National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Dissolved inorganic carbon, total alkalinity, pH and other variables collected from surface discrete observations using infrared dissolved inorganic carbon analyzer, alkalinity titrator and other instruments from Caribbean Sea, Salt River Bay, St. Croix, St. Thomas Brewers Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands (Class II climate monitoring sites) from 2013-09-09 to 2014-07-02 (NCEI Accession 0132021) ...

• Main Authors: Manzello, Derek P., Enochs, Ian C., Kolodziej, Graham, Carlton, Renée D., Valentino, Lauren M.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information 2015
• Subjects: Pacific; River Bay; Salt River; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7289/v58c9tb6; https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0132021

This dataset contains data collected to monitor coral reef carbonate chemistry over time, at US affiliated coral reef sites, through quantifying key chemical parameters that are expected to be impacted by ocean acidification. This effort addresses OAP programmatic themes 1 and 5 by maintaining the coral reef portion of the OA monitoring network and developing a procedure for data synthesis, assimilation, and distribution. Incorporating an interdisciplinary approach, this project will collect, process, analyze, and steward dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and total alkalinity (TA) water sample data to document seawater carbonate chemistry at Class 0, II, III climate monitoring sites in coral reef areas of the US Atlantic and Pacific regions. ...