Internal tides can provide thermal refugia that will buffer some coral reefs from future global warming

Abstract Observations show ocean temperatures are rising due to climate change, resulting in a fivefold increase in the incidence of regional-scale coral bleaching events since the 1980s; analyses based on global climate models forecast bleaching will become an annual event for most of the world’s c...

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Main Authors: Curt D. Storlazzi, Olivia M. Cheriton, Ruben van Hooidonk, Zhongxiang Zhao, Russell Brainard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70372-9