NOAA Coral Reef Watch Thermal History Metrics

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: NOAA Coral Reef Watch Program
Publication_Date: 20201116
Title: NOAA Coral Reef Watch Thermal History Metrics
Edition: One
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: image, web page
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: College Park, Maryland, USA
Publisher: NOAA Coral Reef Watch program
Online_Linkage:
https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/thermal_history/index.php
Description:
Abstract:
Climate change threatens even the best-protected and most-remote coral reef ecosystems. Management in the face of climate change must incorporate how various factors (e.g., benthic structure, currents and local upwelling, connectivity, herbivore abundance, thermal history) affect coral and reef ecosystem resilience. Research over the last decade indicates that thermal history is among the most important factors influencing coral reef resilience. With support from the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, Coral Reef Watch (CRW) developed a variety of Thermal History metrics for coral reef management, initially released in July 2014. In the current Version 3.1.0 (released October 2020), several Sea Surface Temperature (SST) metrics are calculated for reef-containing locations and adjacent waters and are arranged into six themes: Stress Frequency, Stress Onset, SST Variability, SST Trend, Climatology, and Annual History. The Version 3.1.0 metrics were derived from CRW's Version 3.1 daily global 5km (1/20-degree) CoralTemp satellite SST data product, for the period 1985-2019. Source data for CoralTemp are the NOAA/National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) operational near real-time daily global 5km Geostationary-Polar-orbiting (Geo-Polar) Blended Night-only SST Analysis (from 2016-present); the NOAA/NESDIS 2002-2016 reprocessed daily global 5km Geo-Polar Blended Night-only SST Analysis; and the United Kingdom Met Office 1985-2002 daily global 5km night-only SST reanalysis produced on the Operational SST and Sea Ice Analysis (OSTIA) system.
Purpose:
By providing information on the thermal history of coral reef locations and adjacent waters globally, these metrics complement the suite of monitoring and prediction products that CRW has developed as a decision support system (DSS) to provide critical and timely coral reef environment information to the U.S. and international coral reef communities.
Supplemental_Information:
The entire suite of products mentioned herein is accessible at https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/thermal_history/index.php.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 19850101
Ending_Date: 20191231
Currentness_Reference: Ground Condition
Status:
Progress: In work
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: irregular
Spatial_Domain:
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East_Bounding_Coordinate: 180.0
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 40.0
South_Bounding_Coordinate: -40.0
Keywords:
Theme:
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Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals
Theme_Keyword:
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Coral Diseases > Bleaching
Theme_Keyword:
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Coral Diseases > Bleaching > Bleaching Thermal Stress
Theme_Keyword:
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Coral Diseases > Bleaching > Sea Surface Temperature (SST)
Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Water Temperature
Theme_Keyword:
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Water Temperature > Anomaly
Theme_Keyword:
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Sea Surface Temperature
Theme_Keyword:
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Sea Surface Temperature > AVHRR
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Theme:
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Theme_Keyword: 915
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Theme_Keyword: map
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Theme_Keyword: thermal stress
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Theme_Keyword: stress
Theme_Keyword: climatology
Theme_Keyword: historical
Theme_Keyword: thermal history
Theme_Keyword: global change
Theme_Keyword: climate change
Theme_Keyword: coral
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Theme_Keyword: coral reef ecosystem
Theme_Keyword: coral bleaching
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Theme_Keyword: 014
Theme:
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Theme_Keyword: 915
Theme_Keyword:
Coral Reef Watch: Satellite- and Model-Based Products for Coral Reef Ecosystem Managers
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Place_Keyword:
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OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Western Pacific Ocean > Carolines > Palau ( Belau ) (07N134E0000)
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OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Marshall Islands > Marshall Islands (09N168E0000)
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COUNTRY/TERRITORY > Marshall Islands > Marshall Islands > Marshall Islands (09N168E0000)
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Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Gulf of Mexico > Florida
Place:
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Place_Keyword: global
Place_Keyword: coral reefs
Place_Keyword: Western hemisphere
Place_Keyword: Eastern hemisphere
Place_Keyword: Atlantic Ocean
Place_Keyword: Pacific Ocean
Place_Keyword: Indian Ocean
Temporal:
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Temporal_Keyword: historical
Temporal_Keyword: past
Access_Constraints: none
Use_Constraints:
Not intended for legal use. Data contain prediction uncertainty.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: NOAA Coral Reef Watch program
Contact_Person: NOAA Coral Reef Watch Coordinator
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address:
NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Coral Reef Watch, NCWCP, E/RA3, Room 3222, 5830 University Research Court
City: College Park
State_or_Province: Maryland
Postal_Code: 20740
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301-683-3320
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 301-683-3301
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: coralreefwatch@noaa.gov
Browse_Graphic:
Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/thermal_history/stress_frequency.php
Browse_Graphic_File_Description:
72 PNG files for each of the following Stress Frequency metrics, spanning 1985-2019: Number of Heat Stress Events (Degree Heating Week [DHW] greater than 0); Number of Significant Bleaching-level Heat Stress Events (DHW greater than or equal to 4); Number of Severe Bleaching-level Heat Stress Events (DHW greater than or equal to 8); Time between Heat Stress Events (DHW greater than 0); Time between Significant Bleaching-level Heat Stress Events (DHW greater than or equal to 4); and Time between Severe Bleaching-level Heat Stress Events (DHW greater than or equal to 8).
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: PNG
Browse_Graphic:
Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/thermal_history/stress_onset4.php
Browse_Graphic_File_Description:
72 PNG files for each of the following Stress Onset metrics, spanning 1985-2019: Mean Onset - Significant Bleaching-level Heat Stress; Earliest Onset - Significant Bleaching-level Heat Stress; and Onset Variability - Significant Bleaching-level Heat Stress.
