Harmful Algal Bloom Forecasts In the Gulf of Mexico, some harmful algal blooms are caused by the microscopic algae species Karenia brevis, commonly called red tide. Karenia brevis blooms can ...

Our HAB forecasts alert coastal managers to blooms before they cause serious damage. Short-term (once or twiceweekly) forecasts identify which blooms are potentially harmful, where they are, how big they ...

Harmful Algal Bloom Monitoring SystemAlgal Blooms from Satellite for Southwest FloridaKarenia brevis is either not present or at background levels in water samples, so blooms are unlikely to be Karenia ...

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) occur when algae—simple plants that live in the sea and freshwater—grow out of control and sometimes produce toxins harmful to people and animals. Only a small ...

Harmful Algal Bloom ForecastsNOAA provides forecasts for seasonal blooms of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) in Lake Erie, typically from July to October when warmer water creates favorable bloom conditions. Western Lake ...

Forecast of the potential for mixing over at least the next 96 hours, to determine whether the majority of the bloom is at the surface,subsurface, or mixed throughout the water ...

Current Lake Erie Sentinel-3 a and b Composited Satellite Imagery from the Ocean and Land Color Imager (OLCI) as of 2023-10-31 showing bloom location and extent. Image credit: The images ...