Abstract
ReefTEMPs α is a coastal ocean observatory in the South, South West and West Pacific that provides long-term monitoring of climate change and its effects on the status of coral reefs and their resources. The network has been deploying sensors for temperature, pressure, conductivity, fluorescence and/or turbidity at 98 sites throughout the coastal zone of some 20 island states and territories since 1958. ReefTEMPS, labelled Service National (for) Observation (SNO), is part of the French research infrastructure "coastal ocean and nearshore observations" IR ILICO.