Temperature logger data collected from the site of Green Island, Queensland, in the Great Barrier Reef. The data spans from 26 March 1996 to 05 September 2023. It was collected by the Australian Ocean Data Network.
Use Cases
- Modeling coral bleaching risk based on long-term sea temperature data.
- Analyzing seasonal and inter-annual temperature variability in a reef ecosystem.
- Calibrating satellite-derived sea surface temperature products with in-situ logger data.
- Studying the impact of climate change on a specific Great Barrier Reef location.
Strengths
- Data collection spans over 27 years, from 1996 to 2023.
- Focuses on a specific, ecologically significant location: Green Island in the Great Barrier Reef.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Collected by one or more temperature loggers deployed around Green Island.
- Time Range
- 26 March 1996 to 05 September 2023
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-27 15:44:35.909851; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Green Island, Queensland, Great Barrier Reef