Historical Closure and Environmental Information

View the closure status of the Pacific Loggerhead Conservation Area and the seasonal (March-August) or annual (January-December) prevailing oceanic environmental conditions from the years 2003 to the present.

Pacific Loggerhead Conservation Area Closures

El Nino Conditions and Coastal Water Temperatures - 2014 Season

Month El Nino Status El Nino Forecast SST Anomaly
Mar Not Active ENSO-neutral conditions are favored to continue through at least the Northern Hemisphere spring 2017, with increasing chances for El Niño development into the fall. 2.9 1.3
Apr Not Active ENSO-neutral conditions are favored to continue through at least the Northern Hemisphere spring 2017, with increasing chances for El Niño development into the fall. 12.9 1.3
May Not Active ENSO-neutral conditions are favored to continue through at least the Northern Hemisphere spring 2017, with increasing chances for El Niño development into the fall. 12.3 1.3
Jun Not Active ENSO-neutral and El Niño are nearly equally favored during the Northern Hemisphere summer and fall 2017. 12.3 1.3
Jul Not Active ENSO-neutral and El Niño are nearly equally favored during the Northern Hemisphere summer and fall 2017. 12.3 1.3
Aug Not Active ENSO-neutral and El Niño are nearly equally favored during the Northern Hemisphere summer and fall 2017. 12.3 1.9

El Nino status and forecasts provided by NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.
SST and SST anomaly measurements provided by the GHRSST Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution Sea Surface Temperature dataset.

TOTAL Timeseries

January - December 2017

Temperature Observations To Avoid Loggerhead (TOTAL) values for the Loggerhead Conservation Area. An alert is indicated when indicator values (the timeseries) exceed a threshold of 0.77 (red horizontal line).

 

Graph of the Temperature Observations To Avoid Loggerhead indicator

Sea Surface Temperature

Monthly mean sea surface temperature off Southern California. The Pacific Loggerhead Conservation Area is located within the black lines and the coast. Use arrows to view the last six months of measurements.

Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly for the 2014 Season

Monthly mean surface temperature anomaly (deviation from the average temperature) off Southern California. The loggerhead conservation area is located within the black lines and the coast. Use arrows to view the last six months of measurements.

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