Coral bleaching futures : downscaled projections of bleaching conditions for the world's coral reefs, implications of climate policy and management responses / Ruben van Hooidonk, Jeffrey Maynard, Jerker Tamelander, Jamison Gove, Gabby Ahmadia, Laurie Raymundo, Gareth Williams, Scott Heron, Dieter Tracey, Britt Parker, Serge Planes.
"Increasingly frequent severe coral bleaching is among the greatest threats to coral reefs posed by climate change. Global climate models (GCMs) project great spatial variation in the timing of annual severe bleaching (ASB) conditions; a point at which re...
Monitoring Ocean Acidification from Space in the Pacific
Purpose/Need To manage and conserve coral reefs effectively we need to establish base lines describing current environmental variables, monitor those conditions and accurately project future changes. Baselines and trends in ocean acidification, although o...
Modeling reef futures using a high resolution modular ocean model
Purpose/Need To effectively manage coral reefs under stress from climate change, accurate projections of coral bleaching and ocean acidification are needed. Currently global climate models operate on large spatial scales, often with resolutions coarser th...
Downscaled projections of Sea Surface Temperatures and Degree Heating Weeks in the wider Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico
Projections of the onset of annual coral bleaching conditions in the Caribbean under Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5 are produced using an ensemble of 33 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase-5 models via dynamical downscaling. A high...
Tolerance to thermal stress and dominant symbiont community
Reef building corals are in a mutualistic symbiosis with single-celled dinoflaggelates of the genus Symbiodinium. Several different clades of Symbiodinium associate with coral,...with each clade having unique physiological characteristics that enable the ...
Designating Spatial Priorities for Marine Biodiversity Conservation in the Coral Triangle
Surface drifting buoys, or drifters, are used in oceanographic and climate research, oil spill tracking, weather forecasting, search and rescue operations, calibration and validation of velocities from high-frequency radar and from altimeters, iceberg tra...
Internal tides can provide thermal refugia that will buffer some coral reefs from future global warming
Observations show ocean temperatures are rising due to climate change, resulting in a fivefold increase in the incidence of regional-scale coral bleaching events since the 1980s; analyses based on global climate models forecast bleaching will become an an...
Modeling contribution to IPCC 6th Assessment Report WG II
To project reef futures using the new generation of GCMs and present these results in the WG II report I will:1) Confer with lead authors to design and plan analysis.2) Acquire new model data (OA and SST for what will be available (this will not be the fu...
U.S. climate impact summaries with new IPCC CMIP6 data
To aid conservation, restoration and efforts to protect coral reefs we produce updated projections of coral reef futures. We will use CMIP6 data to project coral bleaching globally at native model scale (markedly higher than before, 1/4ยบ), produce maps, c...
Local-scale projections of coral reef futures and implications of the Paris Agreement
Increasingly frequent severe coral bleaching is among the greatest threats to coral reefs posed by climate change. Global climate models (GCMs) project great spatial variation in the timing of annual severe bleaching (ASB) conditions; a point at which ree...
Coral bleaching futures : downscaled projections of bleaching conditions for the world's coral reefs, implications of climate policy and management responses / Ruben van Hooidonk, Jeffrey Maynard, Jerker Tamelander, Jamison Gove, Gabby Ahmadia, Laurie Raymundo, Gareth Williams, Scott Heron, Dieter Tracey, Britt Parker, Serge Planes.
Downscaled projections of Sea Surface Temperatures and Degree Heating Weeks in the wider Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico