Specific events in the Mediterranean Sea
The satellite imagery enables the detection of remarkable events in the surface Mediterranean Sea. Some relevant examples are illustrated below.
[15-Jan-2025] Marine heatwave total days and maximum intensity reached in 2024 in the Mediterranean Sea
[09-Jan-2024] Newly updated linear trends in sea surface temperature and sea level in the Mediterranean Sea
[06-Nov-2023] Extremely cold ocean temperatures in the coastal western Mediterranean Sea in November 2023
[01-Jan-2023] 2022 is the warmest year for the western Mediterranean Sea with the warmest summer on record
[01-Sep-2022] Warmest sea surface temperatures on record in the western Mediterranean on 13 August 2022
[24-May-2022] Exceptional marine heat wave in the north-western Mediterranean in May 2022
[01-Apr-2022] Extended convection area in the north-western Mediterranean in March 2022
[01-Jan-2022] Newly updated linear trends in sea surface temperature in the Mediterranean Sea
[17-Oct-2021] Intense Western Anticyclonic Gyre in the Alboran Sea
[16-Aug-2021] Extremely warm sea surface temperature in most of the western Mediterranean Sea
[08-Jun-2021] River discharge in the north-western Mediterranean: signature in sea surface temperature and chl-a concentration
[01-Apr-2021] Deep convection in the north-western Mediterranean: signature in chlorophyll-a concentration
[13-Jan-2021] Strong marine heat spike (amplitude de above the climatological 90th percentile) in the eastern Mediterranean
[01-Jan-2021] Sea surface temperature increases (0.025-0.06ºC/year) over 1982-2020 in the Mediterranean
[01-Nov-2020] Warm month of October in the eastern Mediterranean with anomalies up to 3ºC
[07-Oct-2020] River discharges spreading out to the open ocean after important flooding in France
[01-Jun-2020] Warm month of May with anomalies up to 3ºC in the Balearic Sea
[18-Mar-2020] Deep convection in the Gulf of Lion: signature in chlorophyll-a concentration
[03-Feb-2020] Extremely high primary activity in the Balearic Sea (after the Gloria storm followed by warm temperatures)
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