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Data Release
Projected Seafloor Elevation Along the Florida Reef Tract From Big Pine Key to Marquesas Key, Florida—50 Years From 2011 Based on Historical Rates of Mean Elevation Change
By Kimberly K. Yates, David G. Zawada, Stephanie R. Arsenault, and Zachery W. Fehr
USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida
Summary
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center conducted research to quantify the combined effect of all constructive and destructive processes on modern coral reef ecosystems by projecting future regional-scale changes in seafloor elevation for several sites along the Florida Reef Tract, Florida (FL) including the shallow seafloor along Key West, FL. USGS staff used historical bathymetric point data from the 1930's (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Coast Survey, see Yates and others, 2017) and light detection and ranging (lidar)-derived data acquired in 2002 (Brock and others, 2006, 2007) to calculate historical seafloor elevation changes in the Upper Florida Keys (UFK) (Yates and others, 2017). Using those changes in seafloor elevation, annual rates of elevation change were calculated for 13 habitat types found in the UFK reef tract. The annual rate of mean elevation change for each habitat type was applied to a digital elevation model (DEM) extending from Big Pine Key to Marquesas Key, FL that was modified from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Key West coastal DEM (NOAA, 2011) to project future seafloor elevation (from 2011) along the Key West section of the Florida Reef Tract. Grid resolution for the DEM is 1/3 arc second (approximately 10 meters). Data were collected under Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary permit FKNMS-2016-068.
For more information visit: Yates, K. K., Zawada, D. G., Smiley, N. A., and Tiling-Range, G., 2017, Divergence of seafloor elevation and sea level rise in coral reef ecosystems: Biogeosciences, v. 14, no. 6, p. 1739–1772, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-1739-2017.Data
| File Name and Description | Metadata (XML format) | Metadata (text format) | Download File |
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| 50_Year_KeyWest_Seafloor_ Projection_DEM_MeanElevation.zip Projected Key West seafloor elevation 50 years from 2011, based on mean elevation change (.tif) |
50_Year_KeyWest_Seafloor_ Projection_MeanElevation_metadata.xml |
50_Year_KeyWest_Seafloor_ Projection_MeanElevation_metadata.txt |
50_Year_KeyWest_Seafloor_ Projection_DEM_MeanElevation.zip (52.3 MB) |
| KeyWest_Habitat_OriginalClip.zip Original habitat map clipped to study area, used to produce this dataset (.shp) |
Same as above | Same as above | KeyWest_Habitat_OriginalClip.zip (9.7 MB) |
| KeyWest_ElevationSurface_OriginalClip.zip Original Key West DEM, clipped to study area, used to produce this dataset (.tif) |
Same as above | Same as above | KeyWest_ElevationSurface_ OriginalClip.zip (52 MB) |
| 50_Year_KeyWest_Seafloor_Projection_ MeanElevation.zip Spreadsheet containing data used to compute projected Key West seafloor elevation change 50 years from 2011, based on mean elevation change (.csv) |
Same as above | Same as above | 50_Year_KeyWest_Seafloor_ Projection_MeanElevation.zip (18 KB) |
| Supplemental information | |||
| Supplemental_Map.zip Summary map for the projected Key West seafloor elevation change 50 years from 2011, based on mean elevation change (.png) |
Not applicable | Not applicable | Supplemental_Map.zip (378 KB) |
Figure 1. Spatial extent of seafloor elevation projections for Key West, Florida: 50 years from 2011 based on historical rates of mean elevation change.
Suggested Citation
Yates, K.K., Zawada, D.G., Arsenault, S.R., and Fehr, Z.W., 2019, Projected seafloor elevation along the Florida Reef Tract from Big Pine Key to Marquesas Key, Florida—50 years from 2011 based on historical rates of mean elevation change: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P91NDHX0.