Age and long chain diol index from four sediment cores from the Arabian Sea

Here, we present results from four different marine archives from the western and northern Arabian Sea. They were collected from different areas during different expeditions; SO42-74KL (in 1986; Kasten core) and NIOP905 (in 1993; piston core) from the western Arabian Sea, Oman - Somali upwelling zone; SO130-289KL (in 1998; Kasten core) and PASOM3 (in 2009; gravity core) from the northern Arabian Sea. This dataset presents calibrated ages (expressed as cal kyr BP), long-chain diol long-chain diol index (LDI) and calculated sea surface temperatures. The data covers the last 25 kyr BP for two sediment cores and 35 kyr for the other two.