Description
Site - Rose Island, American Samoa, -14.5514, -168.16018 ARGOS ID 27267 Time series data from this mooring provide high resolution sea surface temperature, surface atmospheric pressure, air temperature, compass, direction component wind velocity U/V; for the surrounding coral reef ecosystem. Data telemetry also serves to alert researchers to the potential of mminent 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
- american samoa
- amsam
- atmosphere
- atmospheric temperature
- atmospheric winds
- biosphere
- coral reef watch-physical and biological monitoring of u.s. pacific islands
- corals
- coris_metadata
- country/territory
- earth science
- in situ meteorological
- numeric data sets
- ocean basin
- oceanography
- oceans
- ocean temperature
- pacific ocean
- reef monitoring and assessment
- rose atoll
- rose island (14s170w0041)
- sea surface temperature
- surface winds
- united states of america
- zoology