Marine heatwaves: definition duel heats up

Marine heatwaves: definition duel heats up


Play all audios:


Changing the commonly used definition of a marine heatwave from a fixed to a shifting temperature baseline (D. J. Amaya _et al_. _Nature_ 616, 29–32; 2023) would be inconsistent with current


trends and confuse communications relating to extreme conditions. A full list of co-signatories to this letter appears in Supplementary Information. COMPETING INTERESTS The author declares


no competing interests.