Distant processes influence marine heatwaves around the world

Science Daily  June 17, 2019
An international team of researchers (Australia, USA – University of Washington, Canada, Spain, UK) considered marine heatwaves and their drivers in 22 regions across four ocean and climate zones, based on published papers since 1950. They found that marine heatwaves may be influenced by several factors in combination, where processes may be both local and remote to the events, other climate phenomena such as El Niño — Southern Oscillation or the North Atlantic Oscillation, with their centre-of-action in one ocean basin can increase the odds of marine heatwaves in other regions thousands of kilometres away. The baseline knowledge from this study regarding the important drivers of marine heatwaves across the globe will be invaluable to researchers…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE