Description
Site - Kure Atoll, NW Hawaiian Islands (28.41858, -178.34333 ) ARGOS ID 21392 Time series data from this mooring provide high resolution sea surface temperature, surface atmospheric pressure, air temperature, compass, direction components of wind velocity(U/V); for the surrounding coral reef ecosystem. Data telemetry also serves to alert researchers to the potential of imminent or ongoing coral reef bleaching or other natural events (hurricanes, storm damage, cooling, etc.) so that additional field observations and data collection efforts can be initiated, if warranted.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Resource | Unknown | Open resource |
Tags
- 1219
- air temperature
- atmosphere
- atmospheric temperature
- atmospheric winds
- biosphere
- central pacific ocean
- coral reef watch-physical and biological monitoring of u.s. pacific islands
- corals
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- earth science
- hawaii
- honolulu
- in situ meteorological
- kure atoll (28n178w0001)
- northwestern hawaiian islands
- northwestern hawaiian islands (28n178w0000)
- numeric data sets
- nwhi
- ocean basin
- ocean circulation
- ocean currents
- oceanography
- ocean optics
- oceans
- ocean temperature
- pacific ocean
- photosynthetically active radiation
- reef monitoring and assessment
- sea surface temperature
- surface winds
- united states of america
- zoology