As oceans warm, marine cold spells are disappearing theAGU
, which publishes short-format, high-impact research with implications spanning the Earth and space sciences. It is the first study to quantify and compare the changing nature of marine heat waves and cold spells over several recent decades on an oceanwide, global scale.
"Extreme events, either warm or cold, can bring an ecosystem to the edge," said Sofia Darmaraki, a physical oceanographer at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens who was not involved in the study."Establishing the oceans' baseline climatology and sensitivity of heat waves and cold spells to temperature changes, like they did in this study, is a burning question for the community.
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