Mediterranean Marine Heatwaves (MHWs) as detected from ESA CCI SST 0.05°x0.05° covering 1982-2021
Authors/Creators
- 1. ISMAR-CNR
- 2. ICM-CSIC
- 3. Universitat de Barcelona
- 4. Aix Marseille Université, Université de Toulon
Description
Daily records of Mediterranean Marine Heatwaves (MHW) resulting from detection applied to the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Sea Surface Temperature (SST) satellite product on a regular 0.05°x0.05° grid, covering the period 01/01/1982-31/12/2021.
The MHW detection has been carried out via Hobday's method (Hobday et al. 2016).
The mhw_original field provides the intensity of anomaly [°C] of MHW events detected on the original SST data, while the mhw_detrended field describes the intensity of anomaly [°C] of MHW events detected on detrended SST data, via X-11 seasonal adjustment procedure.
The production of this dataset has been sustained with the support of the European Space Agency (ESA) "deteCtion and threAts of maRinE Heat waves" project (CAREHeat; grant number: 4000137121/21/I-DT).
References:
Hobday, A. J., Alexander, L. V., Perkins, S. E., Smale, D. A., Straub, S. C., Oliver, E. C., ... & Wernberg, T. (2016).
A hierarchical approach to defining marine heatwaves. Progress in Oceanography 141:227–238, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2015.12.014.