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Coastal turbidity on the shelf of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) - monitoring turbid water sources and fates by satellite - Tinian Harbor reefs, Tinian (TINP7) (NCEI Accession 0204268)

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Relative turbidity, bathymetry, and environmental correlates (modeled wave height) for CNMI insular shelf - from 2002 to 2017 - Tinian Harbor region of interest (TINP7), southwest coast of Tinian Island. Data are in gridded netCDF binary format - Hierarchical Data Format (version 5), "NETCDF4 CLASSIC_MODEL".
  • Cite as: Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies; Gramer, Lewis J.; Hu, Chuanmin; Barnes, Brian; Hendee, James C. (2019). Coastal turbidity on the shelf of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) - monitoring turbid water sources and fates by satellite - Tinian Harbor reefs, Tinian (TINP7) (NCEI Accession 0204268). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0204268. Accessed [date].
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  • netCDF (Version: netCDF-4 classic model)
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Time Period 2002-07-07 to 2017-05-26
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates
West: 145.5102
East: 145.7288
South: 14.7785
North: 15.1358
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Publication Dates
  • publication: 2019-10-16
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: F65LX3
Purpose Turbidity can have a significant impact on coral reef ecosystems, through light limitation, sedimentation, and eutrophication (e.g., Bessell-Browne et al. 2017). Several U.S. reef jurisdictions have made as a priority (e.g., FDEP 2004 Local Action Strategy), to determine the tracks and fates of turbidity in their waters. 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 (including Saipan, Rota/Talakhaya, and Tinian), 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; Hendee, James C. (2019). Coastal turbidity on the shelf of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) - monitoring turbid water sources and fates by satellite - Tinian Harbor reefs, Tinian (TINP7) (NCEI Accession 0204268). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0204268. Accessed [date].
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  • Related Funding Agency: NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program
Theme keywords NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS NODC OBSERVATION TYPES THESAURUS WMO_CategoryCode
  • oceanography
CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus
  • Geographic Information > Backscatter
  • Geographic Information > Bathymetry
  • Numeric Data Sets > Backscatter
  • 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 Provider Keywords
  • Ecoforecast Alert Intensity
  • NOAA Wave Watch III Equatorial Pacific
Data Center keywords NODC COLLECTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS NODC SUBMITTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS Contributing Data Centers
  • AOML
  • Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords
Platform keywords NODC PLATFORM NAMES THESAURUS Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Platform Keywords ICES/SeaDataNet Ship Codes
Instrument keywords NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Instrument Keywords Provider Instruments
  • EISES Expert System
Place keywords NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS CoRIS Place Thesaurus
  • COUNTRY/TERRITORY > Northern Mariana Islands > Northern Mariana Islands > Northern Mariana Islands ( CNMI ) (18N146E0000)
  • COUNTRY/TERRITORY > Northern Mariana Islands > Tinian > Tinian Island (14N145E0005)
  • OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Western Pacific Ocean > Mariana Archipelago > Northern Mariana Islands ( CNMI ) (18N146E0000)
  • OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Western Pacific Ocean > Tinian Island Reefs > Tinian Island (14N145E0005)
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords Provider Place Names
  • Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
  • Tinian
  • Tinian Harbor Reefs
Project keywords NODC PROJECT NAMES THESAURUS CRCP Project
  • 881
  • Sediment on reefs and adjacent coastal areas: information tools for managers in American Samoa, South Florida, CNMI
Keywords NCEI ACCESSION NUMBER
Use Constraints
  • Cite as: Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies; Gramer, Lewis J.; Hu, Chuanmin; Barnes, Brian; Hendee, James C. (2019). Coastal turbidity on the shelf of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) - monitoring turbid water sources and fates by satellite - Tinian Harbor reefs, Tinian (TINP7) (NCEI Accession 0204268). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0204268. Accessed [date].
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  • 2019-10-16T23:45:48Z - NCEI Accession 0204268 v1.1 was published.
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Processing Steps
  • Parameter or Variable: WATER COLOR (calculated); Units: Index; Observation Category: 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 Method: See above.
  • Parameter or Variable: WAVE HEIGHT - SIGNIFICANT (calculated); Units: m; Observation Category: model output; Sampling Instrument: NOAA Wave Watch III Equatorial Pacific 10-arcmin; Sampling and Analyzing Method: Attenuation from 20 to 0 m using NOAA ~35-m horizontal resolution bathymetry (see accompanying data type), using method similar to Hardy et al. (1990).; Data Quality Method: NWIII: Fan YL, Lin S-J, Held IM, Yu ZT, Tolman HL (2012) Global ocean surface wave simulation using a coupled atmosphere-wave model. J. Climate, 25, 6233-6252, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00621.1. AND: 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); Gramer and Hendee (2019)..
  • Parameter or Variable: BATHYMETRY (calculated); Units: m; Observation Category: model output; Sampling Instrument: NGDC DEM 35-m; Sampling and Analyzing Method: CNMI Bathymetric Digital Elevation Model (~35 meter resolution) Derived From Source Hydrographic Survey Soundings Collected by NOAA, and from UH/NOAA-CRED: Pacific Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping Center; Data Quality Method: See: http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc/cms/benthic-habitat-mapping/.
  • Parameter or Variable: Ecoforecast Alert Intensity (calculated); Units: Index; Observation Category: model output; Sampling Instrument: EISES Expert System; Sampling and Analyzing Method: Stimulus/Response Index (S/RI), calculated as described in Hendee J, Gramer L, Manzello D, Jankulak M (2009) Ecological forecasting for coral reef ecosystems. In Dodge R, ed., Proceedings of the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium, July 7 - 11, 2008, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 534-538.; Data Quality Method: Validation of event dates vs. those derived by other methods, in particular, Barnes BB, Hu CM, Kovach C, Silverstein RN (2015) Sediment plumes induced by the Port of Miami dredging: Analysis and interpretation using Landsat and MODIS data. Remote Sensing of Environment 170:328-339.
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Instrument
  • MODIS
Platform
  • Aqua
  • Terra
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