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: PNG
Browse_Graphic:
Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/thermal_history/sst_variability.php
Browse_Graphic_File_Description:
72 PNG files for each of the following SST Variability metrics, spanning 1985-2019: Warm Season Variability; Warmest Month Variability; Average Warm Season Variability; Average Warmest Month Variability; Annual Variability; and Average Within-year Variability.
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: PNG
Browse_Graphic:
Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/thermal_history/sst_trend.php
Browse_Graphic_File_Description:
72 PNG files for each of the following SST Trend metrics, spanning 1985-2019: Warm Season Trend; Annual Trend; and Warmest Month Trend.
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: PNG
Browse_Graphic:
Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/thermal_history/climatology.php
Browse_Graphic_File_Description:
72 PNG files for each of the following Climatology metrics, spanning 1985-2012 only: Warmest Month; Climatological Temperature Range; Coolest Month; and Monthly Climatology.
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: PNG
Browse_Graphic:
Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/thermal_history/annual_history.php
Browse_Graphic_File_Description:
72 PNG files for each of the following Annual History metrics, spanning 1985-2019: Annual Maximum Sea Surface Temperature (SST); Annual Maximum SST Anomaly; Annual Maximum Degree Heating Week (DHW); Within-year SST Average; and Within-year SST Variability.
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: PNG
Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
The accuracy of this product suite depends on the accuracy of CRW's Version 3.1 CoralTemp SST product (which was developed from a combination of NOAA/NESDIS' operational daily global 5km Geo-Polar Blended Night-only SST Analysis; NESDIS’ 2002-2016 reprocessed daily global 5km Geo-Polar Blended Night-only SST Analysis; and the United Kingdom Met Office’s 1985-2002 daily global 5km night-only SST reanalysis on the OSTIA) and CRW's SST climatologies and algorithms used for deriving the 5km SST Anomaly, Coral Bleaching HotSpot, and DHW products. More detailed information can be found on the Thermal History product suite home page: https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/thermal_history/index.php.
Logical_Consistency_Report: none
Completeness_Report:
These Version 3.1.0 Thermal History products will be evaluated by scientists, resource managers and other coral reef stakeholders around the world. Values are provided for pixels containing reefs, and those within a buffer distance of reef locations, as identified in the ReefBase, Millennium Mapping Project and Reefs at Risk datasets, among other datasets. Product revision will continue to be based on user feedback.
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
Users are referred to the product description on CRW's Version 3.1 daily global 5km CoralTemp SST web page (https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/5km/index_5km_sst.php) and to the NOAA/NESDIS Geostationary-Polar-orbiting Blended Global SST Analysis page, available from the NOAA CoastWatch website (https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/cw/satellite-data-products/sea-surface-temperature/sea-surface-temperature-near-real-time-geopolar-blended.html).
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:
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Lineage:
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: NOAA/NESDIS
Publication_Date: 20180801
Title: NOAA CRW Version 3.1 Daily Global 5km CoralTemp SST dataset
Edition: one
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: data file
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: College Park, Maryland, USA
Publisher: NOAA/NESDIS
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Time_Period_Information:
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Beginning_Date: 19850101
Ending_Date: Present
Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: NOAA CRW 5km CoralTemp SST
Source_Contribution:
All metrics within the Thermal History product suite were derived from the Version 3.1 Daily Global 5km CoralTemp SST dataset.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
See product descriptions on pages linked from: https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/thermal_history/index.php.
Process_Date: Not complete
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: NOAA Coral Reef Watch program
Contact_Person: NOAA Coral Reef Watch Coordinator
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address:
NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Coral Reef Watch, NCWCP, E/RA3, Room 3222, 5830 University Research Court
City: College Park
State_or_Province: Maryland
Postal_Code: 20740
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301-683-3320
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 301-683-3301
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: coralreefwatch@noaa.gov
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There are 7200 grid intersections in each row (at a pre-defined latitude) and 1390 grid intersections in each column (at a pre-defined longitude). Each grid is 0.05 degrees latitude by 0.05 degrees longitude in size, centered at latitudes from 35.275S northward to 34.175N and at longitudes from 179.975W eastward to 179.975E.
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https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/thermal_history/index.php
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NOAA Coral Reef Watch Thermal History Metrics images in PNG format
Attribute_Definition: These are the image display of the Thermal History data
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Contact_Person: NOAA Coral Reef Watch Coordinator
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address:
NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Coral Reef Watch, NCWCP, E/RA3, Room 3222, 5830 University Research Court
City: College Park
State_or_Province: Maryland
Postal_Code: 20740
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301-683-3320
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 301-683-3301
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: coralreefwatch@noaa.gov
Resource_Description: Downloadable Data
Distribution_Liability:
NOAA makes no warranty regarding these data, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. NOAA cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in these data, nor as a result of the failure of these data to function on a particular system.
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Online_Option:
Computer_Contact_Information:
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https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/thermal_history/index.php
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Offline_Option:
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Recording_Format: none
Compatibility_Information: The data formats provided are commonly used data formats.
Fees: none
Ordering_Instructions:
The product in various formats may be downloaded from the CRW website or obtained directly from the distributor.
Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20201116
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: NOAA Coral Reef Watch program
Contact_Person: NOAA Coral Reef Watch Coordinator
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address:
NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Coral Reef Watch, NCWCP, E/RA3, Room 3222, 5830 University Research Court
City: College Park
State_or_Province: Maryland
Postal_Code: 20740
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301-683-3320
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 301-683-3301
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: coralreefwatch@noaa.gov
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