Dataset: Rainfall 1996-2018 (submission to L&O)

Name: Annual rainfall between Cabritte Horn and White Point on the south shore of St. John, US Virgin Islands, 1996-2018
Published: 2020-10-28
Keywords: oceans

Cite This Dataset

DOI:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.827806.1

Spatial Extent: N:18.31714 E:-64.7208 S:18.30702 W:-64.73152

Temporal Extent: 1996 - 2018

Project:

RUI-LTREB Renewal: Three decades of coral reef community dynamics in St. John, USVI: 2014-2019 (RUI-LTREB)

Principal Investigator:

Peter J. Edmunds (California State University Northridge, CSUN)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

Version Date:

2020-10-28

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Annual rainfall between Cabritte Horn and White Point on the south shore of St. John, US Virgin Islands, 1996-2018

Abstract:

Annual rainfall between Cabritte Horn and White Point on the south shore of St. John, US Virgin Islands, July and August, 1996-2018, used in the associated mortality and growth analyses.

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Version Date	Archive	Persistent Identifier	Date Assigned
2020-10-28	Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA)	10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.827806.1	2020-11-02

Methods & Sampling

From publication Limnology and Oceanography

Environmental conditions:

Seawater temperature and rainfall were tested for their capacity to account for variation in the dynamics of small corals in the target size range. The rainfall data integrated values between samplings, and it was used to provide a proxy for environmental conditions positively associated with rainfall, including reduced surface light, enhanced seawater turbidity, terrestrial runoff, sedimentation, and nutrients. Rainfall from August 1996 to 2011 was obtained from the Southeastern Regional Climate Centre (http://www.sercc.com), which reports data from a Standard Rain Gauge in Cruz Bay (Station 671980), 7 km west of Great Lameshur Bay. When this record was incomplete, data were obtained from East End (Station 672551, ~ 5 km east of Great Lameshur Bay, 21 of 185 records), or values for missing months were interpolated using a grand mean from all other values for the same month from 1972 to 2011 (16 of 185 records). From 2012 to the present, rainfall was measured using a Standard Rain Gauge deployed on the north shore of St. John (18.356°N, 64.766°W). The gauge was manually recorded and values summed by month. The rainfall over each sampling year was calculated by summing monthly values from August to July of the subsequent year.

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO Processing Notes:
- data extracted to .csv from file "Flor L&O Edmunds 2020 (matrix paper).zip/Data in L&O Paper_21_Oct_2020.xlsx", sheet "rainfall".
- added conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date
- modified parameter names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions

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