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Current bleaching conditions around the world using data from NOAA's Coral Reef Watch Program. A brief summary of the item is not available. Add a brief summary about the item.

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Coral reefs are one of the most diverse and ecologically important areas of the world. However, many reefs, are threatened by ocean temperatures that are increasingly becoming warmer than the coral animals' natural tolerance. According to NOAA, when water is too warm, corals will expel the algae (zooxanthellae) living in their tissues causing the coral to turn completely white. This is called coral bleaching. When a coral bleaches, it is not dead. Corals can survive a bleaching event, but they are under more stress and are subject to mortality.

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NOAA Coral Reef Watch program uses satellite data to provide current reef environmental conditions to quickly identify areas at risk for coral bleaching. The station data displayed in this map are derived from satellite based measurements of ocean temperature. These "virtual stations" are not actual buoys or in situ stations transmitting data, rather a spatial analyses for reef locations around the world are derived from 5 km resolution raster data. 

Each station has several variables: 
Alert Level: an index of the likelihood of coral bleaching, scaled from 0 (no heat stress) to 4 (coral mortality likely) based on the attributes below

Sea surface temperature: average temperature of the ocean surface derived from satellite measurements

Temperature anomaly: a comparison of the current surface temperature to the 30-year historical average

Hotspots: number of degrees above the coral's threshold tolerance

Degree Heating Weeks: accumulated thermal stress experienced by corals

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