Satellites & Bleaching SST Product
Sea Surface Temperature Product  |  Time Series Graphs

For each of the Virtual Station sites, we also show how the SST changes over time. The graphs begin in 2000 and go to the present day. Let’s look at an example from Heron Island, on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef:

This graph contains two years of SST data from 2002 and 2003, and is shown as a dark blue solid line. The temperature is lower during August and September, which is winter in the southern hemisphere. The highest temperature during those two years happened in mid-February 2002, when the SST reached approximately 29°C.

We will return to this graph later in the tutorial, to talk about the other kinds of data shown on the image. You can see near-real-time graphs on the Coral Reef Watch website.

Try our hands-on SST exercises to learn more about this product.

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