46164
Water temperature data from Subsurface Temperature Recorders (STRs) deployed at coral reef sites in Timor-Leste from 2012 to 2014
Timor: Temperature (STRs)
Data Set
Published / External
27416
Timor Leste
Project
Completed
2017
Water temperature data were collected by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) using subsurface temperature recorders (STRs) deployed at fixed climate survey sites located on hard bottom shallow water (< 30 m) habitats in Timor-Leste. Climate sites were established by CREP to establish ecological baselines for climate change by measuring multiple features of the coral reef environment (in addition to the data described herein) over time.
These STRs or high-accuracy temperature loggers made by SeaBird Electronics (SBE) were deployed on the reef for a period of 2 years from October 2012 to October 2014, and the sample interval was set to one hour.
STRs aid in the monitoring of seawater temperature variability. These water temperature time series data for Timor-Leste, along with other data collected at the climate survey sites (water chemistry, calcification rates, invertebrate biodiversity, and benthic cover, all archived separately), can be used to help scientists assess and understand how coral reefs are responding to thermal stress that can lead to coral bleaching. The temperature data can be accessed online via the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Ocean Archive.
In 2011, NOAA and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Timor-Leste Mission formed a 5-year bi-lateral partnership agreement from 2012 to 2016, in support of the Government of Timor-Leste—particularly the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF)—by addressing significant information gaps in their nearshore marine ecosystems. Specifically, MAF asked NOAA to address the following questions:
1.Where are the nearshore marine resources?
2.What are the nearshore marine resources?
3.How are they changing over time and what threats are potentially causing these changes?
4.What approaches are needed to manage and conserve the nearshore marine resources?
With financial support from USAID and in-kind support from the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP), the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted baseline ecosystem assessment surveys to inform ecosystem-based management planning in Timor-Leste. The primary activities conducted by NOAA to answer these questions included:
1.satellite mapping of nearshore habitats,
2.conducting coral reef ecosystem assessments,
3.establishing ecological baselines for climate change, and
4.building management capacity by developing a spatial data framework
The temperature data described herein resulted from the third activity to establish ecological baselines for climate change.
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. 2017. Interdisciplinary baseline ecosystem assessment surveys to inform ecosystem-based management planning in Timor-Leste: Final Report. Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, PIFSC Special Publication, SP-17-002, 234 p. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5/SP-PIFSC-17-002.
As the survey methods described and used herein are also implemented as part of the NOAA Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (Pacific RAMP)—an ecosystem-scale interdisciplinary coral reef monitoring program—the data from Timor-Leste are directly comparable to and informed by data collected by NOAA-CREP throughout the U.S. Pacific Islands and Territories. Furthermore, the methods used for establishing ecological baselines for climate change in Timor-Leste (Chapter 4) are being adopted and implemented at 21 sites across eight member states of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission within the Western Pacific (WESTPAC) region. These data provide a foundation for comparing the ecological baselines under current and future stresses associated with climate change in the Coral Triangle region.
