Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Kenneth Banks Publication_Date: Unpublished material Title: Broward County Florida Thermographic Data Collected at Twelve Locations along Four Eastward Lines that Cross Three Offshore Reef Tracks during the Time Period July 2000 to the Present using Self-Recording Temperature Gauges Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: spreadsheet Online_Linkage: none Description: Abstract: Broward County Florida has responsibility for the resource management of coral reefs in marine waters adjacent to Broward County. The Department of Planning and Environmental Protection is assigned the duties of monitoring the health of the coral reefs. Environmental stresses are a limiting factor in the biomass and diversity, and maintaining these populations of coral species requires an understanding of the environmental factors. One of these factors is the water temperature. Visual surveys are conducted by divers, and the staff has implemented an environmental monitoring program with water temperature as the first measured parameter. The monitoring program is on a "not to interfere basis" using self-recording thermographs for data acquisition. The thermographs are placed along coral reef tracks located in three separate bands near the northern most extent of the natural range for corals. The raw data are captured from the recorder by means of a laptop computer using transfer and conversion software provided by the instrument's vendor. Upon return to the office, the raw data are transferred to separate files that are then loaded into spreadsheet files. Each spreadsheet file corresponds to a single location and only one instrument. Twelve spreadsheet files are updated every sixty days for the dynamic raw data; the static geographical information is stored in a separate spreadsheet file. Purpose: These data collection efforts support the management and monitoring of coral reefs resources in marine waters adjacent to Broward County, Florida. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 20000701 Ending_Date: Present Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: In Work Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Every Sixty Days Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -80.112007 W East_Bounding_Coordinate: -80.077343 W North_Bounding_Coordinate: 26.159952 N South_Bounding_Coordinate: 26.020458 N Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none Theme_Keyword: Coral Reef Theme_Keyword: Temperature Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: none Place_Keyword: Hollywood Place_Keyword: Ft. Lauderdale Place_Keyword: Fort Lauderdale Place_Keyword: John U Lloyd Beach State Park Place_Keyword: Broward County Place_Keyword: Florida Stratum: Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: none Stratum_Keyword: ocean bottom Stratum_Keyword: sea floor Temporal: Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: none Temporal_Keyword: hourly Temporal_Keyword: historical data Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: None Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Kenneth Banks Contact_Organization: Broward County Department Of Planning and Environmental Protection Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing address Address: 218 S.W. 1st Avenue City: Fort Lauderdale State_or_Province: FL Postal_Code: 33301 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 954-519-1207 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 954-519-1412 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: kbanks@broward.org Security_Information: Security_Classification_System: none Security_Classification: Unclassified Security_Handling_Description: none Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Overview_Description: Entity_and_Attribute_Overview: Data are in twelve spreadsheet files formatted in rows and columns. Each spreadsheet contains three worksheets; (1) Headers, (2) Stats and (3) Data. On the Headers worksheet, data columns are in the following order: LocationID, Start, Recover, Data Source, Recorder ID, Deploy No, State, Span, Interval, Samples, Delay, Trip Average, Trip Std Dev, Window, and Extremes. LocationID = The code that identifies the location of the instrument. Start = The date and time a series of observations began (i.e. dd/mmm/yyyy hh:mm:ss). Recover = The ending date and time for a series of observations (i.e. dd/mmm/yyyy hh:mm:ss). Data Source = The file containing the original data. Recorder ID = serial number of the recorder unit. Deploy No = sequential number indicating the number of times deployed. State = upon recovery of the unit, the status of the recorder at the time of recovery. Span = The range of days and hours of observations. Interval = recorder setting for the sampling rate. Samples = The number of samples obtained during the observation period. Delay = user setting at time of deployment for the delay requested before the recording begins. Trip Average = two entries for the mean value in degrees Celsius and degrees Fahrenheit. Trip Std Dev = the computed value for the standard deviation in degree Celsius and degree Fahrenheit. Window = the dynamic range of the thermometer in degree Fahrenheit and degree Celsius. Extremes = minimum and maximum values measured during the deployment. On the Stats worksheet, the computed values from the next Data worksheet are displayed. The data columns are presented in the following order: LocationID = the code that identifies the location of the instrument, Month/Year = identifies the month and year, TF Avg = average temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, TF Stdev = the computed value of the standard deviation in degrees Fahrenheit, TF Min = minimum temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, TF Max = the maximum temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, TC Avg = average temperature in degrees Celsius, TC Stdev = computed standard deviation in degrees Celsius, TC min = minimum temperature in degrees Celsius, TC max = maximum temperature in degrees Celsius, and N = number of observations used to compute the mean and stadard deviation. On the Data worksheet, data columns are in the following order: LocationID, Date/Time (loc), Temperature (F), Temperature (C). LocationID = The code that identifies the location of the instrument. Date/Time (loc) = The local date and time of the temperature mesurement (i.e. dd/mmm/yyyy hh:mm:ss). Tfarenheit = The temperature of the sea water in degrees Fahrenheit. Tcelsius = The temperature of the sea water in degrees Celsius. A companion spreadsheet file contains the geographic location of each recorder. The fields in the file are in the following order: Name = the code of the location, Description = provides common names by municipality and reef track, Latitude = the decimal degree value of the location, Longitude = the decimal degree value of the location, X = the state plane coordinate in the horizontal orientation, and Y = the state plane coordinate in the vertical orientation. 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