Arabian Gulf Bleaching
Prof Alan E Strong
strong at nadn.navy.mil
Wed Oct 2 09:34:35 EDT 1996
Roger Uwate -
Saw your note 23 Sep on bleaching off Bahrain due to SSTs some 4 deg C
higher than last year during July-August. We are developing new,
twice-weekly, hi-res SST anomaly charts to aid in the monitoring for areas
of high temperature stress that might lead to coral reef bleaching.
New Climatology/Anomaly:
http://psbsgi1.nesdis.noaa.gov:8080/PSB/EPS/SST/climo.html
When we were spinning this new product up the end of July, as I now look
back, SSTs during much of Aug were several degrees above climatology in
the Arabian Sea. Past data have shown that when SSTs exceed the max
monthly climatology by 1 deg C, bleaching can be expected....paper at
recent Panama ICRS...it looks like you saw evidence of that.
Thanks for your report. Hope the reef have recovered with cooling temps
this fall.
Cheers,
Al Strong
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Alan E. Strong
Physical Scientist/Oceanographer Adj. Asst. Professor
NOAA/NESDIS/ORA/ORAD -- E/RA3 US Naval Academy
NOAA Science Center -- RM 711 Oceanography Department
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