Articles | Volume 17, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-5967-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-5967-2020
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03 Dec 2020
Research article |  | 03 Dec 2020

Extreme event waves in marine ecosystems: an application to Mediterranean Sea surface chlorophyll

Valeria Di Biagio, Gianpiero Cossarini, Stefano Salon, and Cosimo Solidoro

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Events that influence the functioning of the Earth’s ecosystems are of interest in relation to a changing climate. We propose a method to identify and characterise waves of extreme events affecting marine ecosystems for multi-week periods over wide areas. Our method can be applied to suitable ecosystem variables and has been used to describe different kinds of extreme event waves of phytoplankton chlorophyll in the Mediterranean Sea, by analysing the output from a high-resolution model.
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