What Causes Heatwaves in the Ocean?

Neil John Holbrook1, Hillary A Scannell2, Alexander Sen Gupta3, Jessica Benthuysen4, Ming Feng5, Eric C Oliver, Lisa Alexander3, Michael T Burrows7, Markus Donat8, Alistair J Hobday9, Pippa J Moore10, Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick11, Dan E Smale12, Sandra E Straub13 and Thomas Wernberg13, (1)University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, TAS, Australia, (2)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (4)Australian Institute of Marine Science, Crawley, WA, Australia, (5)CSIRO, Oceans and Atmosphere, Crawley, WA, Australia, (6)Scottish Marine Institute, Department of Ecology, Oban, United Kingdom, (7)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (8)CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS, Australia, (9)Aberystwyth University, Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, (10)University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (11)Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (12)The University of Western Australia, UWA Oceans Institute and School of Biological Sciences, Perth, WA, Australia