Temperature, salinity, photosynthetically active radiation and weather parameters at SEAKEYS stations in the Florida Keys, 2007 (NODC Accession 0058101)

This accession contains data collected at several Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) stations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and Florida Bay. These C-MAN stations have been outfitted with additional sensors to collect temperature, salinity and PAR data in addition to the standard sensors for weather related observations. The basic National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) C-MAN instrument package generally monitors meteorological data, such as wind speed and direction, air temperature and barometric pressure, but sea temperature is also measured when possible, at 1 meter deep.

The SEAKEYS program has since 1992 provided hourly data from up to seven meteorological and oceanographic monitoring stations situated throughout the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and Florida Bay. These data are collected and presented via email and the Web daily, and are supplied through a historical database on the Web. Unique software (Environmental Information Synthesizer for Expert Systems -- EISES) developed for SEAKEYS data operates in near real-time and provides alerts as to conditions conducive to natural events such as coral bleaching (Coral Reef Early Warning System -- CREWS), larval conch survival, and in the future, harmful algal blooms. The future will also bring a database with quality controlled data supplied via the Web, as well as new uses for EISES and new capabilities for CREWS.

本数据集收录了佛罗里达礁岛群国家海洋保护区及佛罗里达湾内多个海岸海洋自动观测站（Coastal-Marine Automated Network, C-MAN）采集的观测数据。此类C-MAN站除搭载用于气象观测的标准传感器外，还加装了额外传感器以采集水温、盐度及光合有效辐射（Photosynthetically Active Radiation, PAR）数据。国家数据浮标中心（National Data Buoy Center, NDBC）标配的C-MAN仪器套件通常可监测风速、风向、气温、气压等气象数据，在条件允许时还会在水下1米处测量海表温度。

自1992年起，SEAKEYS项目便为分布于佛罗里达礁岛群国家海洋保护区及佛罗里达湾内的最多7个气象与海洋监测站点提供每小时更新的观测数据。此类数据每日通过电子邮件及网络发布，并可通过网络历史数据库获取。专为SEAKEYS数据开发的专属软件——专家系统环境信息合成器（Environmental Information Synthesizer for Expert Systems, EISES）可实现近乎实时的运行，能够针对珊瑚礁白化（珊瑚礁早期预警系统, CREWS）、幼螺存活等自然事件的适宜发生条件发出预警，未来还将拓展至有害藻华相关预警。此外，项目未来还将上线具备数据质量控制功能的网络数据库，并拓展EISES的应用场景与珊瑚礁早期预警系统的功能。