Arctic warming contributes to increase in Northeast Pacific marine heatwave days over the past decades

• Published in: Communications Earth & Environment
• Main Authors: Song, S-Y, Yeh, S-W, Kim, H, Holbrook, NJ
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2023
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Oceanography; Physical oceanography; Arctic; Pacific; The Blob; Climate change
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00683-y; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/155334

The frequency and duration of marine heatwaves have been increasing with ocean warming due to climate change. In particular, the Northeast Pacific has experienced intense and extensive marine heatwaves since the late 1990s characteristically called the Blob. Here, an investigation of satellite-deriv...