Fig. 1: Red Sea study areas and their warming characteristics.
From: Drivers of marine heatwaves in coral bleaching regions of the Red Sea
a Selected study areas of the Red Sea, where coral bleaching has been reported, between 2001 and 2015. Red dots indicate the coral bleaching spots within each site, according to Genevier et al.7. b Cumulative sum of daily temperature change averaged over summer MHW onsets for each region. Total positive temperature changes are indicated in red (warming) and negative ones in blue (cooling). c Average rate of summer MHW onset (see Hobday et al.60 for details of the Ronset calculation). Note, the temperature changes shown here represent an average over all the events identified separately from all the grid-points of a study area. Additionally, regions are ordered descending from north to south, while those in the west (east) of the Red Sea are indicated in black (blue) labels. Colours on the main map represent the bathymetric characteristics of the basin. Red lines separate the Red Sea into the north, central and south part of the basin.
