Parameter: sea_elevation

Short Description: sea surface elevation
Short Name: sea_elevation
Official Name: sea_elevation
Units: various
External Identifier: odo:matches: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P07/current/GYTUBB9R/

Description

Sea surface vertical distance above a named surface.

Example: Elevation of water level in meters in reference to the North American Vertical Datum established in 1988 (NAVD88)


DatasetPI-Supplied DescriptionPI-Supplied Name
Intertidal temperatures measured via data loggers deployed at 19 rocky intertidal sites in California, USA and Baja California, Mexico from spring 2022 to fall 2023Tide height at which temperature was measured Elevation
Cross-channel geometry of Groves Creek salt marsh, Skidaway Island Georgia, USA, Aug. 2013 to March 2015calculated elevation from navd88 elevation
Database summarizing independent studies of nekton taxa associated with oyster reefstidal elevation relative to mean low water (positive values are above MLW; negative values below MLW) tidal_elev_m_MLW
Moored physical and chemical parameters measured by MiniDOT at El Rosario and Isla Natividad sites, MexicoElevation Elevation_Compensation_m
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Elevations for initial scans for each reef broken into 2-cm bins and labeled by midpoint; all in reference to NAVD88 elevation
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)The overall standard deviation of vertical change rate across all reefs laser scanned mean_avg_change_sd
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)The overall mean rate of vertical change for each elevation bins across all reefs laser scanned mean_rate
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Average vertical change in meters for each elevation 2 cm bin at site MF1-1997 MF1_1997_avg_change
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Standard deviation of the average vertical change in meters for each elevation bin at site MF1-1997 MF1_1997_avg_change_sd
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Average vertical change rate at each elevation bin in millimeters divided by the timestep (years) at site MF1-1997 MF1_1997_avg_rate
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Standard deviation of the average vertical change rate at site MF1-1997 MF1_1997_avg_rate_sd
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Average vertical change in meters for each elevation 2 cm bin at site MF1-2000 MF1_2000_avg_change
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Standard deviation of the average vertical change in meters for each elevation bin at site MF1-2000 MF1_2000_avg_change_sd
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Average vertical change rate at each elevation bin in millimeters divided by the timestep (years) at site MF1-2000 MF1_2000_avg_rate
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Standard deviation of the average vertical change rate at site MF1-2000 MF1_2000_avg_rate_sd
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Average vertical change in meters for each elevation 2 cm bin at site MF2-1997 MF2_1997_avg_change
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Standard deviation of the average vertical change in meters for each elevation bin at site MF2-1997 MF2_1997_avg_change_sd
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Average vertical change rate at each elevation bin in millimeters divided by the timestep (years) at site MF2-1997 MF2_1997_avg_rate
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Standard deviation of the average vertical change rate at site MF2-1997 MF2_1997_avg_rate_sd
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Average vertical change in meters for each elevation 2 cm bin at site MF2-2000 MF2_2000_avg_change
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Standard deviation of the average vertical change in meters for each elevation bin at site MF2-2000 MF2_2000_avg_change_sd
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Average vertical change rate at each elevation bin in millimeters divided by the timestep (years) at site MF2-2000 MF2_2000_avg_rate
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Standard deviation of the average vertical change rate at site MF2-2000 MF2_2000_avg_rate_sd
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Average vertical change in meters for each elevation 2 cm bin at site MF3-1997 MF3_1997_avg_change
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Standard deviation of the average vertical change in meters for each elevation bin at site MF3-1997 MF3_1997_avg_change_sd
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Average vertical change rate at each elevation bin in millimeters divided by the timestep (years) at site MF3-1997 MF3_1997_avg_rate
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Standard deviation of the average vertical change rate at site MF3-1997 MF3_1997_avg_rate_sd
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Average vertical change in meters for each elevation 2 cm bin at site MF4-2000 MF4_2000_avg_change
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Standard deviation of the average vertical change in meters for each elevation bin at site MF4-2000 MF4_2000_avg_change_sd
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Average vertical change rate at each elevation bin in millimeters divided by the timestep (years) at site MF4-2000 MF4_2000_avg_rate
Mussel bed vertical change information from laser scans conducted from 2010 to 2012 in Back Sound, North Carolina (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Standard deviation of the average vertical change rate at site MF4-2000 MF4_2000_avg_rate_sd
NCBI accession numbers describing 16S rRNA and 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequences from sediment samples collected offshore of San Francisco, Califronia, USA in March 2017 on R/V Oceanus cruise OC1703ADepth from sea surface level elevation
Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) density and length measurements from Back Sound, New Jersey in 2010 and 2014 (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Oyster density sample elevation in reference to NAVD88 elevation
Reef elevation, exposure, and vertical change from GPS grids of Back Sound, North Carolina from 2011 to 2014 (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Average vertical change at each elevation bin in millimeters divided by the timestep (years) for a specific reef avg_vertical_change
Reef elevation, exposure, and vertical change from GPS grids of Back Sound, North Carolina from 2011 to 2014 (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Elevation above which 10% of the reef resides at the intitial time step; site sea surface elevation in reference to NAVD88 elevation
Reef elevation, exposure, and vertical change from GPS grids of Back Sound, North Carolina from 2011 to 2014 (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Percent aerial exposure at the top 10% of the reef at the intitial time step exposure_percent
Discrete bottle sample measurements for carbonate chemistry, organic alkalinity and organic carbon from samples collected in Waquoit Bay and Vineyard Sound, MA in 2016Water elevation (North American Vertical Datum of 1988 or NAVD88) Elevation
Temperature from a thermistor chain deployed along a 30m depth contour at Mission Beach, CA in June of 2016Sea surface height Surface_height
Thermal buffering potential of mussels across latitude from a study on the West coast of the United States from June to October of 2012 and 2013.Relative elevational zone in which data was recorded. H=upper quartile of the vertical extent of mussel beds at the site; L=lower quartile of the vertical extent of mussel beds at the site elev
Along-stream velocity, cross-stream velocity, and estimated pressure gradient at station E located at an oyster reef in Wassaw Sound, Georgia in November of 2014 (SensoryNCE project)Water level from the ADV at station C (ADV07). This is assumed to be equal to water level at the pressure transducer at station D (PT-D). water_level
Water level data from pressure transducer stands at intertidal and subtidal oyster reefs in Wassaw Sound, Georgia in November of 2014 (SensoryNCE project)Tidal stage in reference to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) tidal_stage
Water level in Back Sound, North Carolina from June to December of 2011 (EstuarineMetaDyn project)Water level elevation binned by centimeter (NAVD88) for establishing a water level histogram water_level