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Diel seawater carbonate chemistry observations from a suite of instrumentation deployed at coral reef sites in Batangas, Philippines from 2015-05-21 to 2015-05-31 (NCEI Accession 0189727)

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The data provided in this data set are from diel surveys conducted by the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD)---formerly the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division---in the Philippines from May 21-31, 2015. The ocean acidification diel suite is an autonomous instrument package that measures diel variability in coral reef seawater carbonate chemistry. These diel suites were deployed on hard-bottom shallow-water (< 15 m) habitats at fixed climate survey sites located within coral reef ecosystems.

The diel suites were deployed on the reef for at least 24 hours to measure in-situ salinity, temperature, pressure, pH, current direction and magnitude, and dissolved oxygen. Seawater samples were also collected for laboratory analyses of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and total alkalinity (TA). Components of the carbonate system--including pH, pCO2 (partial pressure of carbon dioxide), and aragonite saturation state--are calculated from DIC, TA, temperature, salinity and pressure. Each diel suite consisted of: 1 SBE-19plus CTD sensor, 1 Nortek Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), 1 Satlantic SeaFET Ocean pH sensor, 1 SBE-43 oxygen sensor co-located with the CTD, and up to 9 Programmable Underwater Collectors (PUCs), each of which collected 1 water sample at 4-hour intervals. Instruments deployed, samples collected, and sample intervals are recorded in the meta file enclosed with the data package.
  • Cite as: Ecosystem Sciences Division, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (2019). Diel seawater carbonate chemistry observations from a suite of instrumentation deployed at coral reef sites in Batangas, Philippines from 2015-05-21 to 2015-05-31 (NCEI Accession 0189727). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0189727. Accessed [date].
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Time Period 2015-05-21 to 2015-05-31
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates
West: 120.884
East: 120.895
South: 13.659
North: 13.728
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Publication Dates
  • publication: 2019-06-20
  • revision: 2021-09-10
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: WU3UR2

In this accession, NCEI has archived multiple versions of these data. The latest (and best) version of these data has the largest version number.
Purpose ESD's manual seawater sampling and other field monitoring efforts are limited to daylight hour operations. As a result, these data sets do not capture full 24-hour variability in coral reef physical and chemical environments. The ocean acidification diel suite was developed to increase the temporal resolution and coverage of oceanographic and carbonate chemistry measurements and contextualize daytime sampling within the full diel cycle. The Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) at NOAA Fisheries is conducting in-situ climate monitoring across the U.S. Pacific Islands Region. Climate monitoring provides a comprehensive view of climate change impacts on coral reef ecosystems and helps identify areas of resilience and vulnerability. The key indicators used to identify and monitor climate-driven trends include 1) thermal stress caused by changes in sea temperature, 2) ocean acidification resulting from changes in carbonate chemistry, and 3) ecological impacts by collecting data on coral growth rates and community structure to understand the impacts of thermal stress and ocean acidification on the ecosystem. This particular dataset for the Philippines is part of a 3-year project ("Climate, Biodiversity and Fisheries in the Coral Triangle: Embracing the E in Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries Management") implemented by ESD. This project was funded by NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Regional Development Mission Asia (RDMA) as part of the U.S. Coral Triangle Initiative, with additional support from the Coral Triangle Support Partnership and USAID Philippines. The goal of the project was to build on ESD's expertise to provide tools and information about climate change, ocean acidification, and their impacts on biodiversity and fisheries that could inform and be incorporated into an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM) for the Philippines. ESD worked with local governments, communities, and NGOs to build science capacity by establishing robust observing capabilities and providing hands-on training to initiate collection of climate science information for the Verde Island Passage in the Philippines that can be used toward adaptive EAFM. ESD traveled to the Verde Island Passage region of the Philippines in 2012 to deploy moored oceanographic (subsurface temperature recorders [STRs]) and ecological (calcification accretion units [CAUs] and autonomous reef monitoring structures [ARMS]) instrumentation, to collect surface and bottom water samples, and to conduct benthic photo-quadrat surveys, which included the collection of benthic images; in 2013 to collect additional water samples; and again in 2015 to recover the instrumentation and to collect another round of water samples and benthic images and to conduct diel surveys. All activities were conducted by SCUBA divers at five locations in the municipalities of Mabini and Tingloy, including Batong Buhay, Koala Reserve Area, Arthur's Reef, Twin Rocks, and Batalang Bato. At each of the five locations, a shallow and deep survey site was established for a total of 10 survey sites.
