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| OSR9 | Chapter 3.3
| 30 Sep 2025 | OSR9 | Chapter 3.3
Insights into sea surface temperature variability and the impact of long-term warming on marine heatwaves in the Mediterranean Sea
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Institute of Oceanography, Anavyssos, Greece
Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Gerasimos Korres
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Institute of Oceanography, Anavyssos, Greece
Sofia Darmaraki
Coastal & Marine Research Laboratory (CMRL), Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics (IACM), Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas (FORTH), Crete, Greece
Maria Hatzaki
Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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The Mediterranean Sea experiences a basin-wide increase in sea surface temperature (SST) and extreme SST occurrences. Stronger warming trends are found in the eastern basin, where a decrease in SST variability is also observed. Our findings on the origin of marine heatwave (MHW) trends in the basin suggest that the mean SST warming drives the long-term trends for most MHW properties across the basin, except for mean MHW intensity, where interannual variability emerges as the dominant driver.
The Mediterranean Sea experiences a basin-wide increase in sea surface temperature (SST) and...
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