Coral Reef Temperature Anomaly Database (CoRTAD)

2008

The Coral Reef Temperature Anomaly Database (CoRTAD) was developed by the National Oceanographic Data Center in partnership with the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. The CoRTAD development was funded by the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, and the database uses Pathfinder SSTs to quantify thermal stress patterns on the world's coral reefs since 1985. The CoRTAD contains a collection of sea surface temperature (SST) and related thermal stress metrics, developed specifically for coral reef ecosystem applications but relevant to other ecosystems as well. The CoRTAD contains global, approximately 4 km resolution SST data on a weekly time scale from 1985 through 2005.

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