A fine spatial-scale sea surface temperature atlas of the Australian regional seas (SSTAARS): Seasonal variability and trends around Australasia and New Zealand revisited

A Systematic Review of How Multiple Stressors From an Extreme Event Drove Ecosystem-Wide Loss of Resilience in an Iconic Seagrass Community

“…In order to examine details of the MHW within the bay and avoid biases intrinsic in some coarser SST datasets, high-resolution (2 km) daily nightime AVHRR L3S SST data available through the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) (http://imos. org.au/facilities/srs/sstproducts/sstdata0/, Griffin et al, 2017) were combined with the SST Atlas of Australian Regional Seas (SSTAARS) (1993-2016) climatology (Wijffels et al, 2018) to produce monthly mean SST and anomaly maps from 1993 to 2019. Time series of these variables were extracted by calculating the spatial means over the region shown in Figure 2.…”

“…Seagrass density data predominantly from the western embayment and Freycinet Estuary were also included (Seagrass monitoring program for the Shark Bay Marine Park, DBCA, Strydom, unpublished data). (Wijffels et al, 2018) for the 2011 MHW event. Interesting features visible in the images include: intrusion of cooler upwelled water into the bay (a) and subsequent shut down of this cooling mechanism during February (g); spatial variability of MHW signature in shallow areas of the inner bay (higher temperatures, faster cooling (c,h).…”

Coastal Mooring Observing Networks and Their Data Products: Recommendations for the Next Decade

“…The atlas covers the 25 years satellite record and is of significant duration to identify warming trends and spatial anomalies. This product is an excellent resource to regional modelers and will also inform research on ecosystem processes (Wijffels et al, 2018).…”

The Fate of Surface Freshwater Entering the Indonesian Seas

“…The flow field and the water mass properties of the Indonesian Seas are found realistic and we consider the output appropriate for this study (Figures , b, and c). Near the surface, an eastward flow is forced during the northwestern monsoon season (Wyrtki, ) with a current along the northern coast of Nusa Tenggara that is associated with coastal upwelling (Kida & Wijffels, ; Wijffels et al, ). A northward current exists in the Maluku Sea, which is a return flow from the Indonesian Seas to the Pacific.…”

“…Precipitation becomes weaker around April and October, during the transition period, and a minimum is observed around August (~120 mSv), during the southeastern monsoon. Part of the precipitated water over land enters the Indonesian Seas through rivers but its sum appears to be about 10 mSv (Meybeck & Ragu, 1995;van Beek et al, 2013), which is an order less compared to that entering directly through the ocean surface.…”