In addition to being accessible from the left-hand navigation bar, NOAA Coral Reef Watch's (CRW) decision support products for coral reef ecosystem management can be accessed from the tables and links below.
Note: If you are looking for a particular CRW product but cannot locate it below, or if you have an inquiry about any of our products or services, please contact us at coralreefwatch@noaa.gov.
Table of Contents
- CoralTemp
- Daily Global 5km Satellite Coral Bleaching Heat Stress Product Suite
- Regional Virtual Stations and Bleaching Alert Emails
- Four-Month Coral Bleaching Outlook
- Other Near Real-Time Products
- Historical Data Analyses -- Thermal History
- Model Simulations -- Laval Connectivity
- Research Products
- Archive of Retired Products -- Legacy Twice-Weekly 50km Bleaching Heat Stress Product Suite
- Other information
(version 3.1 [v3.1], 1985-present, released August 1, 2018)
CoralTemp (introduction) Sea Surface Temperature (SST) |
Current Con- ditions |
Images (Global, Regional) |
Anim- ations |
Google Map |
Google Earth |
NetCDF Data |
Pixel Images |
(v3.1, 1985-present, released August 1, 2018)
--- Including year-to-date, monthly, and annual composites; product climatologies.
Near Real-Time and Archived Products (home page) |
Current Con- ditions |
Images (Global, Regional) |
Anim- ations |
Google Map |
Google Earth |
NetCDF Data |
Pixel Images |
Bleaching Alert Area (7-day max) Bleaching alert status (maximum alert over 7 days) |
X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Bleaching Alert Area (single-day) Bleaching alert status (single day alert) |
X | X | -- | -- | -- | X | X |
Coral Bleaching HotSpot Current heat stress (HotSpot) |
X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Degree Heating Week Accumulated heat stress (DHW) |
X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
SST (CoralTemp) Sea Surface Temperature |
X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
SST Anomaly Sea Surface Temperature anomalies |
X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
7-Day SST Trend Sea Surface Temperature trend for last 7 days |
X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Composites (home page) Year-to-date, monthly, and annual composites of the v3.1 daily global 5km satellite products |
X | X | -- | -- | -- | X | X |
Climatologies Monthly and Maximum Monthly Mean (MMM) climatologies of the daily global 5km products |
-- | -- | -- | -- | -- | X | X |
(v3.1, 1985-present, released July 31, 2019)
Regional Virtual Stations (5km) (home page) 214 satellite-based regional coral reef sites |
Current Stress Levels |
Stations List |
Google Map |
Google Earth |
Gauges |
Maps & Images |
Time Series Graphs |
Time Series Data |
Satellite Bleaching Alert Email System
(home page) Automated for 214 Regional Virtual Stations |
Current Stress Levels |
Stations List |
Stations on Map |
Intro |
Sample |
Sub- scribe |
Unsub- scribe |
Contact Us |
(v5, 2011-present, released March 27, 2018)
--- Probabilistic, modeled subseasonal-to-seasonal bleaching heat stress outlook.
Four-Month Coral Bleaching Outlook (home page) Four-month composites & individual weekly outlooks |
Latest Outlook |
Images (Global, Regional) |
Anim- ations |
Google Map |
NetCDF Data |
Pixel Images |
Archive |
Current Con- ditions |
Image Archive |
Anim- ations |
Google Earth |
NetCDF Data Archive |
Time Series Data |
E-mail Alerts |
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Marine Heatwave Watch (v1.0.1) (home) -- 1985-present; released September 21, 2021 Daily global and regional 5km maps identifying areas of prolonged, anomalously high SST |
X | X | -- | -- | X | -- | -- |
Coral Disease Outbreak Risk (v2) (home) -- 1985-present; released June 11, 2019 Disease outbreak risk maps (Hawaii and Australia's Great Barrier Reef) |
X | X | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Light Stress Damage (v0.7) (home) *** currently on-hold (source data issues) *** -- 2014-2020, released April 2017 Light & temperature stress for corals (Caribbean and Eastern Pacific) |
X | X | -- | -- | X | -- | -- |
Ocean Color (v1.0) (home) -- 2012-present; released May 2018 Chlorophyll-a and Kd(490) monitoring at 750m from VIIRS satellite (Hawaii and Puerto Rico) |
X | X | -- | -- | X | X | -- |
Thermal History (v3.3) (home page) 1985-2022; released February 27, 2023; updated annually |
Images | NetCDF Data |
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Click here for a complete list of product metrics. |
X | X |
Real-time Update |
Scheduled Update |
Images | NetCDF Data |
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Larval Connectivity (home page) Potential connectivity of larvae among reefs/atolls (Hawaii/Johnston Atoll and Florida) |
No | No | X | X |
Real-time Update |
Scheduled Update |
Images | Google Earth |
NetCDF Data |
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Projections of Coral Bleaching and Ocean Acidification for Coral Reef Areas
(home page) 1° resolution; released October 21, 2013 |
No | No | -- | X | -- |
Downscaled climate model projections of coral bleaching conditions
(home page) 4-km resolution; released April 1, 2015 |
No | No | X | X | X |
Twice-weekly Global 50km Satellite Coral Bleaching Heat Stress Data and Products |
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For additional technical details about CRW's next-generation daily global 5km satellite products, see Skirving et al.
2020; Liu et al.
2017 and
2014; and Heron et al.
2016 and
2015.
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Click here to access CRW's 5km methodology web page, detailing our v3.1
daily global 5km satellite products, climatologies, composites, animations, and data.
- Click here to access CRW's 5km tutorial about coral reefs, coral bleaching, satellite remote sensing of the marine environment, and our daily global and regional 5km satellite products.
Last update: February 27, 2023.