Marine heatwaves under global warming

Nature

Volumn 560, Issue 7718, 2018, Pages 360-364

  Frölicher, Thomas L ^a   Fischer, Erich M ^b   Gruber, Nicolas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LETTER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE HEATWAVE; MARINE SPECIES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; ECOSYSTEM; HEAT; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PROBABILITY; SEA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ARCTIC REGIONS; ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; OCEANS AND SEAS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PROBABILITY;

EID: 85051643971     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0383-9     Document Type: Article

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