiliations
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (US)
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (US)
- Queen's University Belfast (GB)
- University of Sheffield (GB)
- University of Arizona (US)
- University of Hohenheim (DE)
- Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (DE)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Corresponding author
- Reimer, Paula J
- ORCID
- Venue
- Radiocarbon
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2002
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 653-661
- ISSN
- 0033-8222 (ISSN-L)
- 1945-5755
- OpenAlex
- W1601739407
- Cited by
- 57
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- 4.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Radiocarbon (publishedVersion)
- UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona) (acceptedVersion)
- HAL AMU (submittedVersion)
- Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast) (submittedVersion)
- University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy (W-7405, -7405-ENG-48, W‐7405‐ENG‐48)
- Leverhulme Trust
- Queen's University Belfast
- Queen's University
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (W-7405-ENG 48, -7405-Eng-48)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Tree-ring climate responses
- Keywords
- radiocarbon calibration, data combination, radiocarbon dating
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