Water Level Data from Carrie Bow Cay Marine Station, Belize (2023-2025)

Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, water level data collected at the Smithsonian Marine Field Station using CS450 sensor and cs475a2 Radar Gauge instrumentation. The dataset, authored by Valerie Paul and last updated in May 2026, is 22.7 MB in size and available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling tidal patterns and sea level fluctuations based on water level sensor data.
• Analyzing coastal inundation risks for Belize based on time-series water level measurements.
• Calibrating hydrodynamic models using instrument-collected water level data from a specific marine station.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly geolocated at 16.802610489417635 N, 88.08191001006894 W.
• File size is 22.7 MB, indicating a substantial volume of sensor readings.
• License is clearly stated as CC-BY-4.0, permitting open reuse with attribution.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Smithsonian Carrie Bow Cay Marine Field Station, MarineGEO.

Collection Method

Collected on CS450 Water level sensor and cs475a2 Radar Gauge instrumentation.

Time Range

2023-2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-01 14:14:28; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Carrie Bow Cay, Belize (16.802610489417635 N, 88.08191001006894 W).