15-minute Parker River gap-filled tide height and salinity data, PIE LTER, Plum Island Sound, MA (2014–2023), for ELM PFLOTRAN modeling

Dataset · Wed Nov 19 04:00:00 EST 2025

DOI:https://doi.org/10.15485/3006140· OSTI ID:3006140

Forbrich, Inke ^[1]; Orton, Hannah ^[2]

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1. University of Toledo
2. Marine Biological Laboratory

This dataset contains 15-minute tide height and salinity data from the Typha site along the Parker River, part of the Plum Island Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research (PIE LTER) site in Plum Island Sound, Massachusetts (MA) 2014-2023. Tide height (in NAVD88) was compiled from measurements conducted at the mouth of Plum Island Sound and corrected for time lags. Gap-filling of missing periods were done by fitting tidal constituents to the time series. Salinity was measured (and is stored on ESS DIVE ) in 2022 and 2023 using HOBO U24-002 conductivity loggers. River discharge is the most important control on tidal river water salinity at the location (Vallino & Hopkinson, 1998). An artificial neural network was trained to predict river water salinity at the location using Parker River discharge (USGS station 01101000, Parker River at Byfield, MA) and gap-filled salinity observations from a long-term monitoring station ca. 3km downstream from the Typha site (LTER station ‘Middle Road’) as input variables to create continuous time series information. The data set was used in the spin up and simulations of a land surface model coupled to a biogeochemical reaction network (ELM PFLOTRAN) assessing impacts of hydrology and salinity input on methane fluxes in 2022 and 2023 (Sulman et al., 2024). Metadata files ELMPFLOTRAN_tide_salinity_dd.csv and ELMPFLOTRAN_tide_salinity_flmd.csv provide details on site location, data variables, and QA/QC methods .

• Research Organization: From tides to seasons: How cyclic tidal drivers and plant physiology interact to affect carbon cycling at the terrestrial-estuarine boundary
• Sponsoring Organization: U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 3006140
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > TIDES
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > WATER QUALITY
EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > GEOCHEMISTRY
ESS-DIVE CSV File Formatting Guidelines Reporting Format
ESS-DIVE File Level Metadata Reporting Format
Timestamp
brackish
salinity
salt marsh
tidal
tide_height