"Marine heatwave" refers to a period of unusually warm water in the ocean. It's kind of like a heatwave, but for the ocean instead of the air. This warm water can cause problems for marine life, like harming coral reefs and disrupting ecosystems.
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«marine»
«heatwave»
Sentences with «marine heatwave»
- With either 1.5 ℃ or 2 ℃ global warming, we will see more extremely hot summers across Australia, more frequent marine heatwaves of the kind that can cause bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, and probably more frequent drought conditions too. (theconversation.com)
- Importantly, these trends can largely be explained by increases in mean ocean temperatures, suggesting that we can expect further increases in marine heatwave days under continued global warming.» (ecoshock.org)
- Because ocean warming is expected to continue throughout the rest of the century, «we expect a continued global increase in marine heatwave frequency and duration in the future with implications for marine biodiversity and the goods and services ocean ecosystems provide,» the researchers note in the study. (scientificamerican.com)
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