North Pacific Nearshore Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Access Databases 09/1981-12/2009

The Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data of the nearshore region of the North Pacific show temperature ranges in degrees C using points whose locations correspond to the centroids of AVHRR Pathfinder version 5 monthly, global, 4 km data set (PFSST V50). The pathfinder rasters are available from the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC), hosted by NASA JPL. The data points in this dataset lie within a 20 km buffer from the GSHHS (Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline) coastline. The GSHHS vector data are available from the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). Furthermore, each point in the SST dataset is categorized by the ecoregion in which it is located. This...

Categories: Data; Tags: AVHRR, Aleutian, Asian Pacific, BC, Baja, All tags... British Columbia, CA, California, California Current System, Canada, China, East Asia, Gulf of Alaska, Japan, Kamchatka, Korea, Kuroshio, National CASC, North America, North Pacific, OR, Oregon, Oyashio, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast, Russia, SST, Sea of Okhotsk, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Vancouver, WA, Washington, Water, Coasts and Ice, Yellow Sea, average, biota, coast, coast, ecoregion, global, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, marine, mean, ocean, oceans, point, remote sensing, satellite, sea surface, shore, temperature, thermal, Fewer tags

Projecting Future Streamflow in the Colorado River Basin

The Colorado River is the dominant water source for the southwestern United States, crossing through seven states before reaching Mexico. The river supplies water to approximately 36 million people, irrigates nearly six million acres of farmland within and beyond the basin, and contributes an estimated 26 billion dollars each year to the region’s recreational economy. Yet the Colorado River’s water supply is already fully allocated, meaning that the economic and environmental health of the region is closely tied to the river’s streamflow. Climate projections for the Southwest show a future marked by chronic drought and substantial reductions in streamflow. The region has already been impacted by climate change,...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, CA, CASC, CMIP5, CO River Basin, All tags... Colorado River, Completed, Drought, Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Extreme Weather, Extreme Weather, Federal, Morro Bay, Multiple, NV, Projects by Region, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Southwest, Southwest, Southwest, Southwest CASC, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, bay-delta, drought, dynamical downscaling, ecosystem, ensemble, enso, gcm, hydrology, la nina, management, model, monsoon, multiple, pdf, precipitation, public health, regional climate projection, season, semi-arid, snowpack, sst, streamflow, streamflow projection, weather, Fewer tags

Temperate Northern Pacific Nearshore Points shapefile

This point shapefile approximates locations within 20 km of the North Pacific Coastline, as defined by the "World Country Boundaries (Generalized)" shapefile distributed by ESRI as part of their Data & Maps data series. They are based on raster data at 4 km resolution. Therefore there are between 3-5 points extending out from each location along the shoreline (at 4 km intervals).

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aleutian, Asian Pacific, BC, Baja, British Columbia, All tags... CA, California, Canada, China, Gulf of Alaska, Japan, Kamchatka, Korea, Kuroshio, National CASC, North America, North Pacific, OR, Oregon, Oyashio, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Ocean, Russia, SST, Sea of Okhotsk, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Vancouver, WA, Washington, Water, Coasts and Ice, Yellow Sea, coast, coastal zone, coastline, location, oceans, points, sea surface temperature, shapefile, shore, shoreline, Fewer tags

North Pacific Nearshore Sea Surface Temperature (SST) csv format (1981-2009)

The Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data of the nearshore region of the North Pacific show temperature ranges in degrees C using points whose locations correspond to the centroids of AVHRR Pathfinder version 5 monthly, global, 4 km data set (PFSST V50). The pathfinder rasters are available from the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC), hosted by NASA JPL. The data points in this dataset lie within a 20 km buffer from the GSHHS (Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline) coastline. The GSHHS vector data are available from the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). Furthermore, each point in the SST dataset is categorized by the ecoregion in which it is located. This...

Categories: Data; Tags: 4 km, AVHRR, Aleutian, Asian Pacific, BC, All tags... Baja, British Columbia, CA, California, California Current System, Canada, China, East Asia, Gulf of Alaska, Japan, Kamchatka, Korea, Kuroshio, National CASC, North America, North Pacific, OR, Oregon, Oyashio, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast, Pathfinder, Russia, SST, Sea of Okhotsk, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Vancouver, WA, Washington, Water, Coasts and Ice, Yellow Sea, biota, coast, csv, ecoregion, global, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, marine, oceans, oceans, point, remote sensing, satellite, sea surface, table, tabular, temperature, text, thermal, Fewer tags

North Pacific Nearshore Sea Surface Temperature (SST) shapefile format (1981-2009)

The Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data of the nearshore region of the North Pacific show temperature ranges in degrees C using points whose locations correspond to the centroids of AVHRR Pathfinder version 5 monthly, global, 4 km data set (PFSST V50). The pathfinder rasters are available from the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC), hosted by NASA JPL. The data points in this dataset lie within a 20 km buffer from the GSHHS (Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline) coastline. The GSHHS vector data are available from the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). Furthermore, each point in the SST dataset is categorized by the ecoregion in which it is located. This...

Categories: Data; Tags: 4 km, AVHRR, Aleutian, Asian Pacific, BC, All tags... Baja, British Columbia, CA, California, California Current System, Canada, China, East Asia, GIS, Gulf of Alaska, Japan, Kamchatka, Korea, Kuroshio, National CASC, North America, North Pacific, OR, Oregon, Oyashio, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast, Pathfinder, Russia, SST, Sea of Okhotsk, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Vancouver, WA, Washington, Water, Coasts and Ice, Yellow Sea, biota, coast, ecoregion, global, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, marine, ocean, oceans, point, remote sensing, satellite, sea surface, shapefile, temperature, thermal, vector, Fewer tags

North Pacific Nearshore Sea Surface Temperature (SST) ESRI GRID format (1981-2009)

The Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data of the nearshore region of the North Pacific show temperature ranges in degrees C using points whose locations correspond to the centroids of AVHRR Pathfinder version 5 monthly, global, 4 km data set (PFSST V50). The pathfinder rasters are available from the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC), hosted by NASA JPL. The grid cells in this dataset lie within a 20 km buffer from the GSHHS (Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline) coastline. The GSHHS vector data are available from the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). These data have been QA'd in that we have selected only data values with associated quality flags of...

Categories: Data; Tags: AVHRR, Aleutian, Asian Pacific, BC, British Columbia, All tags... CA, California, California Current System, Canada, China, East Asia, GIS, Gulf of Alaska, Japan, Kamchatka, Korea, Kuroshio, National CASC, North America, North Pacific, OR, Oregon, Oyashio, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast, Russia, SST, Sea of Okhotsk, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Vancouver, WA, Washington, Water, Coasts and Ice, Yellow Sea, average SST, biota, cell, climate, coast, ecoregion, global, grid, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, marine, mean SST, month, monthly mean, oceans, pixel, raster, remote sensing, satellite, sea surface, temperature, thermal, Fewer tags

Multidecadal climate variability of global lands and oceans

Principal components analysis (PCA) and singular value decomposition (SVD) are used to identify the primary modes of decadal and multidecadal variability in annual global Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) values and sea-surface temperatures (SSTs). The PDSI and SST data for 1925–2003 were detrended and smoothed (with a 10-year moving average) to isolate the decadal and multidecadal variability. The first two principal components (PCs) of the PDSI PCA explained almost 38% of the decadal and multidecadal variance in the detrended and smoothed global annual PDSI data. The first two PCs of detrended and smoothed global annual SSTs explained nearly 56% of the decadal variability in global SSTs. The PDSI PCs and the...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: PDSI, SST, decadal variability, drought