Coral Bleaching - Bonaire

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

1. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 20.46 C on 31-Oct-2024
2. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 19.07 C on 16-Nov-2023
3. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 19.04 C on 14-Nov-2023
4. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 18.86 C on 11-Nov-2023
5. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 17.12 C on 11-Nov-2010
6. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 16.66 C on 02-Nov-2010
7. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 10.81 C on 25-Nov-2020
8. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 9.33 C on 02-Jan-2024
9. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 8.45 C on 06-Nov-2022
10. Extreme stress - Severe Bleaching and Significant Mortality: DHW of 8.44 C on 13-Nov-2008
11. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 7.11 C on 03-Nov-2017
12. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 7.09 C on 09-Nov-2005
13. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.59 C on 27-Nov-2003
14. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 6.08 C on 03-Dec-2019
15. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.44 C on 17-Nov-2012
16. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.27 C on 27-Nov-2016
17. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 5.23 C on 02-Nov-1995
18. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.71 C on 28-Oct-2011
19. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.70 C on 26-Nov-2004
20. Major stress - Bleaching: DHW of 4.67 C on 29-Nov-1999

The ©Cumulative Damage Index caused by coral bleaching events (days when the DHW > 1C) over the past 40 years is 2784.

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