Atmospheric forcing intensifies the effects of regional ocean warming on reef-scale temperature anomalies during a coral bleaching event

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4600-4616

  Zhang, Zhenlin ^a   Falter, James ^a   Lowe, Ryan ^a   Ivey, Greg ^a   McCulloch, Malcolm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

atmospheric forcing; coral bleaching; degree heating weeks; reef circulation; reef temperature; sea surface temperature; thermal stress

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING; CLEANING; HEAT FLUX; LAKES; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; REEFS; THERMAL STRESS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CORAL BLEACHING; DEGREE HEATING WEEKS; EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS; REGIONAL OCEAN MODELING SYSTEM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TEMPERATURE ELEVATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CIRCULATION MODELING; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCE; LAGOON; REEF FORMATION; RESIDENCE TIME; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE MODELING;

AUSTRALIA; NINGALOO REEF; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84887062558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20338     Document Type: Article

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