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Is there a Fifth International Radiocarbon Intercomparison (VIRI)?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

E M Scott ,
C Bryant ,
G T Cook  and
P Naysmith
E M Scott
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QW, Scotland.
C Bryant
Affiliation:
NERC Radiocarbon Laboratory, East Kilbride G75, Scotland.
G T Cook
Affiliation:
SUERC Radiocarbon Laboratory, East Kilbride G75, Scotland.
P Naysmith
Affiliation:
SUERC Radiocarbon Laboratory, East Kilbride G75, Scotland.
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Abstract

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The issue of comparability of measurements (and thus bias, accuracy, and precision of measurement) from diverse laboratories is one which has been the focus of some attention both within the radiocarbon community and the wider user communities. As a result, the 14C community has undertaken a widescale, far-reaching, and evolving program of intercomparisons, to the benefit of laboratories and users alike. The benefit to the users is, however, indirect, since the 14C intercomparisons have not been used to generate “league tables” of performance, but rather to allow individual laboratories to check procedures and modify them as required.

The historical progression of 14C laboratory intercomparisons from the Third (TIRI, completed in 1995, Gulliksen and Scott 1995) and Fourth (FIRI, completed in 2000, Scott 2003; Boaretto et al. 2000; Bryant et al. 2002) suggests that a Fifth (VIRI) should also be expected. We describe the plans for VIRI.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , 2003 , pp. 493 - 495
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