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Contrasting surface warming of a marginal basin due to large-scale climatic patterns and local forcing
The Mediterranean Sea is one of the first regions where sea surface temperature (SST) increase was linked to greenhouse effects and global warming. Due to its sensitivity to climate variability and its high impact on local and remote climate conditions, much effort has been made to assess the SST va...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7572400/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33077884 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74758-7 |
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author | Krauzig, Naomi Falco, Pierpaolo Zambianchi, Enrico |
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description | The Mediterranean Sea is one of the first regions where sea surface temperature (SST) increase was linked to greenhouse effects and global warming. Due to its sensitivity to climate variability and its high impact on local and remote climate conditions, much effort has been made to assess the SST variability in the Mediterranean as a whole. However, the Mediterranean is composed of several basins, each of which plays a different role in its conveyor belt’s function. This study focuses on the basin of the Tyrrhenian Sea which represents one of the crucial areas for deep mixing of the Mediterranean main water masses. Thirty-seven years (1982–2018) of satellite-derived data were used to investigate the SST variability in relation to large-scale and local forcing mechanisms. A significant warming trend of 0.034 ± 0.004 °C/year was found, which led to an average warming of 1.288 ± 0.129 °C over the considered period. The observed warming presents time-dependent spatial patterns as well as changes in the seasonal cycle. Our results highlight that the Tyrrhenian’s individual long-term surface variability has different characteristics than the Mediterranean as a whole and provide insight into the relative influence of large-scale teleconnection patterns and local air-sea interaction on this variability. |
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spelling | pubmed-75724002020-10-21 Contrasting surface warming of a marginal basin due to large-scale climatic patterns and local forcing Krauzig, Naomi Falco, Pierpaolo Zambianchi, Enrico Sci Rep Article The Mediterranean Sea is one of the first regions where sea surface temperature (SST) increase was linked to greenhouse effects and global warming. Due to its sensitivity to climate variability and its high impact on local and remote climate conditions, much effort has been made to assess the SST variability in the Mediterranean as a whole. However, the Mediterranean is composed of several basins, each of which plays a different role in its conveyor belt’s function. This study focuses on the basin of the Tyrrhenian Sea which represents one of the crucial areas for deep mixing of the Mediterranean main water masses. Thirty-seven years (1982–2018) of satellite-derived data were used to investigate the SST variability in relation to large-scale and local forcing mechanisms. A significant warming trend of 0.034 ± 0.004 °C/year was found, which led to an average warming of 1.288 ± 0.129 °C over the considered period. The observed warming presents time-dependent spatial patterns as well as changes in the seasonal cycle. Our results highlight that the Tyrrhenian’s individual long-term surface variability has different characteristics than the Mediterranean as a whole and provide insight into the relative influence of large-scale teleconnection patterns and local air-sea interaction on this variability. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7572400/ /pubmed/33077884 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74758-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Krauzig, Naomi Falco, Pierpaolo Zambianchi, Enrico Contrasting surface warming of a marginal basin due to large-scale climatic patterns and local forcing |
title | Contrasting surface warming of a marginal basin due to large-scale climatic patterns and local forcing |
title_full | Contrasting surface warming of a marginal basin due to large-scale climatic patterns and local forcing |
title_fullStr | Contrasting surface warming of a marginal basin due to large-scale climatic patterns and local forcing |
title_full_unstemmed | Contrasting surface warming of a marginal basin due to large-scale climatic patterns and local forcing |
title_short | Contrasting surface warming of a marginal basin due to large-scale climatic patterns and local forcing |
title_sort | contrasting surface warming of a marginal basin due to large-scale climatic patterns and local forcing |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7572400/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33077884 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74758-7 |
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