Longer and more frequent marine heatwaves over the past century

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Oliver, Eric C J ^a,b,c   Donat, Markus G ^d   Burrows, Michael T ^e   Moore, Pippa J ^f   Smale, Dan A ^g,h   Alexander, Lisa V ^d   Benthuysen, Jessica A ⁱ   Feng, Ming ^j   Sen Gupta, Alex ^d   Hobday, Alistair J ^j   Holbrook, Neil J ^b,c   Perkins Kirkpatrick, Sarah E ^d   Scannell, Hillary A ^k,l   Straub, Sandra C ^h   Wernberg, Thomas ^h  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

ⁱ AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^j CSIRO   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^l NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT WAVE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; SEA;

EID: 85045236843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03732-9     Document Type: Article

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