SST_San Blas

Sea Surface temperature monitoring at or near the former STRI field station in the San Blas Islands. Status: Inactive Locations: STRI San Blas Station, 9.552572, -78.952256 Gulf of San Blas, 9.550428, -78.946669 Contents: SST_gsah_wt_elect.csv Remote Site, 6m SST_gsbh_wt_elect.csv Remote Site, 21m SST_sbxl_wt_elect.csv Station, 1m Electronic Sea Surface Temperature recorded using Onset Hobo temperature loggers Data represent spot readings at the time stamp. File Structure: Datetime (yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM), Raw Values (C), Curated Values (C), Notes1, Notes2 Notes1 and Notes2 provide Quality Assurance information. Notes1 indicates quality of record. Possible values are: "adjusted" -> Value of datum adjusted or gap filled "bad" -> Datum failed one or more test and should not be used "doubtful" -> Datum suspect and should be used with caution "good" -> Datum accetible "missing" -> Datum missing "nc" -> Datum not yet checked Notes2 indicates the reason that a datum failed or was adjusted. Possible values are: "Calibration" -> Sensor calibration corrected "Persistence" -> Variation of data below expected range "Range" -> Datum outside of 99.9 percentile "Spike" -> Short-term increase or decrease of data significantly outside normal variance range "Gap Fill" -> Data supplied from another source Quality Assurance Proceedures: - Data are loaded into a custom-built program which premits easy visual examination of the data (including simultaneous viewing of rainfall data) - A gap-filling proceedure is carried out to fill small (<= 3 consecutive records) gaps with a simple straight line - Larger gaps (< 24 hours) are filled manually by drawing a curve that best approximates the missing data based on complete, nearby data, as well as precipitation during the gap period. This is obviously subjective, but is believed to provide quite reasonable results. - Data are visually examined for anomalies and are flagged, and adjusted when necessary, as required.