Emerging risks from marine heat waves

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Frölicher, Thomas L ^a   Laufkötter, Charlotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NOTE; ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; RISK; SEA;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; OCEANS AND SEAS; RISK;

EID: 85042013956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03163-6     Document Type: Note

References (25)

1. Parmesan, C., Root, T. L. &Willig, M. R. Impacts of extreme weather and climate on terrestiral biota. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 81, 443-450 (2000).
2. IPCC. Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Core Writing Team, R.K. Pachauri and L.A. Meyer (eds.)) 151 pp (IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, 2014).
3. Hobday, A. J. et al. A hierarchical approach to defining marine heatwaves. Prog. Oceanogr. 141, 227-238 (2016).
4. Garrabou, J. et al. Mass mortality in Northwestern Mediterranean rocky benthic communities: effects of the 2003 heat wave. Glob. Chang. Biol. 15, 1090-1103 (2009).
5. Pearce, A. F. &Feng, M. The rise and fall of the 'marine heat wave' off Western Australia during the summer of 2010/2011. J. Mar. Syst. 111-112, 139-156 (2013).
6. Wernberg, T. et al. An extreme climatic event alters marine ecosystem structure in a global biodiversity hotspot. Nat. Clim. Chang. 3, 78-82 (2013).
7. Jacox, M. G. et al. Impacts of the 2015-2016 El Nino on the California Current System: early assessment and comparison to past events. Geophys. Res. Lett. 43, 7072-7080 (2016).
8. Mills, K. E. et al. Fisheries management in a changing climate: lessons form the 2012 ocean heat wave in the Northwest Atlantic. Oceanography 26, 191-195 (2014).
9. Oliver, E. C. J. et al. The unprecedented 2015/16 Tasman Sea marine heatwave. Nat. Commun. 8, 16101 (2017).
10. Hughes, T. P. et al. Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals. Nature 543, 373-377 (2017).
11. Banzon, V., Smith, T. M., Mike Chin, T., Liu, C. &Hankins, W. A long-term record of blended satellite and in situ sea-surface temperature for climate monitoring, modeling and environmental studies. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 8, 165-176 (2016).
12. Di Lorenzo, E. &Mantua, N. Multi-year persistence of the 2014/15 North Pacific marine heatwave. Nat. Clim. Chang. 6, 1042-1047 (2016).
13. Bond, N. A., Cronin, M. F., Freeland, H. &Mantua, N. Causes and impacts of the 2014 warm anomaly in the NE Pacific. Geophys. Res. Lett. 42, 3414-3420 (2015).
14. Ummenhofer, C. C. &Meehl, G. A. Extreme weather and climate events with ecological relevance: a review. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci. 372, 20160135 (2017).
15. Wernberg, T. et al. Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem. Science 353, 169-172 (2016).
16. Cavole, L et al. Biological impacts of the 2013-2015 warm-water anomaly in the Northeast Pacific: winners, losers, and the future. Oceanography. 29, 273-285 (2016).
17. Seager, R. et al. Causes of the 2011-14 California drought. J. Clim. 28, 6997-7024 (2015).
18. Lima, F. P. &Wethey, D. S. Three decades of high-resolution coastal sea surface temperatures reveal more than warming. Nat. Commun. 3, 1-13 (2012).
19. Hughes, T. P. et al. Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene. Science 359, 80-80 (2018).
20. Sutton, R. T., Dong, B. &Gregory, J. M. Land/sea warming ratio in response to climate change: IPCC AR4 model results and comparison with observations. Geophys. Res. Lett. 34, 2-6 (2007).
21. Harris, I., Jones, P. D., Osborn, T. J. &Lister, D. H. Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations\-The CRU TS3.10 dataset. Int. J. Climatol. 34, 623-642 (2014).
22. Wei, Y. et al. The north american carbon program multi-scale synthesis and terrestrial model intercomparison project-Part 2: environmental driver data. Geosci. Model Dev. 7, 2875-2893 (2014).
23. Stott, P. A. et al. Attribution of extreme weather and climate-related events. Wiley Interdiscip. Rev. Clim. Chang. 7, 23-41 (2016).
24. King, A. D., Karoly, D. J. &Henley, B. J. Australian climate extremes at 1.5 C and 2 C of global warming. Nat. Clim. Chang. 7, 412-416 (2017).
25. Otto, F. E. L., Skeie, R. B., Fuglestvedt, J. S., Berntsen, T. &Allen, M. R. Assigning historical responsibilities for extreme weather events. Nat. Clim. Chang. 7, 757-759 (2017).