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

1. AIMS Agincourt reef weather station
2. AIMS Arlington reef logger data
3. Jtide tidal modeling for Green Island
4. Forecast; NOAA Global Forecast System ; obtained from NOMADS data servers
5. 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 ?

1. 2022/23; Non Bleaching year

2. 2021/22; Bleaching year ; onset central GBR around 11th March

3. 2020/21 Non Bleaching year

4. 2019/20 Bleaching year (widespread onset around 3 march )

5. 2018/19 Non Bleaching year

6. 2017/18 Non Bleaching year

7. 2016/17 Bleaching year central and northern GBR onset minor Jan18 & Feb 20, major mid March(Moore Reef)

8. 2015/16 Bleaching year central and northern GBR onset ??? anyone have detailed records