[Coral-List] Thermal Stress Records Broken - Eastern Caribbean
Alan E Strong
Alan.E.Strong at noaa.gov
Wed Oct 5 12:22:52 EDT 2005
Caribbean Update:
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/data2/dhwwnc.gif
Our Degree Heating Weeks product for Oct 4 continues to show an
escalation of thermal stress around Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Two more of our Bleaching Indices sites, PR & USVI, have had their
previous record DHWs eclipsed this year [as was the case earlier for
Sombrero Key) with Puerto Rico showing accumulations of 7.0 (DHW) and
USVI reaching 7.5 this week. Both of these sites had previous record
DHWs in 1999 and 1998, respectively.
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/CB_indices/coral_bleaching_indices.html
regards,
Al Strong
Coral Reef Watch
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