Mediterranean Summer Marine Heatwaves Triggered By Weaker Winds Under Subtropical Ridges: codes for analysis

This directory contains codes used in the analysis for the following paper:
Bonino, G., McAdam, R. et al., 2025. Nature Geoscience.
Mediterranean Summer Marine Heatwaves Triggered By Weaker Winds Under Subtropical Ridges

This repository is licensed under the MIT License (see `LICENSE` file).

## Citation

If you use these scripts or data, please cite:

McAdam, R. & Bonino, G (2025), doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15690822.

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123_MED_new_peak
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Panda dataframe for MHW event characteristics (duration, season, date of peak etc.).
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yNEW.npy
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Clusters corresponding to the 123 marine heatwave events in the Mediterranean Sea.
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intmean_newcluster.npy
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Mean Intensity maps for each MHW event.
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composites_create.ipynb
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Calculates mean atmospheric variables during MHW onset, and statistical significance of anomalies with a 1000-sample bootstrapping method.
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-Scripts to recreate figures in the paper:
- Fig1.ipynb
- Fig2.ipynb
- Fig3.ipynb
- Fig4.ipynb
- ExtData_climatologies.ipynb
- ExtData_fluxcomps.ipynb

plotter.py is used to create the maps