Live Chart of Reef Water Temperature , Wind and Tide
These charts are principally to monitor potential coral reef bleaching conditions,
and hence only update automatically December till March. For queries please contact dennis.stanley@uwa.edu.au
These charts help to highlight the effect recent weather has on the reef temperature,
through the role that tides & recent wind have on upper ocean turbulence and mixing
Updated Daily using data from
- AIMS Agincourt reef weather station
- AIMS Arlington reef logger data
- Jtide tidal modeling for Green Island
- Forecast; NOAA Global Forecast System ; obtained from NOMADS data servers
- Cross Section; BOM oceanMAPS 3.3 model output ; obtained from BOM THREDDS data server
Red dots signify occurrence of daily wind speed less than 3m/s
Provisional
What about years in the past ?
- 2022/23; Non Bleaching year
- 2021/22; Bleaching year ; onset central GBR around 11th March
- 2020/21 Non Bleaching year
- 2019/20 Bleaching year (widespread onset around 3 march )
- 2018/19 Non Bleaching year
- 2017/18 Non Bleaching year
- 2016/17 Bleaching year central and northern GBR onset minor Jan18 & Feb 20, major mid March(Moore Reef)
- 2015/16 Bleaching year central and northern GBR onset ??? anyone have detailed records