Marine heatwaves

ECJ Oliver, JA Benthuysen, S Darmaraki… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Ocean temperature variability is a fundamental component of the Earth's climate system, and
extremes in this variability affect the health of marine ecosystems around the world. The …

A review of the role of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in Atlantic multidecadal variability and associated climate impacts

R Zhang, R Sutton, G Danabasoglu… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
By synthesizing recent studies employing a wide range of approaches (modern
observations, paleo reconstructions, and climate model simulations), this paper provides a …

Marine heatwaves threaten global biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services

DA Smale, T Wernberg, ECJ Oliver, M Thomsen… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
The global ocean has warmed substantially over the past century, with far-reaching
implications for marine ecosystems. Concurrent with long-term persistent warming, discrete …

[HTML][HTML] Longer and more frequent marine heatwaves over the past century

ECJ Oliver, MG Donat, MT Burrows, PJ Moore… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Heatwaves are important climatic extremes in atmospheric and oceanic systems that can
have devastating and long-term impacts on ecosystems, with subsequent socioeconomic …

[HTML][HTML] SEAS5: the new ECMWF seasonal forecast system

SJ Johnson, TN Stockdale, L Ferranti… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
In this paper we describe SEAS5, ECMWF's fifth generation seasonal forecast system, which
became operational in November 2017. Compared to its predecessor, System 4, SEAS5 is a …

On the future zonal contrasts of equatorial Pacific climate: Perspectives from Observations, Simulations, and Theories

S Lee, M L'Heureux, AT Wittenberg, R Seager… - Npj Climate and …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in the zonal gradients of sea surface temperature (SST) across the
equatorial Pacific have major consequences for global climate. Therefore, accurate future …

Categorizing and naming marine heatwaves

AJ Hobday, ECJ Oliver, AS Gupta, JA Benthuysen… - Oceanography, 2018 - JSTOR
Considerable attention has been directed at understanding the consequences and impacts
of long-term anthropogenic climate change. Discrete, climatically extreme events such as …

Compound marine heatwaves and ocean acidity extremes

FA Burger, J Terhaar, TL Frölicher - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Compound MHW-OAX events, during which marine heatwaves (MHWs) co-occur with ocean
acidity extreme (OAX) events, can have larger impacts on marine ecosystems than the …

Six hundred years of South American tree rings reveal an increase in severe hydroclimatic events since mid-20th century

MS Morales, ER Cook, J Barichivich… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
South American (SA) societies are highly vulnerable to droughts and pluvials, but lack of
long-term climate observations severely limits our understanding of the global processes …

300 years of sclerosponge thermometry shows global warming has exceeded 1.5 C

MT McCulloch, A Winter, CE Sherman… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
Anthropogenic emissions drive global-scale warming yet the temperature increase relative
to pre-industrial levels is uncertain. Using 300 years of ocean mixed-layer temperature …