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 …

Keeping pace with marine heatwaves

NJ Holbrook, A Sen Gupta, ECJ Oliver… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are prolonged extreme oceanic warm water events. They can
have devastating impacts on marine ecosystems—for example, causing mass coral …

[HTML][HTML] Drivers and impacts of the most extreme marine heatwave events

A Sen Gupta, M Thomsen, JA Benthuysen… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Prolonged high-temperature extreme events in the ocean, marine heatwaves, can have
severe and long-lasting impacts on marine ecosystems, fisheries and associated services …

[HTML][HTML] Atmospheric blocking and weather extremes over the Euro-Atlantic sector–a review

LA Kautz, O Martius, S Pfahl, JG Pinto… - Weather and climate …, 2022 - wcd.copernicus.org
The physical understanding and timely prediction of extreme weather events are of
enormous importance to society due to their associated impacts. In this article, we highlight …

[HTML][HTML] A global assessment of marine heatwaves and their drivers

NJ Holbrook, HA Scannell, A Sen Gupta… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) can cause devastating impacts to marine life. Despite the
serious consequences of MHWs, our understanding of their drivers is largely based on …

[HTML][HTML] Bottom marine heatwaves along the continental shelves of North America

DJ Amaya, MG Jacox, MA Alexander, JD Scott… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Recently, there has been substantial effort to understand the fundamental characteristics of
warm ocean temperature extremes—known as marine heatwaves (MHWs). However, MHW …

[HTML][HTML] The unprecedented 2015/16 Tasman Sea marine heatwave

ECJ Oliver, JA Benthuysen, NL Bindoff… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract The Tasman Sea off southeast Australia exhibited its longest and most intense
marine heatwave ever recorded in 2015/16. Here we report on several inter-related aspects …

[HTML][HTML] Vertical structures of marine heatwaves

Y Zhang, Y Du, M Feng, AJ Hobday - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
A marine heatwave (MHW) is typically defined as an anomalous warm event in the surface
ocean, with wide-ranging impacts on marine and socio-economic systems. The surface …

Ocean regime shift is driving collapse of the North Atlantic right whale population

EL Meyer-Gutbrod, CH Greene, KTA Davies, DG Johns - Oceanography, 2021 - JSTOR
Ocean warming linked to anthropogenic climate change is impacting the ecology of marine
species around the world. In 2010, the Gulf of Maine and Scotian Shelf regions of the …

Projected sea surface temperatures over the 21st century: Changes in the mean, variability and extremes for large marine ecosystem regions of Northern Oceans

MA Alexander, JD Scott, KD Friedland, KE Mills… - Elem Sci …, 2018 - online.ucpress.edu
Global climate models were used to assess changes in the mean, variability and extreme
sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in northern oceans with a focus on large marine …