Collection 

Marine heatwaves

Submission status
Open

Unusually warm ocean temperatures at the surface or subsurface can have a detrimental effect on the health of marine ecosystems. Yet marine heatwaves have only come into the focus of ocean research over the course of the past decade or so. Many gaps remain in our knowledge about marine heatwaves; even the definition of exactly what constitutes a marine heatwave is still under debate.

In this Collection we present articles that explore the causes, characteristics and impacts of marine heatwaves. We are pleased to invite submissions of complementary studies and opinion pieces, to broaden the discussion.

To submit, see the participating journals
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Communications Earth & Environment is edited by both in-house professional editors and academic Editorial Board Members.
Nature Communications is edited by in-house professional editors.
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Scientific Reports is managed by in-house professional editors and edited by a team of external academic editors. For this Collection, Serena Illig, Sang-Wook Yeh and members of the Editorial Board are in charge of submissions to Scientific Reports.
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Regina R. Rodrigues, PhD
Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil
Regina R. Rodrigues is a Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. She is interested in understanding how tropical ocean basins interact and affect the extra-tropics leading to extreme events, using observations and modelling. More recently she has her attention on the physical mechanisms generating compound extreme events of droughts, land and marine heatwaves. Dr Rodrigues is an Editorial Board Member for Communications Earth & Environment.

Weiqing Han, PhD
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Weiging Han is a Professor of Physical Oceanography and Climate at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received her PhD at Nova Southeastern University in 1999. Her research focuses on large-scale tropical ocean circulation and dynamics, air-sea coupling, regional sea level variability and change, extreme events, and intraseasonal-to-decadal climate variability and climate change. Dr Han is an Editorial Board Member for Communications Earth & Environment.


Serena Illig, PhD
Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiale (LEGOS), France
Serena Illig is a Researcher at the Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiale (LEGOS, Toulouse, France). Her research focuses on the ocean variability in the tropical Atlantic and the phenology of extreme warm events along the equator and along the coast of Africa. She specializes in the equatorial dynamics and coastal wave propagation, as well as on the air-sea interactions at regional and basin scales. Dr Illig has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2019.
 

Sang-Wook Yeh, PhD
Hanyang University, South Korea
Sang-Wook Yeh is a Professor at Hanyang University. He received his B.S. (1992), M.S. (1994) and Ph.D. (2001) degree in atmospheric science from Seoul National University. His research interest focuses on climate variability and climate change related to ocean- atmosphere coupled processes, hydrological cycle, and climate-chemistry interactions. Professor Yeh has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2019.