Fig. 1: Latitudinal gradient in sea surface temperature in Western Australia, the extreme marine heatwave in 2010/2011, and past observations and centurial projections of isotherms according to two CO2 emission scenarios.
From: Climate-assisted persistence of tropical fish vagrants in temperate marine ecosystems
a Map of the west coast of Australia with sampling sites (pink dots) of the Black Rabbitfish Siganus fuscescens and mean sea surface temperature (SST) from HadISST using the present-day climatology. b The 2010/2011 marine heatwave represented by both the SST (°C) anomaly obtained from NOAA Coral Reef Watch (https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/) and near-surface current anomaly (m s−1; arrows). Past observations and projections of the c minimum monthly mean 17 °C isotherm and d mean annual 20 °C isotherm represented by decadal averages (thick lines) and decadal ranges (shading) from a suite of historical datasets and 11 climate models CMIP5.
