Gridded meteorological data as a resource for mechanistic macroecology in coastal environments.

摘要: Gridded weather data were evaluated as sources of forcing variables for biophysical models intertidal animal body temperature with model results obtained using local station serving the baseline comparison. The objective study was to determine which gridded are sufficient capture observed patterns thermal stress. Three coastal sites in western North America included this analysis: Boiler Bay, Oregon; Bodega California; and Pacific Grove, California. highest spatial resolution, 32-km American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) 38-km Climate Forecasting System (CFSR), predicted daily maximum most similarly data. Time step size important that change rapidly throughout day, such solar radiation. There site-based differences ability predict temperature, ...