Marine cold-spells in the California Current System: Modeling changes in frequency and impacts on endangered species habitat
Fig 2
Examples of marine cold-spell detection methods.
A displays 120 years of modeled sea surface temperature (dynamically downscaled from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ESM2M) and detrended time series (calculated by subtracting predictions from daily, quadratic regressions of SST) for a grid cell in Monterey Bay. B displays marine cold-spell detection from the ensemble sea surface temperature and the anomaly during a four year period. Sea surface temperatures and anomalies that fall below their respective thresholds (represented by light blue lines) for more than five days are defined as marine cold-spell events.