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Sep 2026
Subsurface‐Intensified Marine Heatwaves: A Hidden and Intense Warming Threat to Tropical Ocean Ecosystems
Understanding how the vertical structure of marine heatwaves (MHWs) influences ecosystems remains limited. Here we investigated subsurface‐intensified (Type‐1) and surface (Type‐2) MHWs in tropical oceans using reanalysis data sets. Type‐1 MHWs occur most frequently and are concentrated near the equator, with a threefo...
Wen-Bo He, Fuan Xiao, Cheng-Yi Qu et al.
· Geophysical Research Letters · 0 citations