Image_1_Marine Heatwaves in the Chesapeake Bay.pdf

• Main Authors: Piero L. F. Mazzini (10654717), Cassia Pianca (11917919)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Oceanography; Marine Biology; Marine Geoscience; Biological Oceanography; Chemical Oceanography; Physical Oceanography; Marine Engineering; marine heatwaves; estuary; climate change; water temperature; extreme events; Chesapeake Bay; Lower Bay; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.750265.s001

Prolonged events of anomalously warm sea water temperature, or marine heatwaves (MHWs), have major detrimental effects to marine ecosystems and the world's economy. While frequency, duration and intensity of MHWs have been observed to increase in the global oceans, little is known about their p...