Seawater Temperature and Sea Level in Nanwan Bay, Taiwan (2007-2008)

Nanwan Bay, a semi-enclosed bay in southern Taiwan, is the location for this oceanographic dataset. It contains seawater temperature and sea level measurements recorded at two sites between May 2007 and September 2008. The data was collected by I-Huan Lee and is provided in MATLAB .mat format.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal water temperature dynamics based on time-series data from two locations.
• Analyzing sea level variations at a specific inlet near a power plant, as mentioned in the description.
• Studying the relationship between temperature and sea level at a 5-meter depth monitoring site.
• Calibrating hydrodynamic models for semi-enclosed bays using the provided temporal data points.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 16-month period from May 2007 to September 2008.
• Measurements were taken at two distinct locations (a seamount bottom and a power plant inlet) and two depths (30m and 5m).
• Includes simultaneous recordings of both temperature and sea level at one of the monitoring sites.

Limitations

• Row count and total data volume are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

I-Huan Lee

Collection Method

Direct measurement via sensors deployed at two locations in Nanwan Bay.

Time Range

May 2007 to September 2008

Geography

Nanwan Bay, southern Taiwan