Mg/Ca of Globigerinoides ruber albus and Turborotalita clarkei from water column and core top samples in the hypersaline Gulf of Aqaba

We provide here supplementary data of Levy et al. (2023). To investigate influencing factors of Planktic Foraminifera (PF) Mg uptake in hypersaline regions, we measured the Mg/Ca of two flux dominating PF species, Globigerinoides ruber albus and Turborotalita clarkei with its two phenotypes 'big' and 'encrusted', derived from a monthly resolved time series of sediment traps in the Gulf of Aqaba (GOA), northern Red Sea. Presented are a summary of average (mean) individual planktic Foraminifera specimen Mg/Ca as a function of depth and time. Sediment traps were deployed at depths of 120 m, 220 m, 350 m, 450 m and 570 m and a core top sample. The data provided is at a near-monthly resolution between June 2014 and June 2015. Mg/Ca was measured using single chamber Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) to account for the differences between succeeding chambers. The 'min' Mg/Ca and 'max' Mg/Ca represent distance from mean to extremities (i.e., range) for LA-ICP-MS measurements.