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Strategic Plan - Background Looking Forward
Appendices
  • Appendix A - Glossary and Abbreviations
  • Appendix B - Scope of Regional Climate Related Changes in the Long Island Sound Area
  • Appendix C - Technical Workgroup Participants
  • Appendix D - Bi-State Technical Work Group
  • Appendix E - Connecticut Technical Work Group Discussions
  • Appendix F - NY Technical Work Group Discussions
  • Appendix G - NY Matrix
  • Appendix H - Long Island Sound Matrix
  • Appendix I - Review of Current Monitoring Efforts in Coastal Ecosystems
  • Appendix J - Timeline and Milestones for the Sentinel Monitoring for Climate Change Program Table
  • Appendix K - Survey Results
  • Appendix L - Data Availability

 

 
Long Island Sound Sentinel Monitoring for Climate Change Program

Core Parameters

 

A set of core parameters was identified that should be measured or otherwise collected in addition to sentinel indices. These core parameters are physical or chemical factors that are typically measured in most monitoring programs, either by multiple groups or by one group over a large geographic area. For this reason, they are not being themselves proposed as sentinel indices and, therefore, are not included in the sentinel column of the matrix (Appendix H). However, the work groups recommended that eventual site selection for the pilot study be influenced by the availability of several of these core parameters from other monitoring programs. The core parameters listed here are taken from the climate related factors column and are in no hierarchical order:

  • precipitation
  • stream flow (runoff and baseflow)
  • sea level
  • water temperature
  • salinity
  • wind (speed and direction)
  • relative humidity
  • groundwater levels
  • pH; it was noted that while pH is considered a “core parameter,” it is not well characterized in LIS.
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