Coral Favorability: Non-Managed Conditions: Worst Case Emissions - American Samoa

Description

Many aspects of the environment are outside the control of local or regional resource managers. These conditions may require concerted global action to affect change (e.g., water temperatures) or cannot be controlled at all (e.g., wave power). This layer synthesized spatial information for several non-managed conditions to create a relative score for how favorable a given location is for coral growth and survival. Environmental conditions contributing to this layer included: marine calcite concentration (a proxy for ocean acidification), irradiance (photosynthetically available radiation, or PAR), thermal stress (annual severe bleaching threshold), wave power (per meter of wave front), and proximity to soils eroded by sea level rise. Projections exist for how some of these conditions may change over the next century based on the trajectory of global greenhouse gas emissions. This project explored how the relative favorability of non-managed conditions could change between the present climate scenario and the rest of the 21st century. This layer represents the future climate scenario for a worst case emissions scenario (Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5), in which no action is taken to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Covariation in these conditions was accounted for using principal component analysis (PCA) to form composite variables of conditions that have strong relationships with one another. The resulting principal components were averaged and scaled from 0 (worst) to 1 (best) to produce the coral favorability score for non-managed conditions. These data are provided as a raster with a resolution of 500 m for American Samoa, including Tutuila and the Manua Islands (Ofu, Olosega, and Tau).

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52 Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service - Cached (WMS-C). Use of WMS-C is similar to traditional WMS but with the addition of the "tiled=true" parameter, which triggers GeoServer to pull map tiles from GeoWebCache if they have been previously generated. This can dramatically improve performance, especially for larger datasets. Supported map formats include JPEG and PNG. Supported info formats include GeoJSON, GML, HTML, and plain text. http://geo.pacioos.hawaii.edu/geoserver/PACIOOS/gwc/service/wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.1&request=GetCapabilities&tiled=true
0 This URL provides access to this dataset via GeoServer, including multiple output formats and an OpenLayers viewer. http://geo.pacioos.hawaii.edu/geoserver/
0 This URL provides a viewer for this dataset. http://geo.pacioos.hawaii.edu/geoexplorer/
0 https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/monica-m-moritsch
0 https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/monica-m-moritsch
27 http://pacioos.org
0 https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/monica-m-moritsch
0 https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/monica-m-moritsch
27 http://pacioos.org
0 https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/monica-m-moritsch
27 http://pacioos.org
50 Open Geospatial Consortium Web Coverage Service (WCS). Supported WCS versions include 1.0.0, 1.1.0, and 1.1.1. Supported output formats include GeoTIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, or TIFF. http://geo.pacioos.hawaii.edu/geoserver/PACIOOS/as_usgs_tutma_coralscore_nonmgt_rcp85/ows?service=WCS&version=1.0.0&request=GetCapabilities
0 This URL provides a viewer and/or data access for this dataset. http://pacioos.org/projects/coral-resilience-guam-amsam/
0 Provides the documentation and data download in GeoTIFF format for the official release of this dataset. https://doi.org/10.5066/P9N32V3M
0 https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/monica-m-moritsch
27 http://pacioos.org
0 https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/monica-m-moritsch
27 http://pacioos.org
0 https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/monica-m-moritsch
27 http://pacioos.org
52 Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service (WMS). Supported WMS versions include 1.1.1 and 1.3.0. Supported map formats include AtomPub, GeoRSS, GeoTIFF, GIF, JPEG, KML/KMZ, PDF, PNG, SVG, and TIFF. Supported info formats include GeoJSON, GeoJSON-P, GML, HTML, and plain text. http://geo.pacioos.hawaii.edu/geoserver/PACIOOS/as_usgs_tutma_coralscore_nonmgt_rcp85/ows?service=WMS&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities
27 http://pacioos.org
0 https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/monica-m-moritsch
0 Provides the documentation and data download in GeoTIFF format for the official release of this dataset. https://doi.org/10.5066/P9N32V3M
0 This URL provides a viewer and/or data access for this dataset. http://pacioos.org/projects/coral-resilience-guam-amsam/
50 Open Geospatial Consortium Web Coverage Service (WCS). Supported WCS versions include 1.0.0, 1.1.0, and 1.1.1. Supported output formats include GeoTIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, or TIFF. https://geo.pacioos.hawaii.edu/geoserver/PACIOOS/as_usgs_tutma_coralscore_nonmgt_rcp85/ows?service=WCS&version=1.0.0&request=GetCapabilities
0 This URL provides access to this dataset via GeoServer, including multiple output formats and an OpenLayers viewer. https://geo.pacioos.hawaii.edu/geoserver/
52 Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service (WMS). Supported WMS versions include 1.1.1 and 1.3.0. Supported map formats include AtomPub, GeoRSS, GeoTIFF, GIF, JPEG, KML/KMZ, PDF, PNG, SVG, and TIFF. Supported info formats include GeoJSON, GeoJSON-P, GML, HTML, and plain text. https://geo.pacioos.hawaii.edu/geoserver/PACIOOS/as_usgs_tutma_coralscore_nonmgt_rcp85/ows?service=WMS&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities

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  • human dimensions
  • manua
  • coral reef
  • ecosystems
  • human settlements
  • biosphere
  • oceans
  • pacioos
  • coral reef assessment
  • american samoa
  • tutuila
  • coastal areas
  • coupled climate models
  • pacific islands ocean observing system
  • marine ecosystems
  • earth science services
  • olosega
  • conservation
  • earth science
  • environmental impacts
  • aquatic ecosystems
  • ofu
  • ocean
  • environmental sustainability
  • polynesia
  • reef habitat
  • models
  • coastal processes
  • reef
  • coral reefs
  • pacific ocean
  • tau
  • sustainability
  • south pacific ocean

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