Sentences with phrase «marine heat waves in»

We talk about all sorts of cases of marine heat waves in the interview.

The researchers predict even more frequent marine heat waves in coming decades.

Not exact matches

This sounds ideal now that the SoCal heat wave has settled down and the marine layer fools us into thinking that there's really a fall chill in the air.

For instance, a 2016 marine heat wave killed 30 percent of coral in the Great Barrier Reef, a study published online April 18 in Nature reports.

In December, a special edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society included a selection of studies investigating the influence of climate change on a variety of recent extreme weather and climate events, including marine heat waves.

That means marine heat waves may become an even bigger problem in the coming decades.

One paper found that a 2016 marine heat wave off the coast of Alaska was unprecedented in terms of the temperatures it reached and concluded that it would not have been possible in a world where human - caused climate change was not occurring.

A study published yesterday in Nature Communications suggests that there's been a 54 percent increase in the number of annual «marine heatwave days» since the 1920s — that is, the total number of days each year that a marine heat wave is occurring somewhere around the world.

The scientists, led by Eric Oliver of Dalhousie University in Canada, investigated long - term heat wave trends using a combination of satellite data collected since the 1980s and direct ocean temperature measurements collected throughout the 21st century to construct a nearly 100 - year record of marine heat wave frequency and duration around the world.

Regional studies suggest that marine heat waves may provoke «widespread loss of habitat - forming species such as kelps and corals, drive shifts in species distributions, alter the structure of communities and ecosystems, and have economic impacts on aquaculture and seafood industries through declines in important fishery species,» they note.

In extreme cases, marine heat waves kill corals directly by essentially roasting them alive.

While the marine heat wave particularly damaged staghorn corals (Acropora millepora), this species may ultimately prove to be one of the resilient ones, Mikhail Matz, a biologist at the University of Texas at Austin, and his colleagues report in PLOS Genetics.

SWELTERING STRANDS In 2011, a marine heat wave off Australia's southern coast devastated the towering kelp forests of the Great Southern Reef (shown).

«The paper lays out in gory detail how much damage a single marine heat wave can [wreak] on key ecosystems.»

Note also that under hot conditions a stream of water vapor may not form clouds, but will instead act as an infrared blanket that amplifies the heat wave (this kind of heat wave is seen in California, fed by marine moisture from Baja).

In 2011 a marine heat wave around normally cool waters of the Australian island of Tasmania changed the ecosystem apparently permanently.

In the early 20th century, the average marine heat wave was about 10 days long (a global average).

Then Mark Eakin, the coordinator of NOAA's Coral Reef Watch reports the latest science: up to half of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia has died in the longest marine heat wave ever seen.

And so we can expect these trends [in sea surface temperature increases and marine heat waves] to continue, regardless of what we do, at least for the near future.»

Those marine heat waves are popping up more often, in more places, and lasting much longer.

As I reported in a previous show, the Tasman Sea just had a marine heat wave.

I ask Eric if he thinks we will see unexpected ecological shifts in the future as marine heat waves get worse.

Breaking science: unreported marine heat waves are striking more often and more violently in the seas.