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Climate coffee with Sofia Darmaraki: Marine Heatwaves in the Mediterranean Sea: A Literature Review

Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are prolonged periods of exceptionally warm temperatures in the ocean, which have forced profound transformations in marine biodiversity and socio-economic systems globally over the last decades. The Mediterranean basin, a highly vulnerable area to climate change, has been particularly affected as a marginal sea, experiencing multifaceted changes due to these events. This presentation provides an overview of current understanding regarding the evolution of MHWs in the Mediterranean basin, from the past to the future, based on a recent literature review. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, we summarize the key driving mechanisms of MHWs, known feedbacks and impacts on various marine organisms and local economies while discussing ongoing challenges in their detection, characterization and monitoring. Our speaker Sofia Darmaraki is a researcher at FORTH, the Coastal & Marine Research Laboratory, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas located in Crete, Greece. In October 2024, she published a paper on MHW. Sofia's research interests are the following: Physical oceanography and climate science, with a focus on ocean and climate extremes, their drivers, and uncertainties in future projections. Fascinated by large-scale ocean circulation response to climate change, polar ocean dynamics and air-sea interactions, using numerical models and observational systems. What is a Climate Coffee? #climatecoffees are short (circa 40 min: 20 min talk + 20 min Q&A), relaxed meetings for scientists to share ideas, discuss methods, and communicate new results. They are open to speakers of all seniority; we especially encourage early-career scientists to become speakers. The Coffees are an exciting opportunity for scientists to build a network and disseminate recent results peer-to-peer. We invite researchers from across the climate science community to join us for this series of regular online knowledge exchange events. Presentation in open access: https://zenodo.org/records/15056235 Publication: https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/...