These data describe seawater temperature in Great Lameshur Bay from 1991-2021. They are daily averages from temperature logger measurements made at Yawzi Point, St.John USVI.
Seawater temperature was measured daily for 30 years in Great Lameshur Bay at a depth of ~9 meters. Loggers were located at Yawzi Point, ~900 meters from Cabritte Horn (the location of photoquadrat sampling). The loggers sampled at 0.0011Hz (Onset Computer Corp., HOBO U22-011, ± 0.2°C) or every 15 minutes (Edmunds & Gray, 2014). Records were collapsed by day and used to calculate annual summaries of mean temperature (this dataset), minimum temperature, maximum temperature, the number of hot days (i.e.,>29.3 °C), and the number of cold days (i.e.,≤26.0 °C).
For details on association with Millepora morphology, see Related Datasets section below.
Edmunds, P. J. (2022) Daily seawater temperature at Yawzi Point (St.John USVI) from 1991-2021. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2022-06-15 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.875694.1 [access date]
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