Marine heatwaves within most recent year

Data include daily heatwave anomaly for most recent year.

heatwave_year

Format

Data set contains 3129 rows and 12 columns

• doy: Day of Year.

• t: Date.

• temp: Temperature.

• seas: Climatological Temperature (1982-max year).

• thresh: Climatological threshold indicator anything above is a heatwave.

• threshCriterion: If TRUE then temperature is above the 90th percentile of the long term average.

• durationCriterion: If TRUE the temp has been above threshold for 5 or more days (surface) and 30 or more days (bottom).

• event: If TRUE indicates heatwave event.

• event_no: Heatwave number.

• EPU: Ecological Production Unit (EPU) where sampling occurred.

• Year: Year

• Var: Variable

Details

More information including processing and indicator derivation steps are available at https://noaa-edab.github.io/tech-doc/marine_heatwave.html.