Heat waves: Physical understanding and scientific challenges

D Barriopedro, R García‐Herrera… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Heat waves (HWs) can cause large socioeconomic and environmental impacts. The
observed increases in their frequency, intensity and duration are projected to continue with …

Kee** 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Extreme weather and climate events with ecological relevance: a review

CC Ummenhofer, GA Meehl - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Robust evidence exists that certain extreme weather and climate events, especially daily
temperature and precipitation extremes, have changed in regard to intensity and frequency …

A hierarchical approach to defining marine heatwaves

AJ Hobday, LV Alexander, SE Perkins, DA Smale… - Progress in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) have been observed around the world and are expected to
increase in intensity and frequency under anthropogenic climate change. A variety of …

Physical drivers of the summer 2019 North Pacific marine heatwave

DJ Amaya, AJ Miller, SP **e, Y Kosaka - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Summer 2019 observations show a rapid resurgence of the Blob-like warm sea surface
temperature (SST) anomalies that produced devastating marine impacts in the Northeast …

An increase in marine heatwaves without significant changes in surface ocean temperature variability

T Xu, M Newman, A Capotondi, S Stevenson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs)—extremely warm, persistent sea surface temperature (SST)
anomalies causing substantial ecological and economic consequences—have increased …