Extreme Marine Heatwaves –common characteristics, drivers and impacts

Alexander Sen Gupta, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Sydney, Australia, Mads S Thomsen, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand, New Zealand, Jessica Benthuysen, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Crawley, WA, Australia, Alistair J Hobday, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Eric Oliver, Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada, Lisa Alexander, University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Michael T Burrows, Scottish Marine Institute, Department of Ecology, Oban, United Kingdom, Markus Donat, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain, Ming Feng, CSIRO, Oceans and Atmosphere, Crawley, WA, Australia, Neil John Holbrook, University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, TAS, Australia, Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Pippa J Moore, Aberystwyth University, Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, Regina Rodrigues, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, SC, Brazil, Hillary A Scannell, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, Andrea Taschetto, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Caroline Ummenhofer, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Thomas Wernberg, The University of Western Australia, UWA Oceans Institute and School of Biological Sciences, Perth, WA, Australia and Dan E Smale, Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, United Kingdom