https://w3id.org/np/RAwGVnm2oxnLVNYR18dmkFqbqFL4ZYw3yX0x0CxXzdzS8/Head https://w3id.org/np/RAwGVnm2oxnLVNYR18dmkFqbqFL4ZYw3yX0x0CxXzdzS8 http://www.nanopub.org/nschema#hasAssertion https://w3id.org/np/RAwGVnm2oxnLVNYR18dmkFqbqFL4ZYw3yX0x0CxXzdzS8/assertion https://w3id.org/np/RAwGVnm2oxnLVNYR18dmkFqbqFL4ZYw3yX0x0CxXzdzS8 http://www.nanopub.org/nschema#hasProvenance https://w3id.org/np/RAwGVnm2oxnLVNYR18dmkFqbqFL4ZYw3yX0x0CxXzdzS8/provenance https://w3id.org/np/RAwGVnm2oxnLVNYR18dmkFqbqFL4ZYw3yX0x0CxXzdzS8 http://www.nanopub.org/nschema#hasPublicationInfo https://w3id.org/np/RAwGVnm2oxnLVNYR18dmkFqbqFL4ZYw3yX0x0CxXzdzS8/pubinfo https://w3id.org/np/RAwGVnm2oxnLVNYR18dmkFqbqFL4ZYw3yX0x0CxXzdzS8 http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type http://www.nanopub.org/nschema#Nanopublication https://w3id.org/np/RAwGVnm2oxnLVNYR18dmkFqbqFL4ZYw3yX0x0CxXzdzS8/assertion https://w3id.org/np/RAwGVnm2oxnLVNYR18dmkFqbqFL4ZYw3yX0x0CxXzdzS8/citizens http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1784-2920 https://w3id.org/np/RAwGVnm2oxnLVNYR18dmkFqbqFL4ZYw3yX0x0CxXzdzS8/citizens http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type https://schema.org/CreativeWork https://w3id.org/np/RAwGVnm2oxnLVNYR18dmkFqbqFL4ZYw3yX0x0CxXzdzS8/citizens http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#comment Are marine heatwaves really becoming more common? A 2018 study reported that the ocean now has many more “marine-heatwave days” — days when the sea surface is unusually hot — than it used to. We re-checked that finding using completely different data and a different program, and it holds up. What was tested — One specific finding from the 2018 paper: that between 1982 and 2016 the world's oceans gained roughly 30 more marine-heatwave days a year. We did not test the paper's better-known headline — a 54% rise measured back over a whole century — because that one cannot be checked independently; we explain why in “What we did not test”. What was found — It is confirmed. Using satellite sea-surface temperatures from the European Space Agency's climate record (not the American data the original used) and a separate, independent piece of software to spot the heatwaves, we measured almost the same rise — about 32 extra marine-heatwave days over the period, against the 30 the original reported, a difference of about 6%. The frequency and the length of heatwaves also went up, matching the original. Does natural variability explain it? — No. When we removed the effect of El Niño and La Niña — the natural warm/cool swings in the Pacific — the rise was only slightly smaller and was still there. So the trend is not just a side-effect of those cycles. Why this carries weight — The two studies share neither the data nor the software, so their agreement is evidence about the finding itself, not a mistake copied from one to the other. A shared dataset or shared code could hide the same error in both; here nothing was shared. What we did not test — The paper's famous “54% over the past century” figure needs daily temperature records from before 1981, and no independent global record that far back exists — for anyone. So we tested only the satellite era (about a third of the paper's span) and say so plainly, rather than claiming more than the data allows. 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