Rib Reef Water Temperature Time Series from 2011 to 2017

Water temperature data collected at Rib Reef on Australia's Great Barrier Reef from 14 December 2011 to 20 July 2017. The data was gathered by the Great Barrier Reef Wireless Sensor Network, part of the Integrated Marine Observing System's Wireless Sensor Networks Facility.

Use Cases

• Modeling coral bleaching events based on prolonged high-temperature periods.
• Analyzing seasonal and inter-annual water temperature cycles on a coral reef.
• Validating satellite-derived sea surface temperature data with in-situ sensor measurements.
• Studying the impact of ocean warming on reef biodiversity and health.

Strengths

• Data covers a continuous time series of over five and a half years.
• Collected by a dedicated ocean observing system (IMOS/GBROOS) with a described methodology.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data freshness should be verified; the last metadata update is dated 2026-06-16.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network via the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS).

Collection Method

Collected by the Great Barrier Reef Wireless Sensor Network.

Time Range

14 December 2011 to 20 July 2017

Freshness

Last metadata update 2026-06-16; data collection ended in 2017.

Geography

Rib Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Australia