MPA OOS Project: Annual and monthly means of oceanographic, climatological, and ecological variables for California MPAs from 1996-2020

Data in this collection include annual and monthly summaries of oceanographic and climatological variables, as well as ecological monitoring variables, for 155 California MPAs, 4 California bioregions, and MPAs aggregated by bioregion. Oceanographic and climatological variables (sea surface temperature, turbidity, net primary productivity, wave height, wave power, wind speed, surface and bottom aragonite concentrations, upwelling indices) were extracted from publicly available gridded spatial datasets by spatially masking and aggregating data using polygon shapefiles of each area of interest. Ecological variables were obtained from long-term monitoring datasets collected by multiple research groups. This submission includes 2 data tables: (1) dataone_annual_mean_table.csv which contains annual mean values of oceanographic and climatological values, as well as ecological monitoring variables, for 155 California MPAs (2) dataone_monthly_mean_table.csv which contains monthly mean values of oceanographic and climatological values for 155 California MPAs The boundaries for the MPAs referenced in this dataset and information on related long-term California MPA monitoring efforts can be found here: https://opc.dataone.org/view/doi:10.25494/P6V884