Dataset title: Annual Water Quality in Everglades National Park, Florida Bay, West Florida Shelf, and Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Florida, USA: 1994-2019 Dataset ID: doi:10.6073/pasta/1a6b48ef66f1bb2c43a188e3b2acce99 Dataset Creator Name: Dr Paul Julian Position: Hydrologic Modeler Organization: Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation Address: Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation PO Box 839 Sanibel, FL 33957 United States Email: pjulian@sccf.org Metadata Provider Organization: Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Address: Florida International University 11200 SW 8th Street, OE 148 Miami, FL 33199 USA Phone: 305-348-6054 Email: fcelter@fiu.edu URL: https://fcelter.fiu.edu Dataset Abstract Geographic Coverage Bounding Coordinates Geographic description: Everglades National Park, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, and West Florida Shelf. West bounding coordinate: -83.1 East bounding coordinate: -80.038 North bounding coordinate: 25.904 South bounding coordinate: 24.366 Temporal Coverage Start Date: 1994-05-01 End Date: 2019-04-30 Data Table Entity Name: FCE1248_WYGeomean Entity Description: Annual (water year) geometric mean nutrient, chlorophyll-a and total organic carbon concentrations Object Name: FCE1248_WYGeomean.csv Data Format Number of Header Lines: 1 Attribute Orientation: column Field Delimiter: , Number of Records: Attributes Attribute Name: STATION Attribute Label: STATION Attribute Definition: monitoring location name/identifier Storage Type: string Measurement Scale: text Missing Value Code: Attribute Name: Region Attribute Label: Region Attribute Definition: generalized ecosystem region Storage Type: string Measurement Scale: Coastal_Mangroves= Coastal Mangrove fringe along the western coast of Everglades National Park ENP= Freshwater portion of Everglades National Park FLBay= Florida Bay Keys= Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Shelf= West Florida Shelf, offshore of Everglades National Park, north of the Florida Keys archipelago Missing Value Code: Attribute Name: source Attribute Label: source Attribute Definition: original data source Storage Type: string Measurement Scale: LTER= Florida Coastal Everglades LTER NOAA= National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (NOAA AOML) SERC= Florida International University Southeast Research Center (FIU SERC) WMD= South Florida Water Management District Missing Value Code: Attribute Name: WY Attribute Label: WY Attribute Definition: Florida water year (May - April) Storage Type: float Measurement Scale: Units: Year Number Type: integer Missing Value Code: Attribute Name: TN Attribute Label: TN Attribute Definition: total nitrogen concentration Storage Type: float Measurement Scale: Units: milligramPerLiter Number Type: real Missing Value Code: NA (missing/no data) Attribute Name: DIN Attribute Label: DIN Attribute Definition: dissolved inorganic nitrogen concentration (nitrate+nitrite+ammonia) Storage Type: float Measurement Scale: Units: milligramPerLiter Number Type: real Missing Value Code: NA (missing/no data) Attribute Name: TP Attribute Label: TP Attribute Definition: total phosphorus concentration Storage Type: float Measurement Scale: Units: microgramPerLiter Number Type: real Missing Value Code: NA (missing/no data) Attribute Name: SRP Attribute Label: SRP Attribute Definition: soluable reactive phosphorus concentration Storage Type: float Measurement Scale: Units: microgramPerLiter Number Type: real Missing Value Code: NA (missing/no data) Attribute Name: Chla Attribute Label: Chla Attribute Definition: chlorophyll a concentration Storage Type: float Measurement Scale: Units: microgramPerLiter Number Type: real Missing Value Code: NA (missing/no data) Attribute Name: TOC Attribute Label: TOC Attribute Definition: total organic carbon concentration Storage Type: float Measurement Scale: Units: milligramPerLiter Number Type: real Missing Value Code: NA (missing/no data) Attribute Name: SALINITY Attribute Label: SALINITY Attribute Definition: Concentration of salinity Storage Type: float Measurement Scale: Units: PSU Number Type: real Missing Value Code: NA (missing/no data) Methods Method Step Description Method Step Description This method step describes provenance-based metadata as specified in the LTER EML Best Practices. 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The data authors and the repository where these data were obtained shall not be liable for damages resulting from any use or misinterpretation of the data. Thank you. Dataset Keywords FCE LTER Everglades National Park Florida Coastal Everglades LTER water quality water chemistry nutrients carbon inorganic nutrients Maintenance knb-lter-fce.1248.2: Updated and corrected values due to missed outliers (i.e. nutrient reversals, values outside of expected ranges, etc.) and changes to minimum detection limits, added salinity parameters due to updated analyses, added 57 records due to updated dataset(s). Dataset Contact Name: Paul Julian Position: Hydrologic Modeler Organization: Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation Address: Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation PO Box 839 Sanibel, FL 33957 United States Email: pjulian@sccf.org Position: Information Manager Organization: Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Address: Florida International University 11200 SW 8th Street, OE 148 Miami, FL 33199 USA Email: fcelter@fiu.edu URL: https://fcelter.fiu.edu