Marine Heatwave Tracker: The app to see when and where marine heatwaves are happening around the world

Abstract

The Marine Heatwave Tracker software provides all of the tools necessary to download, process, and visualise marine heatwaves (MHWs) globally. This web application may be set up to show the occurrence of MHWs around the world in near-real-time (roughly a one-to-two day delay) using a cron job that runs a bash script calling ‘MHW_daily.R’. The Tracker also shows the historic records for the entire planet going back to January 1, 1982. Several additional data layers are offered in the Tracker. Further details are available through the app documentation.