cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
type: software
authors:
  - family-names: Römer
    given-names: Johann
    affiliation: "MOR Research Collective"
title: "coral-reef-utac"
version: "1.3.0"
date-released: "2026-09-02"
url: "https://github.com/GenesisAeon/coral-reef-utac"
repository-code: "https://github.com/GenesisAeon/coral-reef-utac"
license: MIT
abstract: "NOAA Coral Reef Watch's real, official Degree Heating Week (DHW) coral-bleaching threshold system (0-20C-weeks, 5 alert levels), the real escalating series of four documented global bleaching events (Hughes et al. 2017/2018, NOAA 2024: 21% -> 37% -> 68% -> 83.7% of reef area affected), a real thermal-acidification synergy (Guillermic et al. 2021: heat disables corals' acidification-coping mechanism), and Walker et al. 2023 (the honesty check: bleaching resistance varies by genotype with real fitness tradeoffs). Deliberately no UTAC/CREP/AFET bridge and no invented Gamma value -- see DISCLAIMER.md. GenesisAeon P114."
keywords:
  - GenesisAeon
  - P114
  - climate
  - coral-reef
  - ocean
  - bleaching
  - open-science
references:
  - type: article
    title: "Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals"
    authors:
      - name: "Hughes, T.P."
      - name: "Kerry, J.T."
      - name: "Alvarez-Noriega, M."
    year: 2017
    journal: "Nature"
    volume: 543
    start: 373
    doi: "10.1038/nature21707"
  - type: article
    title: "Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene"
    authors:
      - name: "Hughes, T.P."
      - name: "Anderson, K.D."
      - name: "Connolly, S.R."
    year: 2018
    journal: "Science"
    volume: 359
    issue: 6371
    start: 80
    doi: "10.1126/science.aan8048"
  - type: article
    title: "Thermal stress reduces pocilloporid coral resilience to ocean acidification by impairing control over calcifying fluid chemistry"
    authors:
      - name: "Guillermic, M."
    year: 2021
    journal: "Science Advances"
    volume: 7
    issue: 2
    doi: "10.1126/sciadv.aba9958"
  - type: article
    title: "Coral bleaching resistance variation is linked to differential mortality and skeletal growth during recovery"
    authors:
      - name: "Walker, N.S."
      - name: "Nestor, V."
      - name: "Golbuu, Y."
      - name: "Palumbi, S.R."
    year: 2023
    journal: "Evolutionary Applications"
    volume: 16
    issue: 3
    start: 755
    doi: "10.1111/eva.13500"
  - type: report
    title: "Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2025"
    authors:
      - name: "Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network"
      - name: "International Coral Reef Initiative"
    year: 2026
    doi: "10.59387/LFPR6347"