October 17, 2024 2:20 PM

Deep ocean marine heatwaves may be under-reported, study says

Heatwaves deep in oceans may be "significantly under-reported", highlighting an area of marine warming that has been largely overlooked, a joint study by Australia's national science agency (CISRO) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found. The study, which was published on Thursday in the Nature scientific journal, found that 80% of marine heatwaves below 100 metres are independent of surface events. It said researchers used observational data from more than two million ocean temperature ...