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Dataset Citation
  • Cite as: Ecosystem Sciences Division, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (2019). Diel seawater carbonate chemistry observations from a suite of instrumentation deployed at coral reef sites in Batangas, Philippines from 2015-05-21 to 2015-05-31 (NCEI Accession 0189727). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0189727. Accessed [date].
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  • Related Funding Agency: NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program
  • Related Funding Agency: US DOS; United States Agency for International Development
Theme keywords NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS WMO_CategoryCode
  • oceanography
CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus
  • Numeric Data Sets > Chemistry
  • Numeric Data Sets > Oceanography
CoRIS Theme Thesaurus
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Reef Habitat
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Baseline studies
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > In Situ Chemical
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > In Situ Physical
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Alkalinity
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Calcification
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Carbon Dioxide > Partial Pressure
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Carbonate Chemistry
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Chemistry Monitoring and Assessment
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Climate Change
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Dissolution
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Dissolved Gases
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Dissolved Inorganic Carbon
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Ocean Acidification
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Saturation State
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > pH
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Circulation
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Circulation > Water Current Direction
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Sea Surface Temperature
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Water Temperature
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Water Temperature > Bottom
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Salinity/Density > Conductivity
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Salinity/Density > Density
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Salinity/Density > Salinity
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Water Velocity
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords Provider Keywords
  • REA
  • Rapid Ecological Assessment
  • diel
Data Center keywords NODC COLLECTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS NODC SUBMITTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS Contributing Data Centers
  • CRED
  • CREP
  • Coral Reef Ecosystem Division
  • Coral Reef Ecosystem Program
  • ESD
  • Ecosystem Sciences Division
  • PIFSC
  • Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords
Instrument keywords NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS Provider Instruments
  • ADCP
  • Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
  • Moored CTD
  • Programmable Underwater Collector (PUC)
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Instrument Keywords
Place keywords NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS CoRIS Place Thesaurus
  • COUNTRY/TERRITORY > Philippines > Batangas > Arthur's Rock (13N120E0002)
  • COUNTRY/TERRITORY > Philippines > Batangas > Mabini (13N120E0032)
  • COUNTRY/TERRITORY > Philippines > Batangas > Tingloy (13N120E0009)
  • COUNTRY/TERRITORY > Philippines > Batangas > Twin Rocks Sanctuary (13N120E0005)
  • OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > South China Sea > Balayan Bay > Arthur's Rock (13N120E0002)
  • OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > South China Sea > Balayan Bay > Mabini (13N120E0032)
  • OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > South China Sea > Balayan Bay > Twin Rocks Sanctuary (13N120E0005)
  • OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > South China Sea > Maricaban Island > Tingloy (13N120E0009)
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords Provider Place Names
  • Arthur's Reef
  • Batalang Bato
  • Batong Buhay
  • Koala Reserve Area
  • Philippines
  • Twin Rocks
  • Verde Island Passage
Project keywords NODC PROJECT NAMES THESAURUS
Keywords NCEI ACCESSION NUMBER
Use Constraints
  • Cite as: Ecosystem Sciences Division, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (2019). Diel seawater carbonate chemistry observations from a suite of instrumentation deployed at coral reef sites in Batangas, Philippines from 2015-05-21 to 2015-05-31 (NCEI Accession 0189727). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0189727. Accessed [date].