Theme
ISO 19115 Topic Category
oceans
Theme
CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus
Numeric Data Sets > Oceanography
Theme
CoRIS Theme Thesaurus
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Reef Habitat
Theme
CoRIS Theme Thesaurus
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment
Theme
CoRIS Theme Thesaurus
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Baseline studies
Theme
CoRIS Theme Thesaurus
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > In Situ Physical
Theme
CoRIS Theme Thesaurus
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs
Theme
CoRIS Theme Thesaurus
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Water Temperature
Theme
CoRIS Theme Thesaurus
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Water Temperature > Bottom
Theme
NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS
DEPTH - OBSERVATION
Theme
NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS
Water Temperature
Theme
NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS
Continuous
Theme
NODC PROJECT NAMES THESAURUS
CORAL REEF STUDIES
Theme
NODC PROJECT NAMES THESAURUS
Coral Triangle Initiative
Theme
NODC SUBMITTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS
US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center; Ecosystem Sciences Division; Coral Reef Ecosystem Program
Theme
CRED
Theme
CREP
Theme
Coral Reef Ecosystem Division
Theme
Coral Reef Ecosystem Program
Theme
PIFSC
Theme
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
Theme
STR
Theme
Subsurface temperature recorder
Theme
USAID
Theme
United States Agency for International Development
Spatial
CoRIS Place Thesaurus
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (East Timor) (09S126E0001)
Spatial
CoRIS Place Thesaurus
OCEAN BASIN > Indian Ocean > Timor Sea > Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (East Timor) (09S126E0001)
Spatial
NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS
Indian Ocean
Spatial
NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS
Timor Sea
Spatial
Atauro
Spatial
Baucau
Spatial
Bobonaro
Spatial
Dili
Spatial
Lautem
Spatial
Manatuto
Spatial
Timor-Leste
Spatial
Vila MPA
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
Honolulu
HI
USA
Data Set
CSV Files
None Planned
Table (digital)
Data fields include metadata (region, location, site tag, site ID, depth, coordinates, deploy and recovery mission, deployment and recovery date), instrument information (type, manufacturer, model, serial number), and temperature observations (temperature in degrees Celsius, date, year, month, day, and hour of observation, and date range of time series)
While every effort has been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable within the limits of the current state of the art, NOAA cannot assume liability for any damages caused by errors or omissions in the data, nor as a result of the failure of the data to function on a particular system. NOAA makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty.
PIFSC Coral Reef Ecosystem Program and funded by the United States Agency for International Development
Seabird Electronics subsurface temperature recorder (STR)
STRs are attached to a mounting bracket with weights and then strapped to solid substrate at the benthos using cable ties.
Not applicable
47070
Temperature data entities and attributes
Published / External
Completed
Entities and attributes for temperature data from subsurface temperature recorders
Spreadsheet
Yes
Subsurface Temperature Recorders
MINUTE
NUMBER
No
No
Active
Digital value of minutes (e.g. 55). Typically this value is zero in the dataset
SECOND
NUMBER
No
No
Active
Digital value of seconds (e.g. 55). Typically this value is zero in the dataset
SITE_TAG
NVARCHAR2
No
No
Active
Unique ID for deployed instrument based on site and depth. Contains the previx "CTI_OCEAN_" followed by a sequential number (008 to 025)
DEPTH_M
NUMBER
No
No
Active
Depth in meters (4-25 m)
REGION
NVARCHAR2
No
No
Active
Region where instruments were deployed (Coral Triangle).
LOCATION
NVARCHAR2
No
No
Active
Location where instruments were deployed (Timor-Leste)
INSTRUMENT_TYPE
NVARCHAR2
No
No
Active
Code for general type of instrument (STR = Subsurface Temperature Recorder)
INSTRUMENT_SN
NVARCHAR2
No
No
Active
11-digit Serial number of STR
DEPLOY_MISSION
NVARCHAR2
No
No
Active
Unique Identifier for mission when instruments were deployed (CTI 2012 TIM)
DEPLOY_UTC
DATE
No
No
Active
UTC date instrument was deployed (Oct 15 to Oct 25, 2012)
RETRIEVE_MISSION
NVARCHAR2
No
No
Active
Unique Identifier for mission when instruments were recovered (CTI 2014 TIM)
RETRIEVE_UTC
DATE
No
No
Active
UTC date instrument was recovered (Sept 16 to Oct 9 2014)
DATA_START
DATE
No
No
Active
UTC date the instrument began recording data (Oct 15 to Oct 25, 2012)
DATA_END
DATE
No
No
Active
UTC date the instrument stopped recording data (could be different from retrieve date if STR stopped recording before it was recovered; Sept 16 to Oct 9 2014).
_DATE
Date
No
No
Active
Local date of temperature observation Oct 15 2012 to Oct 8 2014 (mm/dd/yyyy)
SITE_ID
NVARCHAR2
No
No
Active
Unique ID for climate sites (3-digit place code, 2-digit number, separated by a dash (DIL_02). A SITE ID can have multiple SITE_TAGS if multiple STRs were deployed along a depth transect at the site.
