NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) data posted on the internet are freely available to the public. All content on this website is considered to be in the public domain and may be distributed freely. We rely on the ethics and integrity of the user to ensure that the source of data and products is appropriately cited and credited. Credit and courtesy should be given to "NOAA Coral Reef Watch".
Recommendations for citing CRW data and products:
For publications, where a formal citation is desired and is deemed necessary
(especially when CRW data are used in an analysis for producing results
presented in a publication), CRW recommends that our data and products be
cited like a book. The recommended key elements of the citation are, in order:
Author(s), Publication Date, Title, Dates Used, Editor/Compiler, Place of
Publication, Publisher, Distribution Medium or Location, and Access Date.
Please see below, as well as the document Recommendations
for Coral Reef Watch Data and Product Citation (produced April 2011), for additional information
and examples of recommended citations.
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5km-resolution products:
NOAA Coral Reef Watch. 2019, updated daily. NOAA Coral Reef Watch Version 3.1 Daily 5km Satellite Regional Virtual Station Time Series Data for Southeast Florida, Mar. 12, 2013-Mar. 11, 2014. College Park, Maryland, USA: NOAA Coral Reef Watch. Data set accessed 2020-02-05 at https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/vs/data.php. Sample 2: If Version 3.1 Degree Heating Week NetCDF data are used for an analysis that leads to a publication, the data may be cited as: NOAA Coral Reef Watch. 2018, updated daily. NOAA Coral Reef Watch Version 3.1 Daily Global 5km Satellite Coral Bleaching Degree Heating Week Product, Jun. 3, 2013-Jun. 2, 2014. College Park, Maryland, USA: NOAA Coral Reef Watch. Data set accessed 2020-09-01 at ftp://ftp.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/sod/mecb/crw/data/5km/v3.1/nc/v1.0/daily/dhw/. |
Recommendations for citing CRW methodologies and algorithms:
A formal citation is usually required in publications when previously published
methods and/or algorithms are used and/or referred to in the work to be published.
We recommend citing the following articles, which address the methodologies and
algorithms that were used to produce CRW data and products. This list will grow
over time as additional CRW products become available and more
articles are published on CRW data and products. For further details on these
articles or to view a more comprehensive list of CRW publications, please visit
CRW's publications web page.
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1) Example publications that provide an overview of CRW's next-generation daily global 5km satellite Sea Surface Temperature (SST), SST Anomaly, Coral Bleaching HotSpot, and coral bleaching Degree Heating Week products:
Skirving, W; Marsh, B; De La Cour, J; Liu, G; Harris, A; Maturi, E; Geiger, E; Eakin, CM. CoralTemp and the Coral Reef Watch Coral Bleaching
Heat Stress Product Suite Version 3.1. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 3856; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12233856.
Liu, G, Skirving WJ, Geiger EF, De La Cour JL, Marsh BL, Heron SF, Tirak KV, Strong AE, Eakin CM (2017)
NOAA Coral Reef Watch's 5km Satellite Coral Bleaching Heat Stress Monitoring Product Suite Version 3 and Four-Month Outlook Version 4.
Reef Encounter 45 32(1): 39-45.
2) Article that introduces CRW's Thermal History products:
Heron, SF, Maynard J, van Hooidonk R, Eakin CM (2016). Warming Trends and Bleaching Stress of the World's Coral Reefs 1985-2012. Scientific Reports 6: 38402,
doi:10.1038/srep38402.
3) Article that introduces CRW's Coral Disease Outbreak Risk products for the Great Barrier Reef (Australia) and Hawaii:
Heron S.F., B.L. Willis, W.J. Skirving, C.M. Eakin, C.A. Page, I.R. Miller (2010).
Summer Hot Snaps and Winter Conditions: Modelling White Syndrome Outbreaks on
Great Barrier Reef Corals. PLoS One.
4) Example publications that provide an overview of CRW's Climate Forecast System (CFS)-based probabilistic weekly Four-Month Coral Bleaching Outlook product:
Liu, G, Eakin CM, Chen M, Kumar A, De La Cour JL, Heron SF, Geiger EF, Skirving WJ, Tirak KV, Strong AE (2018) Predicting Heat Stress to Inform Reef Management:
NOAA Coral Reef Watch's 4-Month Coral Bleaching Outlook. Front. Mar. Sci. 5:57.
Liu, G, Skirving WJ, Geiger EF, De La Cour JL, Marsh BL, Heron SF, Tirak KV, Strong AE, Eakin CM (2017)
NOAA Coral Reef Watch's 5km Satellite Coral Bleaching Heat Stress Monitoring Product Suite Version 3 and Four-Month Outlook Version 4.
Reef Encounter 45 32(1): 39-45.
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Coral Reef Watch Publications web page
For a list of related publications that have used Coral Reef Watch |
If you have any question regarding these citations, please contact us at
coralreefwatch@noaa.gov.
