Implications of Multi-Year Global Coral Bleaching on a 1.5°C World

C. Mark Eakin1, Jacqueline L De La Cour2,3, Erick Francis Geiger1,3, Andrea M Gomez4,5, Scott F Heron6, Ove Hoegh-guldberg7,8, Gang Liu1,2, Ben Marsh6,9, William J Skirving6, Alan E Strong5 and Kyle Tirak1,2, (1)NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Coral Reef Watch, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Global Science & Technology, Inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NOAA Coral Reef Watch-UMD_CICS, College Park, MD, United States, (4)City University of New York, Ecosystem Science Lab and NOAA-CREST, New York, NY, United States, (5)NOAA Coral Reef Watch, College Park, MD, United States, (6)NOAA Coral Reef Watch-ReefSense, Townsville, Australia, (7)University of Queensland, Global Change Institute, St. Lucia, Australia, (8)University of Queensland, School of Biological Sciences, St. Lucia, Australia, (9)University of Queensland, School of Biological Sciences, St Lucia, Australia