INSTRUMENT_MFG
NVARCHAR2
No
No
Active
Manufacturer of STRs (SeaBird Electronics)
INSTRUMENT_MODEL
NVARCHAR2
No
No
Active
STR model (SBE 39)
1
SITETAG
NVARCHAR2
75
No
No
Active
Unique ID for Site
2
LATITUDE
NUMBER
No
No
Active
Latitude in decimal degree format (-8.22 to -8.85)
decimal degree
3
LONGITUDE
NUMBER
No
No
Active
Longitude in decimal degree format (125.01 to 127.31)
decimal degree
4
DEPTH
NUMBER
No
No
Active
Depth in meters
meters
5
REGIONCODE
NVARCHAR2
255
No
No
Active
Unique ID for Region
6
LOCATIONCODE
NVARCHAR2
255
No
No
Active
3-letter Unique Location ID
7
INSTRUMENTTYPE
NVARCHAR2
255
No
No
Active
Code for general typee of instrument (e.g. STR = Subsurface Temperature Recorder)
8
INSTRUMENTSN
NVARCHAR2
255
No
No
Active
Serial Number of Instrument
9
DEPLOYCRUISE
NVARCHAR2
255
No
No
Active
Unique Identifier for the Deployment Cruise
10
DEPLOYUTC
DATE
No
No
Active
Date of Deployment in the format DD-MMM-YY
11
RETRIEVECRUISE
NVARCHAR2
255
No
No
Active
Unique Identifier for the Retrieval Cruise
12
RETRIEVEUTC
DATE
No
No
Active
Date of Retrieval in the format DD-MMM-YY
13
VALIDDATASTART
DATE
No
No
Active
Date the instrument began reporting valid data in the format DD-MMM-YY
14
VALIDDATAEND
DATE
No
No
Active
Date the instrument stopped reporting valid data in the format DD-MMM-YY
15
YEAR
NUMBER
No
No
Active
4-digit year of temperature observation (2012 to 2014)
16
MONTH
NUMBER
No
No
Active
Month of temperature observation (1-12)
17
DAY
NUMBER
No
No
Active
Local day of temperature observation (1-31)
18
HOUR
NUMBER
No
No
Active
Local hour of temperature observation (0-23)
19
TIMESTAMP
Date
No
No
Active
Hourly average in the format DD-MMM-YY HH:mm:ss where Mmm = 3-digit month (e.g. DEC) and mm = two-digit minutes
20
TEMP_C
NUMBER
No
No
Active
Water temperature in degrees Celsius
degree C
Data Steward
2012
Person
Oliver, Thomas
thomas.oliver@noaa.gov
1845 Wasp Blvd.
Honolulu
HI
96818
USA
(808)725-5444
Distributor
2017
Organization
National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland
NCEI-MD
NOAA/NESDIS E/OC SSMC3, 4th Floor, 1351 East-West Highway
Silver Spring
MD
20910-3282
(301) 713-3277
Distributor
2012
2017
Person
Trick, Kevin L
kevin.trick@noaa.gov
1845 Wasp Blvd.
Honolulu
HI
96818
USA
808-725-5421
Email preferred
Metadata Contact
2012
Person
DesRochers, Annette M
annette.desrochers@noaa.gov
1845 Wasp Blvd.
Honolulu
HI
96818
USA
(808)725-5461
8 am - 5 pm
Email preferred
Originator
2012
Organization
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
PIFSC
pifsc.info@noaa.gov
1845 Wasp Blvd.
Honolulu
HI
96818
USA
808-725-5360
https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov
Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center homepage
Online Resource
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Point of Contact
2015
Person
Oliver, Thomas
thomas.oliver@noaa.gov
1845 Wasp Blvd.
Honolulu
HI
96818
USA
(808)725-5444
Email preferred
Point of Contact
2012
2015
Person
Young, Charles W
charles.young@noaa.gov
1845 Wasp Blvd.
Honolulu
HI
96818
USA
Email preferred
Ground Condition
Timor-Leste
125.013243
127.312221
-8.224317
-8.853261
Extent of climate survey sites in Timor-Leste.
