Frequency of marine heatwaves in the North Atlantic and North Pacific since 1950

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2069-2076

  Scannell, Hillary A ^a,b   Pershing, Andrew J ^b   Alexander, Michael A ^c   Thomas, Andrew C ^a   Mills, Katherine E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate variability; marine heatwave; power law; SST anomaly

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; SURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MARINE HEATWAVE; NATURAL CLIMATE VARIABILITIES; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; POWER-LAW; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SST ANOMALIES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; POWER LAW; PROBABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TRADE-OFF; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84959463585     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL067308     Document Type: Article

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