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Coral bleaching data from Bleachwatch in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary from 2015-05-31 to 2015-11-03 (NCEI Accession 0140822)

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: January 29, 2026 | Last Modified: 2016-02-24T00:00:00.000+00:00
The BleachWatch data form has been designed to minimize the effort required by observers to report on coral condition from throughout the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. BleachWatch observers are requested to provide their contact information, as well as the type of community group that describes them. Site information includes the location name, GPS coordinates, water depth, reef zone that describes the site (hardbottom, patch reef, mid-channel reef, deep reef, or bank reef), as well as basic environmental conditions such as wind speed and air temperature, cloud cover, and water temperature at both the surface and at depth. Basic bleaching observations include the severity of bleaching observed overall at the site (no bleaching, paling, bleached only on the upper surface, completely bleached), the growth forms of corals affected (brain, branching, fleshy, flower/cup, leaf/plate/sheet, or mound/boulder), the percent of overall coral cover at the site affected, and the depth range where bleaching is observed. Finally, observers are asked to note bleaching in other species of interest, including fire coral, zooanthids, and gorgonians, as well as any other observations of coral disease or mortality that may be occurring at the site. After exiting the water, observers simply enter these observations on the report form provided. Observers are asked to report as regularly as possible, and are made to understand that observations of no bleaching present are equally as important.

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  • Coral Bleaching Early Warning Network: Current Conditions Report #20150602

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  • Coral Bleaching Early Warning Network: Current Conditions Report #20150717

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  • Coral Bleaching Early Warning Network: Current Conditions Report #20150803

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0140822 AIR TEMPERATURE cloud amount/frequency CORAL - BLEACHING DEPTH - OBSERVATION HABITAT - BENTHIC SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE WATER TEMPERATURE WIND SPEED thermometer visual estimate visual observation in situ Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) CORAL REEF STUDIES Coastal Waters of Florida Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Gulf of Mexico North Atlantic Ocean oceanography DOC/NOAA/NOS/NMS > National Marine Sanctuaries, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce 430 Florida Keys BleachWatch EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD FREQUENCY EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > COASTAL PROCESSES > CORAL REEFS > CORAL BLEACHING EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE THERMOMETERS > THERMOMETERS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS > VISUAL OBSERVATIONS OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO GHXBKP

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issued 2016-01-15T00:00:00.000+00:00
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  "AIR TEMPERATURE",
  "cloud amount/frequency",
  "CORAL - BLEACHING",
  "DEPTH - OBSERVATION",
  "HABITAT - BENTHIC",
  "SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE",
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  "WIND SPEED",
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  "in situ",
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  "Coastal Waters of Florida",
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spatial -80.09433,24.44369,-83.03599,25.62397
temporal 2015-05-31T00:00:00+00:00/2015-11-03T00:00:00+00:00
title Coral bleaching data from Bleachwatch in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary from 2015-05-31 to 2015-11-03 (NCEI Accession 0140822)

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