Ocean Services for Pacific Islands
Sustainable Coastal and Ocean Research Institute (SCORI)
Sustainable Coastal and Ocean Research Institute (SCORI)
| Title | Marine Heat Wave (MHW) Advisory |
|---|---|
| Description |
Spatial distribution of daily Marine Heat Wave Advisory with severity categories. Marine Heat Wave (MHW) is a discrete prolonged anomalously warm water event to understand the persistence of heat content in the marine environment. The requirements for a warm water event to be described as an MHW are a duration of five or more days, temperatures greater than the 90th percentile of minimum 30-year local measurements and should not more than 2 days of cooling occurrence in a specific region. |
| Horizontal resolution | 0.25°Ã0.25° |
| Variables (units) | Intensity of MHW, Severity Categories, MHW Area (%) |
| Domain |
Spatial Extent: 129.45° E - 154.75° W, 25.70° S - 18.00° N Pacific Island countries: (i) Cook Islands; (ii) Fiji; (iii) Kiribati; (iv) Republic of Marshall Islands; (v) Federated States of Micronesia; (vi) Nauru; (vii) Niue; (viii) Palau; (ix) Papua New Guinea; (x) Samoa; (xi) Solomon Islands; (xii) Tonga; (xiii) Tuvalu; and (xiv) Vanuatu |
| Data provider | INCOIS (Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services) |
| Keywords | Heat wave, Severity |