The ReefTemp Next Generation Website was an operational high-resolution daily satellite sea surface temperature (SST) monitoring tool for the Great Barrier Reef, originally available at a URL of http://www.bom.gov.au/environment/activities/reeftemp/reeftemp.shtml.
It was created and hosted by the Bureau of Meteorology, launched in October 2013, and used high-resolution SST data produced by the Intergrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) to produce maps of:
- Daily Sea Surface Temperature (SST)
- SST Anomalies (deviation from average SST)
- Degree Heating Days (thermal stress accumulation over summer)
- Mean Positive Summer Anomaly (Average thermal stress over summer)
These data products and maps were used on a daily to weekly basis year-round by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) to manage coral bleaching risk on the reef.
The ReefTemp Next Generation website was decommissioned in 2024 when the Bureau of Meteorology stepped back from active participation in the eReefs collaboration, but the IMOS SST data remains freely available online, and is available for visualisation in the eReefs Data Explorer (search for layers with names including ‘GHRSST’).
Archived information about ReefTemp Next Generation: