Warm Seas Lead to Extensive Coral Bleaching - related image preview

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Warm Seas Lead to Extensive Coral Bleaching

Two years of record global temperatures and a potent El Niño have led to extensive damage to coral reefs around the world, including the Great Barrier Reef.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using multi-satellite microwave sea surface temperature data from Remote Sensing Systems. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published May 19, 2016
Data acquired October 2015 - March 2016

Source:
GCOM-W1 > AMSR-2