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  • 2019-06-20T15:10:23Z - NCEI Accession 0189727 v1.1 was published.
  • 2021-09-10T19:57:13Z - NCEI Accession 0189727 was revised and v2.2 was published.
    Rationale: Updates were received for this dataset. These updates were copied into the data/0-data/ directory of this accession. These updates may provide additional files or replace obsolete files. This version contains the most complete and up-to-date representation of this archival information package. All of the files received prior to this update are available in the preceding version of this accession.
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  • Parameter or Variable: WATER TEMPERATURE (measured); Units: degrees Celsius; Observation Category: in situ; Sampling Instrument: CTD - moored CTD; Sampling and Analyzing Method: CTD data were collected by a Sea Bird Electronics 19plus v2 SeaCAT at 10-min intervals.; Data Quality Method: Data are uploaded as HEX files, converted to CNV using SBE Data Processing Software, and converted to CSV using the 'oce' package in R..
  • Parameter or Variable: PRESSURE - WATER [HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE] (measured); Units: decibar; Observation Category: in situ; Sampling Instrument: CTD - moored CTD; Sampling and Analyzing Method: CTD data were collected by a Sea Bird Electronics 19plus v2 SeaCAT at 10-min intervals.; Data Quality Method: Data are uploaded as HEX files, converted to CNV using SBE Data Processing Software, and converted to CSV using the 'oce' package in R..
  • Parameter or Variable: CONDUCTIVITY (measured); Units: Siemens per meter; Observation Category: in situ; Sampling Instrument: CTD - moored CTD; Sampling and Analyzing Method: CTD data were collected by a Sea Bird Electronics 19plus v2 SeaCAT at 10-min intervals.; Data Quality Method: Data are uploaded as HEX files, converted to CNV using SBE Data Processing Software, and converted to CSV using the 'oce' package in R..
  • Parameter or Variable: DEPTH - BOTTOM (calculated); Units: meter; Observation Category: in situ; Sampling Instrument: CTD - moored CTD.
  • Parameter or Variable: SIGMA-T (calculated); Units: kilogram/meter^3; Observation Category: in situ; Sampling Instrument: CTD - moored CTD; Sampling and Analyzing Method: Calculated sigma-t density value, the density of seawater at atmospheric pressure minus 1000..
  • Parameter or Variable: SALINITY - BOTTOM WATER (calculated); Units: practical salinity unit; Observation Category: in situ; Sampling Instrument: CTD - moored CTD.
  • Parameter or Variable: DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON (DIC) (measured); Units: micromole/kilogram; Observation Category: laboratory analysis; Sampling Instrument: programmable underwater collector (PUC); Sampling and Analyzing Method: PUCs are computerized timers attached to a low-power peristaltic pump. An array of PUCs collects water samples at 4-hour intervals over a 24-hour period. Samples are collected underwater in tedlar bags pre-poisoned with mercuric chloride and transferred to glass bottles within a few hours of recovery. Water samples are analyzed for DIC and TA by the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory..
  • Parameter or Variable: ALKALINITY - TOTAL [total alkalinity] (measured); Units: micromole/kilogram; Observation Category: laboratory analysis; Sampling Instrument: programmable underwater collector (PUC); Sampling and Analyzing Method: PUCs are computerized timers attached to a low-power peristaltic pump. An array of PUCs collects water samples at 4-hour intervals over a 24-hour period. Samples are collected underwater in tedlar bags pre-poisoned with mercuric chloride and transferred to glass bottles within a few hours of recovery. Water samples are analyzed for DIC and TA by the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory..
  • Parameter or Variable: pH (calculated); Units: unitless; Observation Category: laboratory analysis; Sampling Instrument: programmable underwater collector (PUC) and moored CTD; Sampling and Analyzing Method: Calculated from measured DIC and TA from PUC water samples, and from temperature, salinity and pressure from the CTD..
