[Coral-List] Bleaching - Central Pacific!!
Alan E Strong
Alan.E.Strong at noaa.gov
Wed Nov 24 15:15:34 EST 2004
Bleaching in Progress!!
KIRIBATI
We have made a comparison of this year's Degree Heating Week
accumulations and compared them with 2002 over the Central Pacific. In
2002 an excessive amount of thermal stress was located on the eastern
side of the Date Line around Howland Baker...this year that region of
high thermal accumulations is perched right on the Equator and
immediately west of the Date line and east of the Kingsmill
group...close to Tarawa!
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/data2/dhwp.11.23.2004.gif
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/data2/dhwp.11.22.2002.gif
Let's hope it dissipates soon....
Regards,
Al
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