Climate Change

The unprecedented coupled ocean-atmosphere summer heatwave in the New Zealand region 2017/18: drivers, mechanisms and impacts

During austral summer (DJF) 2017/18, the New Zealand region experienced an unprecedented coupled ocean-atmosphere heatwave, covering an area of 4 million km2. Regional average air temperature anomalies over land were +2.2 °C, and sea surface temperature anomalies reached +3.7 °C in the eastern Tasman Sea.

Publication Date: 
12/04/2019
M James Salinger, James Renwick, Erik Behrens & et al
Environmental Research Letters
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Tags:
Heat Waves, New Zealand, Climate Change, Oceans and Seas, Atmosphere, Global Warming, Climate Impacts, Marine Ecosystems