National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

noaa-nodc-crw-oaps

NOAA Ocean Acidification Product Suite, Version 0.6

Version 0.6.

The NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) Experimental Ocean Acidification Product Suite (OAPS) offers an important synthesis of satellite and modeled environmental datasets to provide a synoptic estimate of sea surface carbonate chemistry in the Greater Caribbean Region. This tool compliments geochemical surveys and monitoring efforts in the region by providing estimates of changing ocean chemistry on a broader spatial and temporal scale than shipboard observations alone can permit. The maps presented here are monthly averages of daily estimates derived according to Gledhill et al. (2008). Near-real-time estimates (through Jan 2012) were modeled from daily fields of NOAA OI AVHRR-AMSRE SST, HYCOM + NCODA modeled sea surface salinity (SSS), NOAA NCEP sea-level pressure (SLP), and estimates of atmospheric CO2 derived from the NOAA Global Monitoring Division (GMD) Carbon Cycle Cooperative Global Air Sampling Network flask sample data.

coralreefwatch.noaa.gov

https://data.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.nodc:CRW-OAPS#

Provenance

• 1 image was derived from this dataset : image 5724b480