Coral Bleaching - Barbados

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

1. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 22.52 C on 31-Oct-2024
2. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 18.60 C on 03-Nov-2023
3. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 18.59 C on 05-Nov-2023
4. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 15.48 C on 26-Oct-2010
5. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 14.25 C on 10-Oct-2010
6. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 13.75 C on 02-Oct-2010
7. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 13.54 C on 31-Oct-2005
8. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 12.74 C on 23-Sep-2010
9. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 10.22 C on 09-Sep-2010
10. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 7.70 C on 13-Nov-2003
11. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 7.52 C on 14-Nov-2020
12. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 7.21 C on 21-Oct-2011
13. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.80 C on 15-Nov-2004
14. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.17 C on 19-Nov-2016
15. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.16 C on 05-Nov-2021
16. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.12 C on 23-Oct-1998
17. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.98 C on 02-Jan-2024
18. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.50 C on 04-Nov-2008
19. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.19 C on 18-Nov-2008
20. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.14 C on 12-Nov-2006

The ©Cumulative Damage Index caused by coral bleaching events (days when the DHW > 1C) over the past 40 years is 2548.

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