… NOAA, in an attempt to use satellite data to accumulate in real-time the thermal stress that
corals experience, is using a metric referred to as Degree Heating Week (DHW), which has …

… Coral reef ecosystems and the services they provide sustain … Accumulation of greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere (… naturally heat tolerant corals can continue to improve their heat …

… effect caused by the accumulation of carbon dioxide and other … heat, with the top few metres
storing a similar amount of heat as the entire atmosphere (Houghton 2004). Additional heat …

… With the increasing frequency and severity of marine heatwaves, it has become critically
important to understand how the additional heat accumulation associated with marine …

… over the last 30 years, revealing the MHW hotspots over the coral reef zones, as well as
past heating trends. This method has, to the best of our knowledge, never been used to detect …

… Predictions for the future of coral reefs include the following: a) Some tropical corals may
be lost to local or global extinction, based on species-specific susceptibility to temperature …

… To date, our ability to gauge the vulnerability of coral reefs to global warming has been …
Relationship between observed bleaching severity and accumulated heat stress (degree heating …

… The reason is that currents produced by wave breaking sweep the water off the reef in a
shorter time so that there is less solar heating. The strength of this temperature inhomogeneity is …

… of reefs to accumulated heat stress, measured as degree … coral reef system and individual
coral tolerance to marine heatwave stress and bleaching. In the context of small coral reef …

… heat stress and outbreaks of coral diseases are less well understood. In this study, the effects
of accumulated heat … Beaver Reef, which is located in the central region of the Great Barrier …