"Using models to inform the possible future of coral reefs can happen on many scales. At the seasonal timescale, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch (CRW) and National Centers for Environment Prediction (NCEP) rece...

"Coral reefs are highly vulnerable to bleaching under elevated temperature. Since 2002, NOAA Coral Reef Watch has used a bleaching threshold based on global sea surface temperatures to provide operational bleaching warnings. Recent studies suggest that mo...