Mediterranean Sea climatic indices: monitoring  long-term variability and climate changes

Iona, Athanasia; Theodorou, Athanasios; Sofianos, Sarantis; Watelet, Sylvain; Troupin, Charles; Beckers, Jean-Marie

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1829-2018

Articles | Volume 10, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1829-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1829-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 4

Review article

|

11 Oct 2018

Review article |

| 11 Oct 2018

Mediterranean Sea climatic indices: monitoring long-term variability and climate changes

Athanasia Iona, Athanasios Theodorou, Sarantis Sofianos, Sylvain Watelet, Charles Troupin, and Jean-Marie Beckers

Data sets

Mediterannean Sea-Temperature and Salinity Annual Climatology Athanasia Iona https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1146976

Mediterannean Sea-Temperature and Salinity Annual Climatology for 57 running decades from 1950-1959 to 2006-2015 Athanasia Iona https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1146957

Mediterannean Sea-Temperature and Salinity Seasonal Climatology Athanasia Iona https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1146953

Mediterannean Sea-Temperature and Salinity Seasonal Climatology for 57 running decades from 1950-1959 to 2006-2015 Athanasia Iona https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1146938

Mediterranean Sea Climatic Indices - T/S Anomalies Athanasia Iona https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1408832

Mediterranean Sea Climatic Indices - T/S Vertical Averages Athanasia Iona https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1408929

Mediterranean Sea Climatic Indices - Areal density of OHC/OSC Athanasia Iona https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1408877

Mediterranean Sea Climatic Indices - Linear trends of T/S, OHC/OSC Anomalies Athanasia Iona https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1408917

Mediterranean Sea Climatic Indices - Time Series of T/S, OHC/OSC Anomalies Athanasia Iona https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1411398

Mediterranean Sea Climatic Indices - Differences of two 30-years averages of T/S, OHC/OSC Anomalies Athanasia Iona https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1408903

Short summary

The paper introduces a new product composed of a set of climatic indices from 1950 to 2015 for the Mediterranean Sea. It is produced from a high-resolution decadal climatology of temperature and salinity on a 1/8 degree regular grid based on the SeaDataNet V2 historical data collection. The climatic indices can contribute to the studies of the long-term variability of the Mediterranean Sea and the better understanding of the complex response of the region to the ongoing global climate change.