National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Water Temperature Data from Subsurface Temperature Recorders (STRs) deployed at coral reef sites along the Florida Keys Reef Tract from 2013-12-02 to 2016-12-13 (NCEI Accession 0171796)

• Main Authors: Derek Manzello, Manzello, Derek, Enochs, Ian, Dutra, Elizabeth, Morris, John, Kolodziej, Graham, Jankulak, Mike, Hendee, James, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2018
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/OAR/AOML > Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 0171796; 171796; WATER TEMPERATURE; Temperature Sensors; in situ; US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory; US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; National Centers for Environmental Information; Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP); CORAL REEF STUDIES; National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP); North Atlantic Ocean; oceanography; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; North Atlantic
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Water temperature data are collected using subsurface temperature recorders (STRs) that aid in the monitoring of seawater temperature variability at permanent coral reef sites along the Florida Reef Tract in the Florida Keys as part of the NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP). High-accuracy temperature loggers made by SeaBird Electronics (SBE) are deployed on the reef for a period of 3 years at depths ranging from 0 to 30 meters along depth transects at Ocean and Climate Change monitoring survey sites. When a STR is recovered, typically another STR is deployed in the same location. Raw data contains temperatures collected in 5-minute intervals each hour. Temperature data are archived by region, location and year recovered. For analysis purposes, temperature data is divided by region then by location: upper, middle and lower keys. The temperature data provided in this data set were collected from STRs deployed at existing long-term monitoring sites during the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) led NCRMP missions.