The sea surface temperature of the western Mediterranean Sea: Historical satellite thermal data

1994 ◽  
pp. 155-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalia Santoleri ◽  
Emanuele Böhm ◽  
Maria Elisabetta Schiano
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Western Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Thermal Data

scholarly journals Sea surface temperature variability in the North Western Mediterranean Sea (Gulf of Lion) during the Common Era

2016 ◽  
Vol 456 ◽  
pp. 124-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Alexandrine Sicre ◽  
Bassem Jalali ◽  
Belen Martrat ◽  
Sabine Schmidt ◽  
Maria-Angela Bassetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
The North ◽  
Western Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Gulf Of Lion ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Era ◽  
North Western

scholarly journals Sea surface temperature variability in the central-western Mediterranean Sea during the last 2700 years: a multi-proxy and multi-record approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 5439-5508 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Cisneros ◽  
I. Cacho ◽  
J. Frigola ◽  
M. Canals ◽  
P. Masqué ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Sediment Cores ◽  
Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
Western Mediterranean Sea ◽  
General Cooling ◽  
Age Model ◽  
Cooling Trend

Abstract. This study analyses the evolution of sea surface conditions during the last 2700 years in the central-western Mediterranean Sea based on six records as measured on five short sediment cores from two sites north of Minorca (cores MINMC06 and HER-MC-MR3). Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) were obtained from alkenones and Globigerina bulloides-Mg/Ca ratios combined with δ18O measurements to reconstruct changes in the regional Evaporation–Precipitation (E–P) balance. We reviewed the G. bulloides Mg/Ca-SST calibration and re-adjusted it based on a set of core top measurements from the western Mediterranean Sea. According to the regional oceanographic data, the estimated Mg/Ca-SSTs are interpreted to reflect spring seasonal conditions mainly related to the April–May primary productivity bloom. In contrast, the Alkenone-SSTs signal likely integrates the averaged annual signal. A combination of chronological tools allowed synchronizing the records in a common age model. Subsequently a single anomaly stack record was constructed for each proxy, thus easing to identify the most significant and robust patterns. The warmest SSTs occurred during the Roman Period (RP), which was followed by a general cooling trend interrupted by several centennial-scale oscillations. This general cooling trend could be controlled by changes in the annual mean insolation. Whereas some particularly warm SST intervals took place during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) the Little Ice Age (LIA) was markedly unstable with some very cold SST events mostly during its second half. The records of the last centuries suggest that relatively low E–P ratios and cold SSTs dominated during negative North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) phases, although SST records seem to present a close positive connection with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation index (AMO).

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