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Decadal trends in Red Sea maximum surface temperature
Ocean warming is a major consequence of climate change, with the surface of the ocean having warmed by 0.11 °C decade(−1) over the last 50 years and is estimated to continue to warm by an additional 0.6 – 2.0 °C before the end of the century(1). However, there is considerable variability in the rate...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5557812/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28811521 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08146-z |
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author | Chaidez, V. Dreano, D. Agusti, S. Duarte, C. M. Hoteit, I. |
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description | Ocean warming is a major consequence of climate change, with the surface of the ocean having warmed by 0.11 °C decade(−1) over the last 50 years and is estimated to continue to warm by an additional 0.6 – 2.0 °C before the end of the century(1). However, there is considerable variability in the rates experienced by different ocean regions, so understanding regional trends is important to inform on possible stresses for marine organisms, particularly in warm seas where organisms may be already operating in the high end of their thermal tolerance. Although the Red Sea is one of the warmest ecosystems on earth, its historical warming trends and thermal evolution remain largely understudied. We characterized the Red Sea’s thermal regimes at the basin scale, with a focus on the spatial distribution and changes over time of sea surface temperature maxima, using remotely sensed sea surface temperature data from 1982 – 2015. The overall rate of warming for the Red Sea is 0.17 ± 0.07 °C decade(−1), while the northern Red Sea is warming between 0.40 and 0.45 °C decade(−1), all exceeding the global rate. Our findings show that the Red Sea is fast warming, which may in the future challenge its organisms and communities. |
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spelling | pubmed-55578122017-08-16 Decadal trends in Red Sea maximum surface temperature Chaidez, V. Dreano, D. Agusti, S. Duarte, C. M. Hoteit, I. Sci Rep Article Ocean warming is a major consequence of climate change, with the surface of the ocean having warmed by 0.11 °C decade(−1) over the last 50 years and is estimated to continue to warm by an additional 0.6 – 2.0 °C before the end of the century(1). However, there is considerable variability in the rates experienced by different ocean regions, so understanding regional trends is important to inform on possible stresses for marine organisms, particularly in warm seas where organisms may be already operating in the high end of their thermal tolerance. Although the Red Sea is one of the warmest ecosystems on earth, its historical warming trends and thermal evolution remain largely understudied. We characterized the Red Sea’s thermal regimes at the basin scale, with a focus on the spatial distribution and changes over time of sea surface temperature maxima, using remotely sensed sea surface temperature data from 1982 – 2015. The overall rate of warming for the Red Sea is 0.17 ± 0.07 °C decade(−1), while the northern Red Sea is warming between 0.40 and 0.45 °C decade(−1), all exceeding the global rate. Our findings show that the Red Sea is fast warming, which may in the future challenge its organisms and communities. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5557812/ /pubmed/28811521 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08146-z Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Chaidez, V. Dreano, D. Agusti, S. Duarte, C. M. Hoteit, I. Decadal trends in Red Sea maximum surface temperature |
title | Decadal trends in Red Sea maximum surface temperature |
title_full | Decadal trends in Red Sea maximum surface temperature |
title_fullStr | Decadal trends in Red Sea maximum surface temperature |
title_full_unstemmed | Decadal trends in Red Sea maximum surface temperature |
title_short | Decadal trends in Red Sea maximum surface temperature |
title_sort | decadal trends in red sea maximum surface temperature |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5557812/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28811521 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08146-z |
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