Anthropogenic and natural influences on record 2016 marine heat waves

• Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
• Main Authors: Oliver, ECJ, Perkins-Kirkpatrick, SE, Holbrook, NJ, Bindoff, NL
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Meteorological Society 2018
• Subjects: anthropogenic; marine heat waves; climate change; Bering Sea; The Blob
• Online Access: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/27863/; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/27863/1/Oliver%20et%20al.%20-%202018%20-%20Anthropogenic%20and%20Natural%20Influences%20on%20Record%20201.pdf

In 2016 a quarter of the ocean surfaceexperienced either the longest or most intense marineheatwave (Hobday et al. 2016) since satellite recordsbegan in 1982. Here we investigate two regions—Northern Australia (NA) and the Bering Sea/Gulf ofAlaska (BSGA)—which, in 2016, experienced theirmost intense...