Data for Coastal Fog and Low Clouds Provide Intertidal Organisms Refugia During Summer Heat

This repository contains data and code relevant to the paperCoastal Fog and Low Clouds Provide Intertidal Organisms Refugia During Summer Heatby Jessica Lundquist, Autumn Nguyen, Steven Pestana, and Eli Schwatcontact person: Jessica Lundquist, University of Washington, [e-mail] to Geophysical Research LettersJuly 29, 2024

Files are as follows:

Paper files (note, these are submitted files, and may be modified in the final published version):Lundquist_GRL_Manuscript_July29.pdf        Manuscript file, main text and figures, submitted July 29, 2024Lundquist_GRL_SuppInfo_July_29.pdf        Supplemental Information file, submitted July 29, 2024

Movie files of timelapse photographs from each of the sites:timeLapseCattlePoint_July_Oct_2022.mp4        Images from Cattle Point site, facing Lopez IslandtimeLapseFHL_facingShaw_July_2022.mp4        Images from Friday Harbor Laboratory (FHL) site, facing Shaw IslandtimeLapseFHL_facingShaw_July_Nov_2022.mp4    Images from Friday Harbor Laboratory (FHL) site, facing Shaw IslandtimeLapseMtDallas_view_2022.mp4            Images from Mt. Dallas site, looking towards the coast, with FHL toward the left of the image, and Cattle Point towards the right of the image.

Temperature data files:SJI_Tdata_site1.nc                 Temperature and relative humidity data from Hobo datalogger at Friday Harbor Laboratories Weather station locationSJI_Tdata_site2.nc                 Temperature and relative humidity data from Hobo datalogger at Mt. Dallas location                SJI_Tdata_site3.nc                 Temperature and relative humidity data from Hobo datalogger at Cattle Point locationSJI_Tdata_site4.nc                Temperature and relative humidity data from Friday Harbor Laboratories Weather Station    FHairportdata.txt                    Raw data from Friday Harbor airport weather station.

Reanalysis data files:SJI_strongInv2022.txt                File of dates used to select days of strong inversion to assess anomalies500mbHtanomalies.205.175.106.80.157.13.39.23.nc        500hPa height anomaly data for Fig 2e mapTanomaly850mbyycompos.205.175.106.80.157.13.47.49.nc    850hPa temperature anomaly data for Fig 2f map

Matlab files for plotting figures in paper(note that Matlab software is not required to read these files)TRH2.mat                    Temperature and relative humidity data from in situ locations for 2022Tides2021_23.mat                Friday Harbor tide hight dataGOESclouds.mat                    Cloud height data for the locations with surface observationsFHairportdata.mat                Temperature data from the Friday Harbor airportLundquist_GRL_FLCC_figurecode.m            Matlab code for using the datafiles above to make all of the figures in the paper