NOAA Coral Reef Watch is conducting research and development on a new product that estimates the risk of an outbreak of coral disease. The Coral Disease Outbreak Risk is a regional experimental product, currently serving data for the Great Barrier Reef an...

"The Satellite Oceanography and Climatology Division (SOCD) provides the research and development of remote sensing data on the world's oceans, and calibrates instruments, verifies the data, and creates products to meet the needs of users for satellite da...

"The Marine Ecosystems Branch (MEB), within the Satellite Oceanography and Climatology Division performs research and product development related to marine ecosystems and marine climate. Topics include coral reefs, sea and lake ice, sea surface temperatur...

"The Ocean Sensors Branch (OSB) conducts research using satellite and in-situ observations to infer various oceanic, coastal, climatic, and marine weather processes."

The purpose of these bleaching tutorial modules is to introduce some tools used to pinpoint areas around the world where corals are presently at risk for bleaching.

Coral data at the World Data Center consist of stable isotope and trace metal analyses from corals located around the globe. Corals serve as proxies of upper ocean environment, such as sea surface temperature and salinity, over the past several centuries.

The NODC manages the world's largest collection of publicly available oceanographic data. NODC holdings include in situ and remotely sensed physical, chemical, and biological oceanographic data from coastal and deep ocean areas. These were originally coll...

The Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) is the science arm of the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS), which acquires and manages the nation's operational Earth-observing satellites. NESDIS provides da...

Coral bleaching is considered a long term threat to the health of corals. Coral bleaching events have been noted in areas where the sea surface temperature (SST) exceeds the climatological maximum for that region by 1 degree C or more. Observations are gi...

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,...