Climate zones shift south as Australia's northern oceans warm

Since the 1950s, average sea surface temperatures in northeast and northwest tropical Australian waters have increased steadily, causing a 200km shift southwards of climate zones along the northeast coast and an expansion in the area that can be designated ""the tropics"".

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Keywords: CLIMATE CHANGE, TROPICAL ECOSYSTEMS, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE

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Related Topics: Ecology, Torres Strait, Coral Reefs, Northeast Australian Shelf - Great Barrier Reef LME, The Great Barrier Reef, Threats to Coral Reefs, Australia, Climate Change, Area 71: Pacific Western Central, Area 81: Pacific Southwest, Coral Reefs, Understanding climate change

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