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NCCOS Assessment: U.S. West Coast Cross-Shelf Habitat Suitability Modeling of Benthic Macrofauna, 2016-10-01 to 2020-09-30 (NCEI Accession 0276535)

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This data collection contains geospatial data from models predicting the spatial distributions of benthic macrofauna offshore of the continental U.S. West Coast to 1200 m depth. It includes raster datasets at 25 x 25 m spatial resolution depicting the mean of the predicted probability of occurrence and the coefficient of variation of the predicted probability of occurrence for 43 taxa of benthic macrofauna. The data collection also includes raster datasets at 25 x 25 m spatial resolution depicting each of the 66 spatial environmental predictor variables considered for fitting the models.

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0276535 BENTHIC SPECIES CHLOROPHYLL CURRENT SPEED HABITAT HABITAT - BENTHIC MACROFAUNA SALINITY seafloor topography SUBSTRATE DESCRIPTION WATER COLOR WATER TEMPERATURE WAVE DATA WAVE ENERGY WAVE HEIGHT model output NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Coastal Waters of California Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary North Pacific Ocean Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary oceanography DOC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS > National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Characterizing Potential Distributions of Deep-Sea Corals, Sponges, and Macrofauna Offshore of the U.S. West Coast Cross-Shelf Habitat Suitability Modeling for Benthic Macrofauna EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ECHINODERMS EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > MOLLUSKS > BIVALVES EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > MOLLUSKS > GASTROPODS EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > SEGMENTED WORMS (ANNELIDS) EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > CHLOROPHYLL EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > OCEAN COLOR EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > WAVE HEIGHT EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY Marine Spatial Ecology > Ecological and Biogeographic Assessments Marine Spatial Ecology > Habitat Mapping Derived Data Product Geospatial Model Habitat Suitability Models/Analyses > Data Analysis > Environmental Modeling OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN U.S. States and Territories > California U.S. States and Territories > Oregon U.S. States and Territories > Washington Waterbodies > Pacific Ocean Coastal Ocean Continental Shelf Eastern Pacific Southern California Bight G13EGR

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issued 2023-02-06T00:00:00.000+00:00
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temporal 2016-10-01T00:00:00+00:00/2020-09-30T00:00:00+00:00
title NCCOS Assessment: U.S. West Coast Cross-Shelf Habitat Suitability Modeling of Benthic Macrofauna, 2016-10-01 to 2020-09-30 (NCEI Accession 0276535)

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