Coral Bleaching HotSpots

clickable global map of coral bleaching hotspots
hotspots in Mediterranean and Red Sea hotspots around India hotspots east of Japan hotspots around Hawaii hotspots around Central America hotspots West of Africa hotspots in Mediterranean and Red Sea hotspots around southern Africa hotspots in the southern Indian Ocean hotspots around Australia hotspots in the South Pacific hotspots west of South America hotspots east of Brazil hotspots around southern Africa Click on the image to zoom in.

Current images: Global | E.Hem. | W.Hem. | Pacific | Caribbean | Coral Triangle

Data Formats Available

images Image Archives
Regional imagery and image archives from OSDPD.
Google Earth Google Earth
All of our satellite data products are available on Google Earth.
Virtual Stations Virtual Stations
Imagery, graphs, ASCII data, and e-mail alerts for reef pixels around the world.
animations Animations
Data animations and downloadable animated GIF files from OSPO.
HDF data HDF data files
Raw data in Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), with free NOAA viewing software.

The HotSpot product shows areas where corals are currently under thermal stress. The scale goes from 0 to 5 degrees C. Areas above the bleaching threshold are in orange to red colors. Spatial resolution is one-half degree.


Product description in the tutorial.
Technical details on the methodology page.