Range
2012-10-15
2014-10-08
Time frame of temperature data for Timor-Leste
Unclassified
Not applicable
Not applicable
NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) Data Sharing Recommendations, version 9.0 updated August 12, 2015:
CREP welcomes the opportunity to collaborate on research issues contributing to the scientific basis for better management of marine ecosystems. CREP has a very diverse set of field activities that generates large volumes of data using an array of data collection protocols.
The following recommendations are for your consideration as you use this data:
1) Data analyses should take all field exigencies into account. The most effective way to do this would be active collaboration with CREP principal investigators.
2) In all presentations, product releases, or publications using data generated by CREP, proper acknowledgement of both CREP and the individuals responsible for data collection is expected. Citing the DOI (if available) is preferred, a non-DOI example is listed below.
3) If you collect or generate data for the same study areas, CREP requests that you share relevant information on complimentary data collections.
4) Those receiving data are strongly urged to inform the CREP Data Management Team of any errors and discrepancies that are discovered during the course of using these data. They are further urged to bring to the attention of the Team all problems and difficulties encountered in using these data. This information is necessary in order to improve the collections and to facilitate more efficient and economical data processing and retrieval. The users are asked to supply copies of any missing data that may be located, and to provide information as to significant subsets and special aggregations of data that are developed in using the material provided.
Example acknowledgment:
"This publication makes use of data products gathered by the Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), with funding support from the United States Agency for International Development. The analysis and interpretations presented here are solely that of the current authors.”
Data can be accessed online via the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Ocean Archive.
None
These oceanographic data are PRELIMINARY data and have not been screened for accuracy. NOAA can not be held liable for use of these data in a manner other than for perusal of preliminary oceanographic data for scientific research on coral reefs ecosystems.
Please cite NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) when using the data.
Suggested citation:
Coral Reef Ecosystem Program; Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (2017). Water temperature data from Subsurface Temperature Recorders (STRs) deployed at coral reef sites in Timor-Leste from 2012 to 2014. NOAA's National Center for Environmental Information, https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/46164.
None
None
http://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0168931
2017
Organization
National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland
STR_Temperature_Timor_2014.csv
Compiled temperature time series data from subsurface temperature recorders deployed in Timor-Leste in 2012 by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) and recovered in 2014.
2017-11-24T00:00:00
csv (comma-separated values)
CSV - Comma Separated Values (Text)
http://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0168931
2017
Organization
National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland
STR_FieldData_Timor_2014.csv
Field metadata for subsurface temperature recorders deployed in Timor-Leste in 2012 by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) and recovered in 2015. This record contains information about the instrument, as well as the SITE_ID for the location where each STR was deployed.
2017-11-24T00:00:00
csv (comma-separated values)
CSV - Comma Separated Values (Text)
https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred/img/diver_deploying_small_instrument_med.jpg
Browse Graphic
jpg
A diver deploying a small monitoring instrument (STR).
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/final-count-timor-leste/
Online Resource
PIFSC blog post, Nov 2012: The final count: summary of mission to Timor-Leste in 2012
https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/timor-leste-atauro/
Online Resource
PIFSC blog post, Sept 2014: Scientists return to Timor-Leste for reef monitoring mission
https://www.coris.noaa.gov/activities/projects/timor-leste/
Online Resource
Timor-Leste project portal on the NOAA Coral Reef Information Service website where NOAA's final report for Timor-Leste and the datasets generated by NOAA CREP as part of the project can be downloaded.
https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred/coral_triangle_initiative.php
Online Resource
PHP
Information about the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program's activities in the Coral Triangle.
Raw data are downloaded from an STR using the SeaBird Electronics SeaTerm software program and saved as .ASC files. The data are quality controlled using MatLab, and the files are saved as .CDP files and then migrated into the Oracle database. PIFSC Oracle database view: MV_OCN_STR_TIMESERIES
All NULL temperature values are included to bridge data gaps in order to complete the time series.
INSTRUMENT SPECIFICATIONS:
Temperature (degrees Celsius): Measurement Range 21-32; Initial Accuracy +/-0.002, Typical Stability 0.0002 per month, Resolution 0.0001.
