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Towards the construction of regional marine radiocarbon calibration curves: an unsupervised machine learning approach
Ana-Cristina Mârza
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, United Kingdom
Laurie Menviel
Climate Change Research Centre, The Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia
Luke C. Skinner
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Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, United Kingdom
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Radiocarbon serves as a powerful dating tool, but the calibration of marine radiocarbon dates presents significant challenges because the whole surface ocean cannot be represented by a single calibration curve. Here we use climate model outputs and data to assess a novel method for developing regional marine calibration curves. Our results are encouraging and point to a way forward for solving the marine radiocarbon age calibration problem without relying on model simulations of the past.
Radiocarbon serves as a powerful dating tool, but the calibration of marine radiocarbon dates...
