Coral Bleaching - Aruba

Corals around Aruba have experienced elevated temperatures 20 times in the past 41 years.

1. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 19.34 C on 16-Nov-2023
2. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 18.79 C on 31-Oct-2024
3. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 18.72 C on 01-Nov-2010
4. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 18.72 C on 06-Nov-2010
5. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 18.72 C on 29-Nov-2023
6. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 12.06 C on 18-Nov-2020
7. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 11.02 C on 02-Jan-2024
8. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 10.26 C on 20-Nov-2022
9. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 9.72 C on 12-Nov-2011
10. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 8.92 C on 31-Oct-2008
11. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 8.78 C on 18-Nov-2005
12. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 8.32 C on 06-Dec-2003
13. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.79 C on 07-Dec-2016
14. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.24 C on 16-Nov-2019
15. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.97 C on 09-Nov-2017
16. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.86 C on 27-Oct-1995
17. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.46 C on 13-Nov-1999
18. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.28 C on 30-Nov-1999
19. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.24 C on 28-Nov-2012
20. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.09 C on 15-Nov-2012

The ©Cumulative Damage Index caused by coral bleaching events (days when the DHW > 1C) over the past 40 years is 2641.

The record of Degree Heating Weeks (DHW) over the past 40 years

The ©Cumulative Damage Index caused by coral bleaching events (days exceeding DHW > 1) over the past 40 years