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The development of the CoralTemp sea surface temperature (SST) dataset has allowed CRW to produce the Coral Bleaching Heat Stress product suite with climatologies and daily SST measurements from within the same SST dataset, significantly improving data quality. Previously, the Monthly Mean (MM) SST and Maximum Monthly Mean (MMM) SST climatologies were derived using a different dataset from the near real-time SST. Here we provide an up-to-date description of how each product within the Coral Reef Watch Coral Bleaching Heat Stress product suite version 3.1 is derived, including descriptions of the MM, MMM, SST Anomaly, Coral Bleaching HotSpot and Degree Heating Week (DHW) products.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12233856","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,25]],"date-time":"2020-11-25T08:59:15Z","timestamp":1606294755000},"page":"3856","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":221,"title":["CoralTemp and the Coral Reef Watch Coral Bleaching Heat Stress Product Suite Version 3.1"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"William","family":"Skirving","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Coral Reef Watch, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, College Park, MD 20740, USA"},{"name":"ReefSense Pty, Ltd., P.O. 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