Monthly surface water temperature by site (2023)

The measurements of Surface water temperature, available as thirty-minute averages, measured by a platinum resistance thermometer at the sensor location are labelled by site and month for three NEON streams. Values are means from the NEON WAQ product; months are ordered Jan–Dec.

Usage

temp_tidy

Format

A tibble with columns:

site

Factor; NEON site code: ARIK, CARI, LEWI

month

Ordered factor; Jan, Feb, …, Dec

surfWaterTempMean

Numeric; temperature in °C

Source

Constructed from NEON downloads (2023) and tidied for educational purpose NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network). Temperature (PRT) in surface water (DP1.20053.001), RELEASE-2025. https://doi.org/10.48443/0cm0-gh54. Dataset accessed from https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP1.20053.001/RELEASE-2025 on October 21, 2025.

Examples

dplyr::glimpse(temp_tidy)
#> Rows: 52,560
#> Columns: 3
#> $ site              <chr> "LEWI", "LEWI", "LEWI", "LEWI", "LEWI", "LEWI", "LEW…
#> $ month             <chr> "Jan", "Jan", "Jan", "Jan", "Jan", "Jan", "Jan", "Ja…
#> $ surfWaterTempMean <dbl> 9.987, 9.987, 9.991, 9.976, 9.938, 9.817, 9.665, 9.2…