Compounding impact of severe weather events fuels marine heatwave in the coastal ocean

Exposure to extreme events is a major concern in coastal regions where human populations and stressed ecosystems are at risk to such phenomena. Here the authors show a marine heatwave on the continental shelf resulted from a novel set of compounding effects due to a tropical storm followed by an atm...

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Main Authors: B. Dzwonkowski, J. Coogan, S. Fournier, G. Lockridge, K. Park, T. Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18339-2