South Pacific Ocean Archives - Climate Attribution

Extreme Heat in New Zealand: A Synthesis

Published:September 2022

Author(s):Luke J. Harrington, David Frame

Publisher:Climatic Change

Report assessing the impacts of climate change on extreme heat in New Zealand's microclimates.Read More →

The Role of Natural Variability and Anthropogenic Climate Change in the 2017/18 Tasman Sea Marine Heatwave

Published:February 2019

Author(s):S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, A. D. King; E. A. Cougnon, N. J. Holbrook, M. R. Grose, E. C. J. Oliver, S. C. Lewis, F. Pourasghar

Publisher:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS)

This article describes the record sea surface temperatures during the 2017/18 Tasman Sea marine heatwave and how climate models indicate that they were virtually impossible without anthropogenic influence. Read More →