Production rate calibration
Here a global compilation of 10Be and 26Al (and 14C) production rate calibration data published 2009-2022 is presented in tab-delimited text files.
Calibration methodology:
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All data has been divided into calibration sites including samples from one location with a single deglaciation age. For
14C production rate calibration, the sites follow
Koester and Lifton (2023).
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Calibration ages are derived from the original publications with radiocarbon ages generally recalibrated against
IntCal20,
SHCal20, and
Marine20 calibration curves using
MatCal.
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The
10Be/
26Al/
14C concentrations from single sample repeat measurements have been combined as uncertainty-weighted means. To account for interlaboratory measurement uncertainties (
Jull et al. 2015;
Lifton et al. 2015;
Wilcken et al. 2026), the highest of the reported (or uncertainty-weighted) concentration uncertainty or 2% of the concentration is used for the calibration.
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For all calibration sites with at least three separate samples, an uncertainty-weighted site reference production rate is calculated for the expage calculator (
prodrate.m). The calibration age uncertainty, which is not an independent variable for each sample of a calibration site, is added in quadrature to the initial site reference production rate.
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To avoid data affected by prior and/or incomplete exposure, well-clustered site production rates are combined into a global 10Be/26Al/14C reference production rate. For scattered site production rates, with chi-square statistics p-value < 0.05 (calculated with minimum concentration uncertainty of 5% to not punish high precision measurements) for the hypothesis that all sample production rates are drawn from one normal distribution, a maximum of 1/3 of the samples are excluded as outliers (still requiring a minimum of three separate samples).
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For global average production rates, the arithmetic mean of the well-clustered site reference production rates are used. To estimate the production rate uncertainty the root-mean-square deviation of all single sample production rates included in the well-clustered sites is used. This yields the global reference 10Be (4.17 ± 0.25 atoms g–1 yr–1), 26Al (28.48 ± 2.36 atoms g–1 yr–1), and 14C (12.75 ± 1.46 atoms g–1 yr–1) production rates.
Global production rate kml: prodrate.kml
Global production rate log: P-log.txt
The production rate calibration data is presented in the following text files:
P-input – Input for production rate calibration of 10Be, 26Al, 14C production rates.
P-output – Production rate calibration output with reference 10Be, 26Al, 14C production rates.
P-origin – Original data with individual reported 10Be, 26Al, 14C measurements.
P-comments – Comments on the data.
P-refs – References for the production rate calibration.
For 2016-2019 data:
P-sites – Calibration site and global average reference 10Be and 26Al production rates.
P-calib – Data used for calibration of reference 10Be and 26Al production rates.
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