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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ESSDD</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Earth System Science Data Discussions</journal-title>
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<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">1866-3591</issn>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/essd-2026-522</article-id>
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<article-title>Coral Reef &lt;em&gt;In Situ&lt;/em&gt; Product (CRISP): a global compilation of coral reef temperature time series</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Larson</surname>
<given-names>Angela G.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1314-2601</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Strange</surname>
<given-names>Avi</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jasnos</surname>
<given-names>Oliwia</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Johnson</surname>
<given-names>Emily</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Heck</surname>
<given-names>Abigail G.</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Colin</surname>
<given-names>Patrick L.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6833-6753</ext-link>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>DeCarlo</surname>
<given-names>Thomas M.</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, USA</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Coral Reef Research Foundation, Koror, Palau</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>21</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>16</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Angela G. Larson et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Coral reef ecosystems are increasingly affected by climate-driven marine heatwaves, but the thermal environments experienced by corals at the reef-scale are still not well resolved by satellite-derived sea surface temperature (SST) products. &lt;em&gt;In situ&lt;/em&gt; temperature loggers can capture much of this fine-scale variability, including diel temperature ranges, short-term extremes, and depth-dependent structure. However, these datasets are often fragmented across sources, inconsistently formatted, or not readily accessible for synthesis and reuse. To address these gaps, we developed the Coral Reef &lt;em&gt;In Situ&lt;/em&gt; Product (CRISP), a global aggregation of temperature time series collected from coral reef environments. At the time of writing, CRISP includes 2,548 logger deployments assembled from a mix of public repositories, peer-reviewed literature, gray literature, and community contributions. Each deployment record is associated with available metadata fields stored in a consistent manner across all loggers. The entire dataset is provided in NetCDF format to support use in common scientific workflows (&lt;em&gt;e.g.&lt;/em&gt;, MATLAB, Python, R). By bringing together these otherwise fragmented observations, CRISP enables analyses of fine-scale thermal variability across coral reef systems. The dataset adheres to the FAIR data principles by emphasizing findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability. CRISP can be used for a variety of scientific applications including coral bleaching research, thermal stress assessment, reef climate monitoring, model validation, and investigations of environmental variability across reef systems.</p>
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