TIME data sets

This is a historical archive of TIME data from the past several years. No new data is being added on a regular basis, though archived data will be available for the forseeable future. Data for NOAA and USGS stations are no longer available for access on TIME. Check individual NOAA and USGS station pages for new data access URLs. The map on the home page for TIME data is divided into four areas of interest - three wetland regions (R1, R2, R3) and Florida Bay. Selecting an area on this map will lead to a map of that area displaying all the station locations at which water level, rain, discharge, salinity, conductivity, temperature, or wind data are collected. Selecting one of the stations on a area map will lead to a form for plotting and/or downloading the data from that particular station. An alternate means of directly accessing a station's form is by selecting the station name from the list in the frame on the left side of the screen. Note that not all stations are included on the map, but all may be accessed from the station list.

A critical objective of the south Florida ecosystem restoration effort is to preserve ecological conditions that are consistent with habitat requirements. The duration, timing, and extent of wetland inundation in the southern Everglades have been greatly distorted as evidenced by shifts in biologic and vegetative species. Both natural and regulatory factors contribute to influence of hydroperiods making their precise evaluation and management difficult. This complexity is particularly problematic in the transition zone between the Everglades wetlands and coastal embayments encompassing the mangrove ecotone where freshwater inflow effects on salinities must also be considered. In order to correctly and sufficiently investigate flow effects on both hydroperiods and embayment salinities neither hydrologic processes affecting flows in the wetlands nor the dynamic effects of external forces such as tides and winds can be ignored. This project entails translation of findings from the Southern Inland and Coastal Systems (SICS) project and extension of the model westward to resolve boundary limitations and to enable concurrent analysis of wetland and tidal response throughout the entire saltwater-freshwater interface zone along the Gulf coast and Florida Bay. Extension of the SICS model westward will require the addition of continuous monitoring stations to supplement data from coastal creek stations and control structures needed to provide boundary conditions as well as the synoptic measurement of flows and water levels in the wetlands for use in model calibration and verification.