Shore Stations Program Data Archive: Current and historical coastal ocean temperature and salinity measurements from California stations

The Shore Stations Program (https://shorestations.ucsd.edu/) collects and provides access to current and historical daily sea surface temperature (SST) and salinity (SSS) measurements observed at shoreline locations along the west coast of the United States. Historically, stations ranged from the southernmost point at La Jolla, CA, to the northernmost point on the west coast, Neah Bay, WA, located at the entrance to the Straits of Juan de Fuca.

Currently, all 10 active stations are located in California. Data values are processed and published on the website by program staff at UCSD/Scripps Institution of Oceanography as they become available from each site.

This program ranks as one of the world’s longest, continuous ocean time series and the longest on the Pacific Rim. Measurements at La Jolla began in August 1916, with several other stations dating to the 1920’s. These long time series are essential for identifying coastal ocean warming over the past century and determining its role in intensifying marine heat waves, as well as characterizing fluctuations in warming and cooling from seasonal to multi-decadal time scales. This growing data bank provides us with one of the first opportunities to separate natural from anthropogenic changes in our coastal zone.

These warm and cold anomalies, and the long-term warming trend have significant biological effects on plankton production, fish catch, and seabirds, among many other impacts. They also are associated with changes in sea level, wave heights, and beach erosion, and have recently been linked to climate fluctuations over the southwestern U.S.

Station List:
La Jolla, Scripps Pier - https://doi.org/10.6075/J06T0K0M
San Clemente - https://doi.org/10.6075/J0C53KN8
Newport Beach / Balboa Pier - https://doi.org/10.6075/J0GX4BCP
Point Dume / Zuma Beach - https://doi.org/10.6075/J00001XZ
Santa Barbara - https://doi.org/10.6075/J03N236M
Granite Canyon - https://doi.org/10.6075/J0QF8SQD
Pacific Grove - https://doi.org/10.6075/J0V69JF4
Farallon Islands - https://doi.org/10.6075/J0FX798R
Trinidad Beach - https://doi.org/10.6075/J0KP820G
Trinidad Bay - https://doi.org/10.6075/J07D2TXJ

海岸站项目（Shore Stations Program，https://shorestations.ucsd.edu/）收集并开放获取美国西海岸沿岸站点观测的当前及历史每日海表温度（sea surface temperature, SST）与海表盐度（sea surface salinity, SSS）数据。历史上，该项目监测站点的覆盖范围北至位于胡安·德富卡海峡入口处的华盛顿州尼亚湾（Neah Bay），南至加利福尼亚州拉霍亚（La Jolla）。

目前，所有10个在运营站点均位于加利福尼亚州。当各站点获取到观测数据后，由加州大学圣地亚哥分校/斯克里普斯海洋研究所（UCSD/Scripps Institution of Oceanography）的项目工作人员进行数据处理并在项目官网发布。

该项目是全球持续时间最长的海洋时间序列数据集之一，同时也是环太平洋地区最长的此类数据集。拉霍亚站点的观测始于1916年8月，其余多个站点的观测历史可追溯至20世纪20年代。这些长期时间序列数据对于识别过去一个世纪的近岸海洋升温现象、明确其在加剧海洋热浪（marine heat waves）中的作用，以及刻画从季节到年代际尺度的冷暖波动特征均至关重要。这个不断扩充的数据库为我们首次提供了区分近岸海域自然变化与人为变化的重要契机之一。

这些冷暖异常现象与长期升温趋势会对浮游生物生产力、渔业捕捞量以及海鸟种群等诸多方面产生显著的生物学影响。此外，这些现象还与海平面、浪高及海滩侵蚀的变化相关，近期更有研究将其与美国西南部的气候波动联系起来。

站点列表：
拉霍亚，斯克里普斯码头（La Jolla, Scripps Pier）——https://doi.org/10.6075/J06T0K0M
圣克莱门特（San Clemente）——https://doi.org/10.6075/J0C53KN8
新港海滩/巴尔博亚码头（Newport Beach / Balboa Pier）——https://doi.org/10.6075/J0GX4BCP
杜梅角/祖马海滩（Point Dume / Zuma Beach）——https://doi.org/10.6075/J00001XZ
圣巴巴拉（Santa Barbara）——https://doi.org/10.6075/J03N236M
花岗岩峡谷（Granite Canyon）——https://doi.org/10.6075/J0QF8SQD
太平洋丛林（Pacific Grove）——https://doi.org/10.6075/J0V69JF4
法拉隆群岛（Farallon Islands）——https://doi.org/10.6075/J0FX798R
特里尼达德海滩（Trinidad Beach）——https://doi.org/10.6075/J0KP820G
特里尼达德湾（Trinidad Bay）——https://doi.org/10.6075/J07D2TXJ