Physical, chemical, and biological water quality monitoring data to support detection of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in western Lake Erie, collected by the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory and the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research since 2012

Description

Blooms of nuisance and toxic cyanobacteria, referred to as cyanobacteria harmful algal blooms (cHABs), occur annually in Lake Erie and pose a threat to human health, affect the quality of life, and significantly degrade the ecosystem. NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory and the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR), University of Michigan, started regular water quality monitoring of the western basin of Lake Erie in 2012. Since that time the monitoring effort has expanded to incorporate additional parameters and sample locations. Physical, chemical, and biological water quality data were collected during repeated weekly sampling trips to a set of stations before, during, and after HAB events (from May - October). Data for these discrete sampling events include: wind speed, wave height, secchi depth, sample temperature, Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) Sonde temperature, CTD specific conductivity, CTD beam attenuation, CTD transmission, CTD dissolved oxygen, CTD photosynthetically active radiation, turbidity, particulate microcystin, dissolved microcystin, extracted phycocyanin, extracted chlorophyll-a, total phosphorus, total dissolved phosphorus, soluble reactive phosphorus, ammonia, nitrate + nitrite, urea, particulate organic carbon, particulate organic nitrogen, dissolved organic carbon, colored dissolved organic material absorbance at 400 nm, total suspended solids, and volatile suspended solids. The bulk water quality parameters were analyzed via established techniques and procedures for routine water quality monitoring and analysis (APHA 1992, 1998, 2017). In 2014, CIGLR deployed moored buoys to collect real-time physical, chemical, and biological water quality data during the summer season. There are now four moored buoys deployed during the open water season in western Lake Erie that collect in situ data for the following parameters, average wind speed, maximum wind speed, air temperature, barometric pressure, depth, water temperature, specific conductivity, pH, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll-a, phycocyanin, dissolved organic matter, nitrate, and phosphate.

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Name Format Description Link
0 Institution web page http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://ciglr.seas.umich.edu/
0 Institution web page http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://doi.org/10.25921/11da-3x54
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Institution web page http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/
0 GLERL Data Access https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/HABs_and_Hypoxia/rtMonSQL.php
0 Institution web page http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/
0 NOAA Manual: QARTOD Dissolved Nutrients https://doi.org/10.7289/V5TT4P7R
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 17. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Institution web page http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 17. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 17. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 17. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Search for data granules belonging to this collection (a granule is the smallest aggregation of data that can be independently described and retrieved). https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/granule/geoportal/?from=0&size=10&esdsl=%7B%22query%22%3A%7B%22bool%22%3A%7B%22must%22%3A%5B%7B%22query_string%22%3A%7B%22analyze_wildcard%22%3Atrue%2C%22query%22%3A%22fileid%3AGLERL-CIGLR-HAB-LakeErie-water-qual.*%22%7D%7D%5D%7D%7D%7D#searchPanel
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 17. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Institution web page https://library.noaa.gov/

Tags

  • organic dissolved oxygen
  • moored buoy
  • particulate mycrocystin
  • soluble reactive phosphorus
  • great lakes restoration initiative
  • turner designs 10-au fluorometer
  • volatile suspended solids
  • total suspended solids
  • airmar ws-200wx
  • turner designs aquafluor 8000-010
  • shimadzu toc-5000 total organic carbon analyzer
  • turner c6
  • specific conductivity
  • n/a
  • us environmental protection agency
  • wind speed - maximum
  • oceanography
  • phycocyanin
  • hach 2100an turbidimeter
  • carlo-erba model 1110 chn elemental analyzer
  • beam attenuation
  • seal quaatro or seal aa3
  • extracted phycocyanin
  • small boat
  • seabird/wetlabs cyclep
  • fluorescent dissolved organic matter
  • dissolved microcystin
  • colored dissolved organic material absorbance at 400 nm
  • sample depth
  • lake erie
  • chlorophyll a - extracted
  • organic dissolved oxygen saturation
  • nitrate + nitrite content
  • abraxis elisa kit
  • sbe 19plus v2 seacat profiler ctd
  • ysi exo2
  • phycoerythrin
  • colored dissolved organic material absorbance at 400nm
  • perkin elmer uv/vis spectrophotometer lambda 35
  • total dissolved phosphorus
  • particulate microcystin
  • sample depth (category)
  • colored dissolved organic matter

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