Communications Earth & Environment (Jun 2022)

Recent marine heatwaves in the North Pacific warming pool can be attributed to rising atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases

  • Armineh Barkhordarian,
  • David Marcolino Nielsen,
  • Johanna Baehr

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00461-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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A multi-year marine heat wave in the northeast Pacific warming pool, as the one that occurred from 2019 to 2021, would almost certainly not have occurred in the absence of anthropogenic global warming, according to a climate model-based attribution study.