Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Longer and more frequent marine heatwaves over the past century

  • Eric C. J. Oliver,
  • Markus G. Donat,
  • Michael T. Burrows,
  • Pippa J. Moore,
  • Dan A. Smale,
  • Lisa V. Alexander,
  • Jessica A. Benthuysen,
  • Ming Feng,
  • Alex Sen Gupta,
  • Alistair J. Hobday,
  • Neil J. Holbrook,
  • Sarah E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick,
  • Hillary A. Scannell,
  • Sandra C. Straub,
  • Thomas Wernberg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03732-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Marine heatwaves are climatic extremes with devastating and long-term impacts on marine ecosystems, fisheries and aquaculture. Here the authors use a range of ocean temperature observations to identify significant increases in marine heatwaves over the past century.