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
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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

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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

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Final revised paper (published on 11 Oct 2018)
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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Interactive comment on “Mediterranean Sea climatic indices: monitoring long term variability and climate changes” by Athanasia Iona et al.', Aristomenis Karageorgis, 21 May 2018
- AC1: ''Response to reviewer’s #1 comments'', Athanasia Iona, 19 Jul 2018
- AC2: ''Response to reviewer’s #1 supplement document comments essd-2018-51-supplement.pdf'', Athanasia Iona, 19 Jul 2018
RC2: 'Mediterranean Sea climatic indices: monitoring long term variability and climate changes', Roger Proctor, 03 Jun 2018
- AC3: 'Response to reviewer's #2 supplement documnet "essd-2018-51-RC2-supplement.pdf"', Athanasia Iona, 20 Jul 2018
- AC4: 'Response2 to reviewer's #2 supplement documnet "essd-2018-51-RC2-supplement.pdf"', Athanasia Iona, 16 Aug 2018
  - AC5: 'Additional comment to Roger Proctor', Athanasia Iona, 13 Sep 2018
AC6: 'Response to Topic Editor comments', Athanasia Iona, 13 Sep 2018

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.