Climate change, tropical fisheries and prospects for sustainable development

VWY Lam, EH Allison, JD Bell, J Blythe… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Tropical fisheries substantially contribute to the well-being of societies in both the tropics
and the extratropics, the latter through 'telecoupling'—linkages between distant human …

Phytoplankton dynamics in a changing Arctic Ocean

M Ardyna, KR Arrigo - Nature Climate Change, 2020‏ - nature.com
Abstract Changes in the Arctic atmosphere, cryosphere and Ocean are drastically altering
the dynamics of phytoplankton, the base of marine ecosystems. This Review addresses four …

The GFDL Earth System Model version 4.1 (GFDL‐ESM 4.1): Overall coupled model description and simulation characteristics

JP Dunne, LW Horowitz, AJ Adcroft… - Journal of Advances …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
We describe the baseline coupled model configuration and simulation characteristics of
GFDL's Earth System Model Version 4.1 (ESM4. 1), which builds on component and coupled …

Future phytoplankton diversity in a changing climate

SA Henson, BB Cael, SR Allen, S Dutkiewicz - Nature communications, 2021‏ - nature.com
The future response of marine ecosystem diversity to continued anthropogenic forcing is
poorly constrained. Phytoplankton are a diverse set of organisms that form the base of the …

Changing ocean, marine ecosystems, and dependent communities

NL Bindoff, WWL Cheung, JG Kairo, J Arístegui… - 2019‏ - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

Marine heatwaves under global warming

TL Frölicher, EM Fischer, N Gruber - Nature, 2018‏ - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are periods of extreme warm sea surface temperature that
persist for days to months 1 and can extend up to thousands of kilometres 2. Some of the …

Impacts of historical warming on marine fisheries production

CM Free, JT Thorson, ML Pinsky, KL Oken… - Science, 2019‏ - science.org
Climate change is altering habitats for marine fishes and invertebrates, but the net effect of
these changes on potential food production is unknown. We used temperature-dependent …

Global ensemble projections reveal trophic amplification of ocean biomass declines with climate change

HK Lotze, DP Tittensor, A Bryndum-Buchholz… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - pnas.org
While the physical dimensions of climate change are now routinely assessed through
multimodel intercomparisons, projected impacts on the global ocean ecosystem generally …

Tracking improvement in simulated marine biogeochemistry between CMIP5 and CMIP6

R Séférian, S Berthet, A Yool, J Palmiéri, L Bopp… - Current Climate Change …, 2020‏ - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The changes or updates in ocean biogeochemistry component
have been mapped between CMIP5 and CMIP6 model versions, and an assessment made …

Climate, ecosystems, and planetary futures: The challenge to predict life in Earth system models

GB Bonan, SC Doney - Science, 2018‏ - science.org
BACKGROUND Earth system models (ESMs) simulate physical, chemical, and biological
processes that underlie climate and are the most complex in a hierarchy of models of Earth's …