Scott Heron¹, Blake Spady², Jessica Benthuysen³, James Gilmour³, Camille Grimaldi³, Derek Manzello⁴, Nicole Ryan³, Claire M Spillman⁵ and the Western Australian Coral Bleaching Group, (1)James Cook University, Physical Sciences, College of Science and Engineering, Townsville, QLD, Australia, (2)NOAA Coral Reef Watch - Global Science & Technology, Inc., Townsville, QLD, Australia, (3)Australian Institute of Marine Science, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia, (4)NOAA/NESDIS, Center for Satellite Applications and Research/Coral Reef Watch, College Park, United States, (5)Bureau of Meteorology, Docklands, VIC, Australia