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 Environmental Products Area of the Products Systems Branch of the Information Processing Division is responsible for a number of Environmental Datasets and Images derived from the NOAA polar orbiting satellites. Among the offerings are sea surface tem...

OSPO manages and directs the operation of the central ground facilities which ingest, process, and distribute environmental satellite data and derived products to domestic and foreign users.

This Coral Bleaching Virtual Stations web page (formerly known as the Tropical Ocean Coral Bleaching Indices web page) is designed by NOAA Coral Reef Watch to provide near-real-time information on thermal stress that induces coral bleaching for 24 selecte...