Description
The Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) of OAR is conducting research on the influence of meteorological and oceanographic factors upon coral bleaching, and other biogeochemical processes occurring on coral reefs. Instrument arrays to measure the various environmental influences are being deployed at key coral reef areas to gain long-term temporally intensive data coverage, to provide near real-time information products, and to surface-truth NOAA satellite sea surface temperature (SST) products used for coral bleaching predictions ("HotSpot" products). OAR has developed expert system software plus the instrument array (together called an Integrated Coral Observing Network, or ICON, station) to screen data in near real-time to test for appropriate data ranges for each of the instruments, and to issue "alerts" as to conditions thought to be conducive to coral bleaching, and other modeled events. At each ICON station, local collaborators also provide feedback on the presence and progress of coral bleaching and thus validate coral bleaching predictions made by satellite HotSpots and ICON information products.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Resource | Unknown | Open resource | |
| Web Resource | Unknown | Open resource | |
| MS Excel File | XLS | icon-ccmi2-2014-data.xlsx | Open resource |
| MS Excel File | XLS | icon-ccmi2-2014-data.xlsx | Open resource |
Tags
- 889
- air temperature
- atlantic ocean
- atmosphere
- atmospheric pressure
- atmospheric temperature
- atmospheric water vapor
- atmospheric winds
- biosphere
- bloody bay ( jackson point ) (19n080w0002)
- bloody bay marine park
- bloody bay marine park (19n080w0005)
- caribbean sea
- cayman islands
- c-man
- conductivity
- coral
- coral reef
- corals
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- crews
- crews (coral reef early warning system)
- earth science
- humidity
- icon
- in situ meteorological
- in situ physical
- little cayman
- meteorology
- north atlantic ocean
- numeric data sets
- ocean basin
- oceanography
- ocean optics
- ocean pressure
- oceans
- ocean temperature
- photosynthetically active radiation
- physical oceanography
- precipitation
- precipitation amount
- radiation budget
- rain
- reef
- reef monitoring and assessment
- remote sensing
- salinity
- salinity/density
- sea level pressure
- solar irradiance
- support for a caribbean extension of the coral reef early warning system (crews) network
- surface winds
- ultraviolet radiation
- water temperature
- zoology