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Coastal turbidity on the Southeast Florida Shelf - Monitoring turbid water sources and fates by satellite in the Palm Beach renourishment project region of interest (SECREMP_PB2) from 2002-07-04 to 2018-03-21 (NCEI Accession 0173407)

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This dataset contains relative turbidity data and environmental correlates (modeled wave height) for the Southeast Florida Shelf from 2002 to 2018 in the Palm Beach renourishment project region of interest (SECREMP_PB2). These data are in gridded netCDF binary format - Hierarchical Data Format (version 5), NETCDF4 CLASSIC_MODEL.

Dataset Citation

Cite as: Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies; Gramer, Lewis J.; Hu, Chuanmin; Barnes, Brian; Stamates, S. Jack; Carsey, Thomas P.; Amornthammarong, Natchanon; Hendee, James C. (2018). Coastal turbidity on the Southeast Florida Shelf - Monitoring turbid water sources and fates by satellite in the Palm Beach renourishment project region of interest (SECREMP_PB2) from 2002-07-04 to 2018-03-21 (NCEI Accession 0173407). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0173407. Accessed [date].

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gov.noaa.nodc:0173407

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Time Period	2002-07-04 to 2018-03-21
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates	West: -80.0769 East: -79.9585 South: 26.5102 North: 26.847
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General Documentation	NCEI Dataset Landing Page Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. Descriptive Information Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links.
Associated Resources	Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) CIMAS Web Page Coastal Turbidity on the Southeast Florida Shelf: Monitoring turbid water sources and fates by satellite Coastal Turbidity on the Southeast Florida Shelf: Monitoring turbid water sources and fates by satellite (download) Technical Memorandum

Publication Dates	publication: 2018-06-15
Data Presentation Form	Digital table - digital representation of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns
Dataset Progress Status	Complete - production of the data has been completed Historical archive - data has been stored in an offline storage facility
Data Update Frequency	As needed
Supplemental Information	Submission Package ID: CNH5AK
Purpose	Turbidity can have a significant impact on coral reef ecosystems, through light limitation, sedimentation, and eutrophication (e.g., Bessell-Browne et al. 2017). Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection (FDEP) made as a priority in their 2004 Local Action Strategy (LAS; FDEP 2004), to determine the tracks and fates of turbidity in the waters of the northern Florida reef tract (FRT). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coral Reef Conservation Program (NOAA - CRCP) funded a collaborative project in 2013-2015 (Project #881), to help meet this priority. Potential sources of turbidity described in the literature include natural sediment resuspension due to wind and waves (e.g., Storlazzi and Jaffe 2008), tidal runoff and coastal inlets and oceanic wastewater outfalls (Staley et al. 2017), and other human activities such as dredging (e.g., Wang and Beck 2017). Because of the complexity both of potential sources and of coastal circulation and mixing patterns, in situ monitoring of turbidity and associated sedimentation is challenging (e.g., Whinney et al. 2017). Using satellite remote sensing to monitor coastal turbidity has a variety of potential advantages (e.g., Hu et al. 2012). NOAA CRCP Project #881 was funded to provide managers with historical maps of turbidity, and alerts and maps for near real-time tracking of turbidity plumes, in coastal waters of three CRCP priority jurisdictions: American Samoa (including Faga'alu), CNMI, and south Florida (including reefs offshore of projects for port/tunnel expansion and beach refurbishment in three Counties). Academic partners (USF) in collaboration with AOML began back-processing and analyzing remote-sensing data in 2013 to produce maps of "relative turbidity", an indicator of change in available light, for the three target regions. These relative turbidity or "Color Index" (CI) maps are gathered via MODIS ocean color instruments on two polar-orbiting satellites at 250 m spatial resolution. Maps have been produced for analysis from July 2002 to the present, and new maps are made available to management partners in all three jurisdictions in near real-time via public Web site.
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Dataset Citation	Cite as: Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies; Gramer, Lewis J.; Hu, Chuanmin; Barnes, Brian; Stamates, S. Jack; Carsey, Thomas P.; Amornthammarong, Natchanon; Hendee, James C. (2018). Coastal turbidity on the Southeast Florida Shelf - Monitoring turbid water sources and fates by satellite in the Palm Beach renourishment project region of interest (SECREMP_PB2) from 2002-07-04 to 2018-03-21 (NCEI Accession 0173407). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0173407. Accessed [date].
Cited Authors	Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies Gramer, Lewis J. NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory Hu, Chuanmin Barnes, Brian Stamates, S. Jack Carsey, Thomas P. Amornthammarong, Natchanon Hendee, James C. NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Principal Investigators	Lewis J. Gramer Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS)
Collaborators	Brian Barnes University of South Florida - St. Petersburg Jack Stamates US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
Contributors	University of South Florida - St. Petersburg US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
Resource Providers	Lewis J. Gramer US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
Publishers	NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Acknowledgments	Related Funding Agency: NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program

