A high-resolution synthesis dataset for multistressor analyses along the US West Coast

• Published in: Earth System Science Data
• Main Authors: Kennedy, Esther G., Zulian, Meghan, Hamilton, Sara L., Hill, Tessa M., Delgado, Manuel, Fish, Carina R., Gaylord, Brian, Kroeker, Kristy J., Palmer, Hannah M., Ricart, Aurora M., Sanford, Eric, Spalding, Ana K., Ward, Melissa, Carrasco, Guadalupe, Elliott, Meredith, Grisby, Genece V., Harris, Evan, Jahncke, Jaime, Rocheleau, Catherine N., Westerink, Sebastian, Wilmot, Maddie I.
• Other Authors: California Ocean Protection Council, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US), National Park Service (US), National Science Foundation (US), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2024
• Subjects: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/356129; https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-219-2024

25 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, supplement https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-219-2024.-- Data availability: The full Multistressor Observations of Coastal Hypoxia and Acidification dataset, parameter metadata, and dataset metadata tables are publicly available for download at NCEI as accession 0277984 at https://doi.org/10.25921/2vve-fh39 (Kennedy et al., 2023). The downloadable content includes the full MOCHA dataset available as a text file, the daily summarized dataset discussed extensively above available as a text file (aggregated_daily_dataset.csv), standard NCEI accession parameter metadata which provide an overview for each variable included in the text files (“SubmissionForm_carbon_v1_428.xlsx”), and a bespoke dataset metadata table describing each included dataset with citations and links to reference papers (MOCHA_dataset_metadata_table_v2.csv). This data package is discoverable via the NOAA Ocean Acidification Portal, NCEI Geoportal (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/geoportal/#searchPanel, last access: 30 April 2023) and other online discovery tools. The dataset metadata table is also available in the Supplement.-- Code availability: Code for performing carbonate system calculations with the formatted dataset, creating a summarized dataset aggregated by day and making all included figures, is available on GitHub at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10408321 (Kennedy, 2023) Global trends of ocean warming, deoxygenation, and acidification are not easily extrapolated to coastal environments. Local factors, including intricate hydrodynamics, high primary productivity, freshwater inputs, and pollution, can exacerbate or attenuate global trends and produce complex mosaics of physiologically stressful or favorable conditions for organisms. In the California Current System (CCS), coastal oceanographic monitoring programs document some of this complexity; however, data fragmentation and limited data availability constrain our understanding of when and where intersecting stressful temperatures, carbonate system ...