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Technical Documentation, State of the Ecosystem Report

37 Transition Dates

Description: Sea surface temperature transition dates

Indicator category: Extensive analysis

Found in: State of the Ecosystem - New England (2023), State of the Ecosystem - Mid-Atlantic (2023)

Contributor(s): Kevin Friedland

Data steward: Kimberly Bastille

Point of contact: Kimberly Bastille

Public availability statement: Data is publically available.

37.1 Methods

37.1.1 Data sources

Data comes from NOAA’s high resolution blended analysis of daily sea surface temperature on a 1/4 degree grid and is available online at Physical Science Labratory.

37.1.2 Data analysis

Analysis was recreated from Kevin D. Friedland et al. (2015).

37.1.3 Data Processing

The Transiton Date indicator was formatted for inclusion in the ecodata R package with the code found here.

catalog link https://noaa-edab.github.io/catalog/trans_dates.html

References

Friedland, Kevin D., Robert T. Leaf, Joe Kane, Desiree Tommasi, Rebecca G. Asch, Nathan Rebuck, Rubao Ji, Scott I. Large, Charles Stock, and Vincent S. Saba. 2015. “Spring Bloom Dynamics and Zooplankton Biomass Response on the US Northeast Continental Shelf.” Continental Shelf Research 102: 47–61. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2015.04.005.