NOAA's National Coral Reef Monitoring Program provides hourly-averaged seawater temperature data from subsurface recorders deployed at permanent coral reef sites in the Pacific Remote Island Areas. SeaBird Electronics high-accuracy loggers are deployed for three-year periods at depths from 0 to 30 meters along transects. Data collection is led by the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center's Coral Reef Ecosystem Program.
Use Cases
- Analyzing hourly temperature variability and thermal stress events at specific reef sites and depths.
- Modeling long-term warming trends and climate impacts on coral ecosystems in the Pacific Remote Island Areas.
- Calibrating satellite-derived sea surface temperature data with in-situ, depth-stratified measurements.
- Assessing reef health by correlating temperature time series with coral bleaching survey data.
Strengths
- Data originates from a standardized, ongoing national monitoring program (NOAA NCRMP).
- Uses high-accuracy SeaBird Electronics (SBE) temperature loggers with a deployment period of 3 years.
- Provides processed, hourly-averaged data from raw samples collected at 1 to 20-minute intervals.
Limitations
- Key metadata such as row count, specific column names, and exact temporal coverage are unavailable from all sources.
- Data gaps longer than one hour are padded with null values due to potential instrument failure or battery death.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP)
- Collection Method
- Data collected using subsurface temperature recorders (STRs) deployed for 3 years along depth transects at permanent monitoring sites.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
- 2026-03-05 23:57:54.344317
- Geography
- Coral reef sites in the Pacific Remote Island Areas (e.g., Baker Island), Central Pacific Ocean.