South Pacific Convergence Zone dynamics, variability and impacts in a changing climate

JR Brown, M Lengaigne, BR Lintner… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) is a diagonal band of intense rainfall
and deep atmospheric convection extending from the equator to the subtropical South …

Intensification of the global water cycle and evidence from ocean salinity: A synthesis review

L Yu, SA Josey, FM Bingham… - Annals of the New York …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The ocean plays a dominant role in the global water cycle. It is the center of action for global
evaporation and precipitation and supplies the moisture that falls as continental …

Highest ocean heat in four centuries places Great Barrier Reef in danger

BJ Henley, HV McGregor, AD King, O Hoegh-Guldberg… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in Australia between 2016 and 2024
was driven by high sea surface temperatures (SST). The likelihood of temperature-induced …

Higher frequency of Central Pacific El Niño events in recent decades relative to past centuries

MB Freund, BJ Henley, DJ Karoly, HV McGregor… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
El Niño events differ substantially in their spatial pattern and intensity. Canonical Eastern
Pacific El Niño events have sea surface temperature anomalies that are strongest in the far …

[HTML][HTML] A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

PAGES2k Consortium - Scientific data, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Reproducible climate reconstructions of the Common Era (1 CE to present) are key to
placing industrial-era warming into the context of natural climatic variability. Here we present …

Early onset of industrial-era warming across the oceans and continents

NJ Abram, HV McGregor, JE Tierney, MN Evans… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The evolution of industrial-era warming across the continents and oceans provides a context
for future climate change and is important for determining climate sensitivity and the …

Tropical sea surface temperatures for the past four centuries reconstructed from coral archives

JE Tierney, NJ Abram, KJ Anchukaitis… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Most annually resolved climate reconstructions of the Common Era are based on terrestrial
data, making it a challenge to independently assess how recent climate changes have …

Observed freshening and warming of the western Pacific warm pool

S Cravatte, T Delcroix, D Zhang, M McPhaden… - Climate dynamics, 2009 - Springer
Trends in observed sea surface salinity (SSS) and temperature are analyzed for the tropical
Pacific during 1955–2003. Since 1955, the western Pacific Warm Pool has significantly …

Toward defining the Anthropocene onset using a rapid increase in anthropogenic fingerprints in global geological archives

M Kuwae, Y Yokoyama, S Tims, M Froehlich… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
One of the remaining issues regarding the Anthropocene is the lack of stratigraphic
evidence indicating when the cumulative human pressure from the early Holocene began to …

Physiological and isotopic responses of scleractinian corals to ocean acidification

S Krief, EJ Hendy, M Fine, R Yam, A Meibom… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2010 - Elsevier
Uptake of anthropogenic CO2 by the oceans is altering seawater chemistry with potentially
serious consequences for coral reef ecosystems due to the reduction of seawater pH and …