Data for: 3500-year western Pacific storm record warns of additional storm activity in a warming warm pool

In this study, a regional storm reconstruction is performed based on a grain-size analysis (1450 samples) and stratigraphic modelling of the accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon dates of benthic foraminifera (19 samples) from two neighbouring lagoon cores from Lingyang Reef in the Xisha Islands located in the northern South China Sea of the western Pacific.