Monitoring Marine Heat Waves (MHW) around Iceland using Copernicus Marine Service products

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Dr. Angel Ruiz Angulo, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Earth Sciences gives a lecture titled Monitoring Marine Heat Waves (MHW) around Iceland using Copernicus Marine Service products

Abstract:

There is no dispute about the anthropogenically induced changes in the ocean and atmosphere temperatures. The excess of energy accumulated in the atmosphere is then slowly uptaken by the Ocean. The Sea Surface Temperature (SST)  has shown over the last decade a remarkable increase, particularly in the North Atlantic. When this excess of ocean temperature above the average value lasts for longer than 5 consecutive days is defined as Marine Heat Wave (MHW). We use the Copernicus platform relying on hybrid products to estimate the potential of an application to observe and forecast the MHW around Iceland as a showcase.