Assessing the potential for tropical cyclone induced sea surface cooling to reduce thermal stress on the world's coral reefs

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Carrigan, A D ^a,b   Puotinen, M L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BLEACHING; CLEANING; DROPS; HURRICANES; REEFS; STORMS; THERMAL STRESS;

CORAL REEF; DATA SETS; GLOBAL SCALE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEA SURFACES; SPATIAL SCALE; TEMPORAL SCALE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; UPPER OCEAN;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

BLEACHING; COOLING; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FUTURE PROSPECT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; UPPER OCEAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 82955173774     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049722     Document Type: Article

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