  • Parameter or Variable: partial pressure of carbon dioxide - water (calculated); Units: unitless; Observation Category: laboratory analysis; Sampling Instrument: programmable underwater collector (PUC) and moored CTD; Sampling and Analyzing Method: pCO2: Calculated from measured DIC and TA from PUC water samples, and from temperature, salinity and pressure from the CTD..
  • Parameter or Variable: ARAGONITE SATURATION STATE (calculated); Units: unitless; Observation Category: laboratory analysis; Sampling Instrument: programmable underwater collector (PUC) and moored CTD; Sampling and Analyzing Method: Calculated from measured DIC and TA from PUC water samples, and from temperature, salinity and pressure from the CTD..
  • Parameter or Variable: pH (measured); Units: unitless; Observation Category: in situ; Sampling Instrument: pH sensors; Sampling and Analyzing Method: The SeaFET pH measures in-situ pH using a solid state ISFET sensor with an AgCl external reference electrode. The electrode is conditioned in running seawater up to a week prior to deployment and stored in artificial seawater between deployments. pH data are collected in bursts of 30 measurements every 5 minutes. The SeaFET is co-deployed with a CTD. The SeaFET derives pH from both internal and external potentiometric cells, but only external pH is reported.; Data Quality Method: Temperature and salinity values from the CTD time series are used to correct the raw pH time series. SeaFET pH values are compared to pH values calculated from discrete TA and DIC samples collected at the same time and location..
  • Parameter or Variable: CURRENT SPEED (calculated); Units: meters per second; Observation Category: in situ; Sampling Instrument: ADCP; Sampling and Analyzing Method: ADCP measurements were collected at 10-minute intervals and binned by height above the sensor. Each height bin is represented in the data set as the upper limit of the bin height above the sensor on the seafloor (e.g., a 1.4 m bin represents current data collected between 0.4 m and 1.4 m above the ADCP). ADCP data include a blanking region, or a small distance in front of the transducer in which measurements cannot be made, of 0.2-0.4 m. Current data were grouped into 1-m height bins. Raw data downloaded from the ADCP are processed in R using the oce package. XYZ coordinate data are converted to ENU (east-north-up) coordinate system. Current speed is calculated as the square root of the sum of the squared u and v velocities and direction as the arctan(v/u).; Data Quality Method: Data are trimmed to a maximum height bin for each time step using pressure data to remove above-water signal. As a result, NULL values may exist for larger height bins above the surface of the water due to waves and tides..
  • Parameter or Variable: CURRENT DIRECTION (measured); Units: degree; Observation Category: in situ; Sampling Instrument: ADCP; Sampling and Analyzing Method: ADCP measurements were collected at 10-minute intervals and binned by height above the sensor. Each height bin is represented in the data set as the upper limit of the bin height above the sensor on the seafloor (e.g., a 1.4 m bin represents current data collected between 0.4 m and 1.4 m above the ADCP). ADCP data include a blanking region, or a small distance in front of the transducer in which measurements cannot be made, of 0.2-0.4 m. Current data were grouped into 1-m height bins. Raw data downloaded from the ADCP are processed in R using the oce package. XYZ coordinate data are converted to ENU (east-north-up) coordinate system.; Data Quality Method: Data are trimmed to a maximum height bin for each time step using pressure data to remove above-water signal. As a result, NULL values may exist for larger height bins above the surface of the water due to waves and tides..
  • Parameter or Variable: DISSOLVED OXYGEN (measured); Units: milligram/liter; Observation Category: in situ; Sampling Instrument: oxygen meter; Sampling and Analyzing Method: Dissolved oxygen value measured as a concentration of milligrams of dissolved oxygen per liter of water (mg/L) from an SBE-43 oxygen sensor co-located with the CTD..
Acquisition Information (collection)
Instrument
  • ADCP
  • coulometer for DIC measurement
  • CTD - moored CTD
  • oxygen sensor
  • pH sensor
  • titrator
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