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You are at - Home | Research | Climate change and impact ________________________________________________________________________ Sea Temperatures AIMS has been recording sea temperature data since 1987. Sea temperature is the most important environmental variable governing the abundance and distribution of life in our coastal seas. Even on tropical coral reefs, sea temperature has a surprisingly large influence on what grows where. Reef corals, for example, have a very narrow range of thermal tolerance. Temperature tolerance in reef corals is as much about how long they spend at high temperatures as it is about how high temperatures get.
AIMS sea surface temperature data is also used in-house to calibrate temperature reconstructions from coral cores and satellite imagery, and also to better understand other biological processes on coral reefs such as coral growth and reproduction. AIMS monitors sea temperature using remote satellites as well
as in-situ temperature loggers. These instruments are now managed
by AIMS as part of its role in coordinating the Great Barrier
Reef Ocean Observing System (GBROOS) node of the nation-wide
November 7, 2008
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