Time-series oceanographic data collected from reef flat and lagoon sediment dynamics packages in 2016 off Jurabi Point, Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia

Data were accumulated into NetCDF files. During post-processing, data collected when instruments were out of the water, and data degraded by biological fouling, were removed from the time series. Bad data points were identified by 1) the deployment and recovery times, 2) pressure readings equal to or less than 3 cm of water, 3) amplitude or correlation values outside of predetermined quality thresholds for the velocimeter. The exception to this is the optical backscatter data (variable name of ‘Trb1_980’) contained in the Nortek Vector current meter files (suffix of ‘vec-b-1Hz’) were not edited to remove potential fouling from biota in the water column. The user is responsible for deciding which of these data are affected by biofouling.

Files are named with a convention that uses a 13-digit alpha-numeric code. The first three characters for this dataset are all 'NIN' for the experiment name; the fourth and fifth positions represent the calendar year in which the first data point in the file was taken (15, 2015); the sixth, seventh and eighth characters are an alphanumeric code for the site name (TR1, TR2 etc.); the ninth and tenth characters represent the instrument position on the platform, where 01 is the top-most. Next is a two or three-character code for data type (vec, Nortek Vector; alt, EofE Altimeter). The Nortek Vector data were downsampled to 1Hz for simplicity; these files are denoted by a suffix of ‘-1Hz’.

Edited metadata to add keywords section with USGS persistent identifier as theme keyword. No data were changed.

Nortek Aquadopp data collected during the same experiment were added to this data release. Aquadopp data were processed as noted in Process Steps 1 and included in the zip files for the appropriate tripod (T1, T2, T3) and mooring (M00). Aquadopp data files follow the same naming convention as in Process Step 2, with a 3-character code (aqd) suffix indicating the data type. In addition to including these new data, Start and End dates in the internal metadata within the netCDF files of the Version 1 data release were corrected in Version 2. Finally, a sentence was added to Process Step 2 to indicate that the Nortek vector data were downsampled to 1Hz. None of the actual v.1 data themselves were altered.