Coral Bleaching Across Western Australia Coastline, 2010–11

Parks Australia provides a record of research on unprecedented mass coral bleaching across Western Australia during the 2010–11 summer. The event covered more than 12 degrees of latitude and 1200 kilometers of coastline due to anomalous ocean warming and storminess. This publication was previously available via the Australian Marine Parks Science Atlas.

Use Cases

• Analyze the spatial extent of coral bleaching based on the described 12° latitude and 1200 km coastline coverage.
• Study the correlation between large-scale ocean warming events and coral loss based on the described cause.
• Assess the impact of increased storminess on coral reefs during bleaching events as mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Covers a significant geographic scale of over 12° latitude and 1200 km of coastline.
• Documents a specific, temporally bounded event during the summer of 2010–11.
• Provided by an authoritative organization, Parks Australia.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Parks Australia

Time Range

2010–11

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-15 02:48:40.982579; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Western Australia coastline