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Sea surface temperature JPL MUR data, Belize Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS), 2003-2015 (NCEI Accession 0291511)

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This dataset contains physical data collected in the Caribbean Sea from 2003-01-01 to 2015-11-18. These data include water temperature. The instruments used to collect these data include Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer. These data were collected by Karl D. Castillo of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as part of the "Investigating the influence of thermal history on coral growth response to recent and predicted end-of-century ocean warming across a cascade of ecological scales (Thermal History and Coral Growth)" project. The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) submitted these data to NCEI on 2019-12-11.

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Sea surface temperature at MBRS, 2002-2015

Dataset Description:
This dataset contains sea surface temperature data obtained from daily 1-km horizontal resolution SST estimates acquired from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Multi-Scale High Resolution SST (JPL MUR SST) records via the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) at the NASA JPL, Pasadena, CA (http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov).

NOTE: Data from 2012 are given twice at each site; only the first set, along with the 2003-2011 data, was used in the original analysis in Baumann et al (2016). The 2012-2015 data were only available following revision in the peer review process. It became useful for making comparisons between the in-situ data and satellite data.

These data were used in a coral study in: Baumann et al. (2016) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162098.
  • Cite as: Castillo, Karl D. (2024). Sea surface temperature JPL MUR data, Belize Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS), 2003-2015 (NCEI Accession 0291511). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0291511. Accessed [date].
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Time Period 2003-01-01 to 2015-11-18
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates
West: -88.629
East: -88.002
South: 16.13
North: 17.824
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  • Biological, chemical, physical, biogeochemical, ecological, environmental and other data collected from around the world during historical and contemporary periods of biological and chemical oceanographic exploration and research managed and submitted by the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
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  • Castillo, K. D. (2018) Sea surface temperature JPL MUR data, Belize Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS), 2003-2015. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). Dataset version 2018-04-16. https://doi.org/10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.734406.1
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Publication Dates
  • publication: 2024-04-21
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Dataset Progress Status Complete - production of the data has been completed
Historical archive - data has been stored in an offline storage facility
Data Update Frequency As needed
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Acquisition Description:
Conventional 1-km resolution satellite-derived SST measurements (infrared, IR) are contaminated by clouds, creating data-void areas. Microwave (MW) data sets can penetrate clouds to gain better temporal coverage, but with a much coarser spatial resolution (25 km) [36]. MUR combines these two datasets to present a more comprehensive and complete SST product. It employs multi-resolution variational analysis (MRBA) as an interpolation method to combine high resolution datasets with more conventional datasets, generating a product that contains no cloud contamination [36]. MUR reports estimates of foundation SST, or SST at the base of the diurnal thermocline (~5-10m depth). Comparison of in-situ temperature (recorded by HOBO® v2 data loggers), MUR, and other SST products revealed that MUR outperforms other products in estimating in-situ temperature, although it also underestimates the temperature corals experience at depth (S1 Fig). However, due to its temporal coverage and temporal resolution, high spatial resolution, lack of cloud contamination, and smaller method error compared to similar products such as Group for High Resolution SST (GHRSST), MUR was determined to be the ideal SST product for use in the current study.
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Dataset Citation
  • Cite as: Castillo, Karl D. (2024). Sea surface temperature JPL MUR data, Belize Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS), 2003-2015 (NCEI Accession 0291511). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0291511. Accessed [date].
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Theme keywords NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS WMO_CategoryCode
  • oceanography
BCO-DMO Standard Parameters Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords Originator Parameter Names
Data Center keywords NODC COLLECTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS NODC SUBMITTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords
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  • Cite as: Castillo, Karl D. (2024). Sea surface temperature JPL MUR data, Belize Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS), 2003-2015 (NCEI Accession 0291511). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0291511. Accessed [date].
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  • 2024-04-21T06:12:17Z - NCEI Accession 0291511 v1.1 was published.
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  • radiometer
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