[NOAA Coral Reef Watch Coral Bleaching Alert 20130401]
Summary of the bleaching alerts issued in this update for the NOAA
Coral Reef Watch (CRW) Virtual Stations subcribed to by
vanuatuclimatechange@gmail.com
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Pacific Ocean
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** Melanesia
-- Efate, Vanuatu (+) Bleaching Watch
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(+) and (-): indicating increase or decrease in bleaching thermal stress
level at a station from its previous stress level.
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Current stress levels and alerts for CRW Virtual Stations can be viewed at:
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/cb/EAS_vs/vs_summary_stress_current.txt
Detailed views of individual sites can be found using Google Earth:
http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/ge/products/CRWGE_CurrentProducts.kmz
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See below for detailed alert information for the stations listed above.
Note: An alert is issued only when a station experiences a change in
thermal stress level. For more information, see the description at the
the end of this message.
A complete list of the available CRW Virtual Stations can be viewed at:
http://coralreefwatch-satops.noaa.gov/VS/list_vs_group_latlon_201103.txt
For more information, please visit:
http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/vs/index.html