Great Barrier Reef Temperature Loggers for Coral Bleaching Studies, 2015-2017
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Description
Over 90 permanent temperature logger locations, 12 automatic weather stations, 6 mooring sites, and 15 wave-buoys provide hourly sea temperature data for the Great Barrier Reef region. This collection was produced by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) for the National Environmental Science Program to cover the 2015-2017 back-to-back bleaching events. The dataset includes daily climatologies, NOAA heating indicators, and links to visualisation dashboards for each site.
Use Cases
Modeling thermal stress and predicting coral bleaching events based on temperature time series.
Calculating climatological baselines and anomalies using the provided daily climatologies.
Validating satellite-derived sea surface temperature products against in-situ logger data.
Analyzing spatial variability in ocean warming during mass bleaching events across the reef.
Strengths
Data integrates measurements from over 123 distinct monitoring sites across multiple programs.
Includes derived reference data such as daily climatologies and NOAA's Degree Heating Week (DHW) indicators for 2016 and 2017.
Time range is specifically focused on the significant 2015-2017 back-to-back bleaching events.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
Data is restricted to late 2015 to mid-2017, providing a focused but limited temporal window.
Provenance
Source
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) temperature logger program, AIMS weather stations, IMOS-AODN moorings, Queensland wave monitoring program.
Collection Method
Temperature data were averaged to one-hour intervals from in-situ loggers, weather stations, moorings, and buoys.
Time Range
Late 2015 to mid-2017.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-03-19 23:35:44.984446; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Great Barrier Reef region, Australia.
Data is filed in the eAtlas enduring repository; original subsetted data requires following a link from the description page.