Assessment of heat stress exposure in the wider Caribbean coral reefs through the regional delineation of degree heating week data from 1985-01-01 to 2017-12-31 (NCEI Accession 0205786)

Description

This data package presents a three-decade (1985-2017) assessment of heat stress exposure in the wider Caribbean coral reefs at the ecoregional and local scales. The main heat stress indicator used was the Degree Heating Weeks (DHW) calculated from daily Sea Surface Temperature "CoralTemp" data from CRW-NOAA available from 1985 to the present and from the maximum monthly mean (MMM) version 3.1 at 5 km of the CRW-NOAA program. Different metrics were calculated based on daily DHW and are available in this dataset: a) the maximum value of DHW per pixel for the entire time series b) the frequency of the annual maximum values of DHW ≥ 4 °C- weeks (a predictor of coral "bleaching risk") per pixel c) the frequency of the annual maximum values of DHW ≥ 8 °C- weeks (a predictor of bleach-induced mortality or "mortality risk") per pixel d) the year in which the maximum of DHW occurred e) the trend of the annual maximum values of DHW per pixel. Based on the spatiotemporal annual maximum DHW, a new regionalization of heat stress was performed by cluster analysis with the K-means algorithm through the unsupervised classification, this new regionalization delimits the Caribbean in 8 Heat Stress Regions (HSR). We summarized spatiotemporal daily data to describe the temporal patterns at an ecoregional scale by calculating the descriptive statistics of the regional DHW on a given day. This dataset represents a new baseline and regionalization of heat stress in the wider Caribbean coral reefs that will enhance conservation and planning efforts underway.

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0 Journal Article https://doi.org/10.1641/b570707
0 Journal Article https://doi.org/10.3390/rs61111579
0 Journal Article https://doi.org/10.1029/98jd00995
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0 Coral Reef Watch Website https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/index.php
0 Institution web page https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/index.php
0 Institution web page https://www.noaa.gov/
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0205786
0 Website with dataset download access https://data.unep-wcmc.org/datasets/1
0 Institution web page https://data.unep-wcmc.org/
0 Journal Article https://doi.org/10.1641/b570707
0 Journal Article https://doi.org/10.3390/rs61111579
0 Journal Article https://doi.org/10.1029/98jd00995
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0205786
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/205786
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/download/205786
0 These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/nodc/archive/arc0149/0205786/
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0 Institution web page https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/index.php
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0 Website with dataset download access https://data.unep-wcmc.org/datasets/1
0 Institution web page https://data.unep-wcmc.org/
0 Institution web page https://data.unep-wcmc.org/
0 Journal Article https://doi.org/10.1641/b570707
0 Journal Article https://doi.org/10.3390/rs61111579
0 Journal Article https://doi.org/10.1029/98jd00995
0 Website https://www.mda.cinvestav.mx/Investigaci%C3%B3n/DepartamentodeRecursosdelMar/Laboratorios/Ecolog%C3%ADadeecosistemasdearrecifesycoralinos.aspx
0 Coral Reef Watch Website https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/index.php
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0 Institution web page https://www.si.edu/
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0205786
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/205786
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/download/205786
0 These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/nodc/archive/arc0149/0205786/
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0 Website http://www.healthyreefs.org/cms/
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0 Coral Reef Watch Website https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/index.php
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0 Website with dataset download access https://data.unep-wcmc.org/datasets/1
0 Institution web page https://data.unep-wcmc.org/
0 Institution web page https://data.unep-wcmc.org/
0 Journal Article https://doi.org/10.1641/b570707
0 Journal Article https://doi.org/10.3390/rs61111579
0 Journal Article https://doi.org/10.1029/98jd00995
0 Institution web page http://www.healthyreefs.org/cms/
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0205786
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/205786
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/download/205786
0 These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/nodc/archive/arc0149/0205786/
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0 Website https://www.mda.cinvestav.mx/Investigaci%C3%B3n/DepartamentodeRecursosdelMar/Laboratorios/Ecolog%C3%ADadeecosistemasdearrecifesycoralinos.aspx
0 Institution web page https://www.mda.cinvestav.mx/Investigaci%C3%B3n/DepartamentodeRecursosdelMar/Laboratorios/Ecolog%C3%ADadeecosistemasdearrecifesycoralinos.aspx
0 Website http://www.healthyreefs.org/cms/
0 Institution web page http://www.healthyreefs.org/cms/
0 Institution web page http://www.healthyreefs.org/cms/
0 Institution web page https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/index.php
0 Institution web page https://www.noaa.gov/
0 Website with dataset download access https://data.unep-wcmc.org/datasets/1
0 Institution web page https://data.unep-wcmc.org/
0 Institution web page https://data.unep-wcmc.org/
0 Journal Article https://doi.org/10.1641/b570707
0 Journal Article https://doi.org/10.3390/rs61111579
0 Journal Article https://doi.org/10.1029/98jd00995
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0 Coral Reef Watch Website https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/index.php

Tags

  • bahamas
  • united states of america
  • mexico (20n100w0000)
  • corals
  • satellite sensor
  • sea surface temperature
  • biosphere
  • heat-stress regions
  • puerto rico (18n066w0000)
  • bahamas (24n078w0000)
  • greater antilles
  • degree heating week (dhw)
  • mexico
  • oceanography
  • year in which the maximum dhw occurred
  • median of the regional dhw values on a given day
  • mixed spatial information
  • atlantic ocean
  • gulf of mexico
  • earth science
  • healthy reefs for healthy people (smithsonian institution and mesoamerican reef)
  • annual maximum dhw valye from 1985 to 2017
  • haiti (19n072w0000)
  • maximum dhw value per pixel from 1987 to 2017
  • 2jhfmg
  • cuba
  • dominican republic
  • dominican republic (19n070w0000)
  • climate
  • frequency of annual maximum dh values
  • biodiversided y funcionalidad de los arrecifes coralinos del caribe mexicano
  • coral diseases
  • sea surface temperature (sst)
  • = 8 degree celsius weeks
  • bleaching
  • cuba (22n079w0000)
  • florida reef tract (26n080w0007)
  • florida
  • haiti
  • red oceano
  • ocean basin
  • caribbean sea /north atlantic ocean
  • reef location mask
  • = 4 degree celsius weeks
  • vulnerabilidad ecologica del sistema arrecifal mesoamericano
  • puerto rico
  • zoology
  • north atlantic ocean
  • clima y cambio global
  • geographic information
  • country/territory
  • trend of annual maximum dhw

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