The new experimental
enhanced 50km product suite provides data
up to the coastline, covering more than 99% of coral reef pixels. A
new climatology corrects some errors in the operational products.
Two new experimenal products have been added.
Light Stress Damage combines
light and temperature to predict coral bleaching stress.
Coral Disease Risk Maps pinpoint
regions where temperature conditions set up a risk of outbreaks.
Our
Bleaching Outlook indicates
that the potential for coral bleaching in the Caribbean in 2009 has lessened.
It appears unlikely that bleaching will be severe
along the Pacific coast of Mexico and islands in the equatorial
central Pacific Ocean either.
Our
Bleaching Outlook indicates a significant
potential for high thermal stress in the Caribbean in 2009, with concern
in the central Pacific and near Japan.
Our
Bleaching Outlook indicates a significant
potential for high thermal stress in the Caribbean in 2009, with low level stress
in the central Pacific and near Japan.
We are in the process of switching to a new website design. You will notice
gradual changes to some web pages as we make implement and test the new
design. Please be patient!
Our new twice-weekly satellite global Bleaching
Alert Area Product is now available.
We have released our new Ocean Acidification Product Suite for the Caribbean.
Graphs, data, maps, and animations are available from our
Experimental
Products page. See the
NOAA
press release for more details.
Our
current Coral Bleaching
Outlook
(map and animation) has been updated to include a message about the potential
threat for bleaching around Australia, Papua-New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands.
We have expanded our network of Virtual Stations from 24 to 190 locations
worldwide. Graphs, data, and e-mail alerts are available from our
Experimental Products page.
See the
NOAA press release for more details.
Our current Coral Bleaching Outlook map and
animation are now available in the new version (V3.3) of our Google Earth
product suite. Please check out our
Google Earth product website for detail.
The NOAA Coral Reef Watch bleaching forecast system indicates that there will be
some bleaching across the Caribbean this year, especially in the Windward Islands.
Some bleaching is expected in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and in the western
Pacific from Papua-New Guinea to Japan. See the
experimental seasonal bleaching
outlook page for more details.
A new
NOAA coral
bleaching prediction system
indicates that there will be some bleaching in the Caribbean later this year,
but bleaching will probably not be severe. There is a potential for widespread
bleaching in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and some bleaching along the
western Pacific around Papua-New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan.
See the
NOAA
press release or the
experimental seasonal
bleaching outlook page for more details.
The list of our Coral Bleaching Virtual Stations has expended from its original 24 reef
sites to 57 reef sites in our near-real-time Google
Earth Coral Bleaching Monitoring product.
17 coral scientists from 8 nations, including NOAA Coral Reef Watch coordinator Mark Eakin, say
corals could begin to disappear in 50 to 75 years due to warming temperatures
and increasing ocean acidification caused by carbon dioxide emissions. The
findings of the GEF/World Bank group were published as the cover story in the peer-reviewed journal Science.
See the
NOAA press release for more details.
Our Virtual Station network is expanding! Thirty-six new stations, from Aruba to Zanzibar, are now
available on the
experimental products page. Time series charts and data, regional images,
and Satellite Bleaching Alert e-mails are available for these experimental stations.
The
time series data
of CRW operational twice-weekly near-real-time
SST, SST anomaly, Bleaching HotSpot, and Bleaching Degree Heating
Weeks for 24 selected reef sites (CRW's virtual stations) around
the globe are now available.
The OPeNDAP service that serves
our HDF data
for direct network link from
CoastWatch software
tool (CDAT)
has not been available due to a technical problem.
The time of availability remains to be determined.
The HDF data are continuously available via our FTP and HTTP servers.
Our operational twice-weekly near-real-time satellite coral
bleaching monitoring products are now updated during the mornings (U.S.
Eastern Time) of every Monday and Thursday. Click
here to see detail.
Version 0.2
of experimental satellite Doldrums monitoring product is now available
NOAA Coral Reef Watch Announcements