Theme keywords	NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS BATHYMETRY turbidity WAVE HEIGHT - SIGNIFICANT NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS model output satellite data WMO_CategoryCode oceanography CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus Numeric Data Sets > Bathymetry Numeric Data Sets > Water Quality CoRIS Theme Thesaurus EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Surface Winds EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Bathymetry EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Optics > Turbidity EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Waves > Wave Height EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Waves > Wind Waves Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > BATHYMETRY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > TURBIDITY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE HEIGHT
Data Center keywords	NODC COLLECTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS University of South Florida - St. Petersburg US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory NODC SUBMITTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS US DOC; NOAA; OAR; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory Contributing Data Centers AOML Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords DOC/NOAA/OAR/AOML > Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Platform keywords	NODC PLATFORM NAMES THESAURUS Aqua Terra Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Platform Keywords Aqua > Earth Observing System, Aqua Terra > Earth Observing System, Terra (AM-1) ICES/SeaDataNet Ship Codes Aqua (ICES code: 33V4, 2002-2016) Terra (ICES code: 33XX, 1999-2016) Provider Platform Keywords NOAA C-MAN Station FWYF1 station NOAA Wave Watch III Atlantic 4-arcminute
Instrument keywords	NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS MODIS Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Instrument Keywords MODIS > Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Provider Instruments NGDC DEM 30-m NOAA C-MAN Station FWYF1 station NOAA Wave Watch III Atlantic 4-arcminute
Place keywords	NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS Coastal Waters of Florida North Atlantic Ocean CoRIS Place Thesaurus COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Florida COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Florida > Palm Beach County > Palm Beach (26N080W0008) OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > North Atlantic Ocean > Florida OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > North Atlantic Ocean > Florida Reef Tract > Palm Beach (26N080W0008) Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN Provider Place Names Florida reef tract Palm Beach County, Florida Southeast Florida shelf
Project keywords	NODC PROJECT NAMES THESAURUS Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) CORAL REEF STUDIES CRCP Project 881 Sediment on reefs and adjacent coastal areas: information tools for managers in American Samoa, South Florida, CNMI
Keywords	NCEI ACCESSION NUMBER 0173407

Use Constraints	Cite as: Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies; Gramer, Lewis J.; Hu, Chuanmin; Barnes, Brian; Stamates, S. Jack; Carsey, Thomas P.; Amornthammarong, Natchanon; Hendee, James C. (2018). Coastal turbidity on the Southeast Florida Shelf - Monitoring turbid water sources and fates by satellite in the Palm Beach renourishment project region of interest (SECREMP_PB2) from 2002-07-04 to 2018-03-21 (NCEI Accession 0173407). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0173407. Accessed [date].
Access Constraints	Use liability: NOAA and NCEI cannot provide any warranty as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of furnished data. Users assume responsibility to determine the usability of these data. The user is responsible for the results of any application of this data for other than its intended purpose.
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Processing Steps	2018-06-15T19:28:48Z - NCEI Accession 0173407 v1.1 was published.
Output Datasets	NCEI Accession 0173407 v1.1 NCEI Accession 0173407 v1.1 (download) published 2018-06-15T19:28:48Z

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Processing Steps	Data Type: WATER COLOR (calculated); Units: Index; Observation Type: satellite; Sampling Instrument: MODIS; Sampling and Analyzing Method: Hu C (2017) University of South Florida - Optical Oceanography Lab (OOL), http://optics.marine.usf.edu/; Data Quality Information: See above Data Type: WAVE HEIGHT - SIGNIFICANT (calculated); Units: m; Observation Type: model output; Sampling Instrument: NOAA Wave Watch III Atlantic 4-arcmin; Sampling and Analyzing Method: Attenuation from 20 to 0 m using NOAA 30-m horizontal resolution bathymetry (see accompanying data type), using method similar to Hardy et al. (1990).; Data Quality Information: NWIII: Campos RM, Soares CG (2016) Comparison and assessment of three wave hindcasts in the North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Operational Oceanography 9:26-4. Attenuation: Gramer (2013). Data Type: BATHYMETRY (calculated); Units: m; Observation Type: model output; Sampling Instrument: NGDC DEM 30-m; Sampling and Analyzing Method: Southern Florida, FL (F010) Bathymetric Digital Elevation Model (30 meter resolution) Derived From Source Hydrographic Survey Soundings Collected by NOAA; Data Quality Information: See: http://estuarinebathymetry.noaa.gov Data Type: WIND SPEED (measured); Units: kts; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: C-MAN FWYF1 station; Sampling and Analyzing Method: See http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov; Data Quality Information: See http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov

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Processing Steps

Data Type: WATER COLOR (calculated); Units: Index; Observation Type: satellite; Sampling Instrument: MODIS; Sampling and Analyzing Method: Hu C (2017) University of South Florida - Optical Oceanography Lab (OOL), http://optics.marine.usf.edu/; Data Quality Information: See above
Data Type: WAVE HEIGHT - SIGNIFICANT (calculated); Units: m; Observation Type: model output; Sampling Instrument: NOAA Wave Watch III Atlantic 4-arcmin; Sampling and Analyzing Method: Attenuation from 20 to 0 m using NOAA 30-m horizontal resolution bathymetry (see accompanying data type), using method similar to Hardy et al. (1990).; Data Quality Information: NWIII: Campos RM, Soares CG (2016) Comparison and assessment of three wave hindcasts in the North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Operational Oceanography 9:26-4. Attenuation: Gramer (2013).
Data Type: BATHYMETRY (calculated); Units: m; Observation Type: model output; Sampling Instrument: NGDC DEM 30-m; Sampling and Analyzing Method: Southern Florida, FL (F010) Bathymetric Digital Elevation Model (30 meter resolution) Derived From Source Hydrographic Survey Soundings Collected by NOAA; Data Quality Information: See: http://estuarinebathymetry.noaa.gov
Data Type: WIND SPEED (measured); Units: kts; Observation Type: in situ; Sampling Instrument: C-MAN FWYF1 station; Sampling and Analyzing Method: See http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov; Data Quality Information: See http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov

Acquisition Information (collection)
Instrument	MODIS
Platform	Aqua Terra

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Coastal turbidity on the Southeast Florida Shelf - Monitoring turbid water sources and fates by satellite in the Palm Beach renourishment project region of interest (SECREMP_PB2) from 2002-07-04 to 2018-03-21 (NCEI Accession 0173407)

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