Clock Accuracy: 5 seconds per month.
Subsurface temperature recorders were deployed in 2012 at 10 sites in Timor-Leste; however, STRs were only recovered from 8 of the 10 sites in 2014.
All data gathered are conceptually consistent with the given methodology.
The data is quality controlled by CREP personnel after the data is downloaded from the instrument, and again by CREP data management when the data are migrated to the Oracle database.
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
NCEI-MD
Unknown
The data is captured in several locations: files stored on a laptop and backed up to an external drive by the user during the mission, and on the PIFSC network post mission before the data are imported into the PIFSC Oracle database. The PIFSC network and Oracle database are maintained and regularly backed up by PIFSC ITS.
Water temperature data are collected using high-accuracy subsurface temperature recorders (STRs) made by SeaBird Electronics (model SBE 39). STRs were deployed on the reef for a period of 2 years at depths ranging from 4-25m at climate sites in Timor-Leste. At a few sites, multiple STRs were deployed along a depth transect (shallow, mid, and deep water depth between 4 and 25 m).
PIFSC. 2017. Interdisciplinary baseline ecosystem assessment surveys to inform ecosystem-based management planning in Timor-Leste: Final Report. NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, PIFSC Special Publication, SP-17-02, 234p.
Organization
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, PIFSC
2017-06-21
https://doi.org/10.7289/V5/SP-PIFSC-17-002
1
STRs are attached to a weighted mounting bracket and then strapped to solid substrate (attached dead coral or rock) at the benthos using cable ties by SCUBA divers. A GPS point is taken at the surface float which is positioned directly above the instrument during the dive. The depth of the instrument is taken by photographing a diver depth gauge next to the serial number of the instrument after installation.
2
Upon recovery, a second waypoint and depth are taken in the same manner as the deployment before cutting the instrument free.
3
Data are downloaded using the SeaBird SeaTerm program (saved as .ASC), and then post-processed using MATLAB (saved as .CDP). Data from when the instrument was turned on but not yet deployed were removed, and data from the period between removal and data download were also removed.
4
Processed data files (.CDP), once quality controlled, are migrated into the PIFSC Oracle database by the CREP data managment team. Data exports are provided via database views (saved queries) in a text-based format.
47070
Entity
Temperature data entities and attributes
46159
Data Set
Assessing cryptic reef diversity of colonizing marine invertebrates using Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) deployed at coral reef sites in Timor-Leste from 2012 to 2014
Cross Reference
46160
Data Set
Benthic images collected at coral reef sites in Timor-Leste from 2012-2014
Cross Reference
46161
Data Set
Benthic percent cover derived from analysis of benthic images collected at coral reef sites in Timor-Leste in 2013 and 2014
Cross Reference
46162
Data Set
Calcification Rates of Crustose Coralline Algae (CCA) Derived from Calcification Accretion Units (CAUs) Deployed at Coral Reef Sites in Timor-Leste from 2012 to 2014
Cross Reference
32998
Data Set
Coral reef fish biomass and benthic cover data from Timor-Leste in June 2013
Cross Reference
25307
Data Set
Depth soundings from a single beam echo sounder collected around the nearshore areas of Timor-Leste in 2012 and 2013
Cross Reference
29128
Data Set
Nearshore Benthic Habitats of Timor-Leste Derived from WorldView-2 Satellite Imagery
Cross Reference
46150
Data Set
Satellite-derived bathymetry for nearshore benthic habitats in Timor-Leste
Cross Reference
46163
Data Set
Water chemistry at coral reef sites in Timor-Leste from discrete surface and bottom water samples collected in 2013 and 2014
Cross Reference
46151
Data Set
WorldView-2 Satellite Image Inventory for Timor-Leste
Cross Reference
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Annette DesRochers
2017-06-02T03:23:32
Lori Luers
2023-11-16T20:38:25
2023-11-16
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
PIFSC
1845 Wasp Blvd.
Honolulu
HI
96818
USA
808-725-5300
http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov
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