The 2020 Arctic marine heatwave (IMAGE)

University of Hamburg

The 2020 Arctic marine heatwave

Caption

The figure shows the most powerful heatwave in the Arctic Ocean to date in 2020, which continued for 103 days. The cumulative heat intensity sums up the daily anomalies in water temperature recorded over the duration of the heat wave in degrees Celsius.

Credit

UHH/CLICCS/A. Barkhordarian

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