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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Zeitschriften
DOI 10.1038/s41558-021-01266-5
Lizenz creative commons licence
Titel (primär) Threat by marine heatwaves to adaptive large marine ecosystems in an eddy-resolving model
Autor Guo, X.; Gao, Y.; Zhang, S.; Wu, L.; Chang, P.; Cai, W.; Zscheischler, J. ORCID logo ; Leung, L.R.; Small, J.; Danabasoglu, G.; Thompson, L.; Gao, H.
Quelle Nature Climate Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
Department CHS
Band/Volume 12
Heft 2
Seite von 179
Seite bis 186
Sprache englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
Daten-/Softwarelinks https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3637771
Supplements Supplement 1
Abstract Marine heatwaves (MHWs), episodic periods of abnormally high sea surface temperature, severely affect marine ecosystems. Large marine ecosystems (LMEs) cover ~22% of the global ocean but account for 95% of global fisheries catches. Yet how climate change affects MHWs over LMEs remains unknown because such LMEs are confined to the coast where low-resolution climate models are known to have biases. Here, using a high-resolution Earth system model and applying a ‘future threshold’ that considers MHWs as anomalous warming above the long-term mean warming of sea surface temperatures, we find that future intensity and annual days of MHWs over the majority of the LMEs remain higher than in the present-day climate. Better resolution of ocean mesoscale eddies enables simulation of more realistic MHWs than low-resolution models. These increases in MHWs under global warming pose a serious threat to LMEs, even if resident organisms could adapt fully to the long-term mean warming.
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Guo, X., Gao, Y., Zhang, S., Wu, L., Chang, P., Cai, W., Zscheischler, J., Leung, L.R., Small, J., Danabasoglu, G., Thompson, L., Gao, H. (2022):
Threat by marine heatwaves to adaptive large marine ecosystems in an eddy-resolving model
Nat. Clim. Chang. 12 (2), 179 - 186 10.1038/s41558-021-01266-5