NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) Products List
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
1. CoralTemp: (CRW's Daily Global 5km Satellite Sea Surface Temperature Dataset)
(version 3.1 [v3.1], 1985-present, released August 1, 2018)
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CoralTemp (introduction) Sea Surface Temperature (SST) |
Current Con- ditions |
Images (Global, Regional) |
Anim- ations |
Google Map |
Google Earth |
NetCDF Data |
Pixel Images |
2. Daily Global 5km Satellite Coral Bleaching Heat Stress Product Suite:
(v3.1, 1985-present, released August 1, 2018)
--- Including year-to-date, monthly, and annual composites; product climatologies.
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Near Real-Time and Archived Products (home page) |
Current Con- ditions |
Images (Global, Regional) |
Anim- ations |
Google Map |
Google Earth |
NetCDF Data |
Pixel Images |
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Bleaching Alert Area (7-day max) Bleaching alert status (maximum alert over 7 days) |
X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
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Bleaching Alert Area (single-day) Bleaching alert status (single day alert) |
X | X | -- | -- | -- | X | X |
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Coral Bleaching HotSpot Current heat stress (HotSpot) |
X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
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Degree Heating Week Accumulated heat stress (DHW) |
X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
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SST (CoralTemp) Sea Surface Temperature |
X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
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SST Anomaly Sea Surface Temperature anomalies |
X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
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7-Day SST Trend Sea Surface Temperature trend for last 7 days |
X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
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Composites (home page) Year-to-date, monthly, and annual composites of the v3.1 daily global 5km satellite products |
X | X | -- | -- | -- | X | X |
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Climatologies Monthly and Maximum Monthly Mean (MMM) climatologies of the daily global 5km products |
-- | -- | -- | -- | -- | X | X |
3. Regional Virtual Stations and Bleaching Alert Emails:
(v3.1, 1985-present, released July 31, 2019)
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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 |
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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 |
4. Four-Month Coral Bleaching Outlook: (updated weekly on Tuesdays)
(v5, 2011-present, released March 27, 2018)
--- Probabilistic, modeled subseasonal-to-seasonal bleaching heat stress outlook.
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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 |
5. Other Near Real-Time Products:
| 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 | -- | -- |
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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 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
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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 | -- | -- |
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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 | -- |
6. Historical Data Analyses:
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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 |
7. Model Simulations:
| 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 |
8. Research Products:
| 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 | -- |
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Downscaled climate model projections of coral bleaching conditions
(home page) 4-km resolution; released April 1, 2015 |
No | No | X | X | X |
9. Archive of Retired Products:
| 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.
Other Coral Reef Watch Resources
Last update: February 27, 2023.
