High‐quality sea surface temperature measurements along coast of the Bohai and Yellow Seas in China and their long‐term trends during 1960–2012

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-76
Author(s):  
Yan Li ◽  
Lin Mu ◽  
Qingyuan Wang ◽  
Guoyu Ren ◽  
Qinglong You
Ocean Science ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 491-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. I. Shapiro ◽  
D. L. Aleynik ◽  
L. D. Mee

Abstract. There is growing understanding that recent deterioration of the Black Sea ecosystem was partly due to changes in the marine physical environment. This study uses high resolution 0.25° climatology to analyze sea surface temperature variability over the 20th century in two contrasting regions of the sea. Results show that the deep Black Sea was cooling during the first three quarters of the century and was warming in the last 15–20 years; on aggregate there was a statistically significant cooling trend. The SST variability over the Western shelf was more volatile and it does not show statistically significant trends. The cooling of the deep Black Sea is at variance with the general trend in the North Atlantic and may be related to the decrease of westerly winds over the Black Sea, and a greater influence of the Siberian anticyclone. The timing of the changeover from cooling to warming coincides with the regime shift in the Black Sea ecosystem.


2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-119
Author(s):  
G. I. Shapiro ◽  
D. L. Aleynik ◽  
L. D. Mee

Abstract. There is growing understanding that recent deterioration of the Black Sea ecosystem was partly due to changes in the marine physical environment. This study uses high resolution 0.25° climatology to analyze sea surface temperature variability over the 20th century in two contrasting regions of the sea. Results show that the deep Black Sea was cooling during the first three quarters of the century and was warming in the last 15–20 years; on aggregate there was a statistically significant cooling trend. The SST variability over the Western shelf was more volatile and it does not show statistically significant trends. The cooling of the deep Black Sea is at variance with the general trend in the North Atlantic and may be related to the decrease of westerly winds over the Black Sea, and a greater influence of the Siberian anticyclone. The timing of the changeover from cooling to warming coincides with the regime shift in the Black Sea ecosystem.


2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-39
Author(s):  
Ivana Violić ◽  
Davor Lučić ◽  
Ivona Milić Beran ◽  
Vesna Mačić ◽  
Branka Pestorić ◽  
...  

A semi- quantitative time series (2013-2017) was used to present the recent events of scyphomedusae appearance and abundance in the Boka Kotorska Bay, Montenegro, Southeast Adriatic. Six meroplanktonic species were recorded: Aurelia spp, Chrysaora hysoscella, Cotylorhiza tuberculata ̧ Discomedusa lobata, Drymonema dalmatinum and Rhizostoma pulmo. Among them, C. hysoscella and D. lobata dominated in the water column during winter and spring, forming dense aggregations in March and May, and February to May, respectively. Our description of the D. lobata blooms are actually the first known records of blooms for this species. C. tuberculata was observed in the Bay principally in August and September. The bloom was occurred only in 2017, being the first information of C. tuberculata mass appearance in this area. We hypothesized that global warming phenomena could trigger the observed changes, and in this respect, long-term trends of sea surface temperature (SST) fluctuations were analysed. The scyphomedusae blooms coincided with high positive SST anomalies, noted in the last seven years for this area. To better understand the mechanisms underlying changes in their phenology and abundance, detailed studies on benthic stages in the Bay are essential.


2013 ◽  
Vol 118 (20) ◽  
pp. 11,770-11,776 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Laing ◽  
Philip K. Hopke ◽  
Eleanor F. Hopke ◽  
Liaquat Husain ◽  
Vincent A. Dutkiewicz ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Adame ◽  
Fernando R. Elorriaga-Verplancken ◽  
Emilio Beier ◽  
Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse ◽  
Mario A. Pardo

AbstractBackgroundThe population growth of top predators depends largely on environmental conditions suitable for aggregating sufficient and high-quality prey. We reconstructed numerically the population size dynamics of a resident population of California sea lions in the Gulf of California during 1978 – 2019, and its relation with the gulf’s multi-decadal sea surface temperature trend. This are the first long-term insights to the oceanic environment of the Gulf of California and to the population trend of one of its major predators.ResultsOur results indicate that a three-decade sustained warming explains statistically the population’s trend, including a ∼65% decline between 1991 – 2019, accounting for 92% of the variance. Long-term warming conditions started in the late 80’s, followed by the population’s decline, from a peak of 43,834 animals (range: 34,080 - 58,274) in 1991 to only 15,291 (range: range: 11,861 - 20,316) in 2019. The models suggested a century-scale optimum sea surface habitat for the population occurring in mildly temperate waters, from 0.18 to 0.39°C above the 100- year mean of 22.24°C.ConclusionsThe negative relation of the population size with warming sea surface conditions was evident, and the predictability of the former from the sea surface temperature 100-year anomalies was high. The mechanistic links of this relation are still untested, but an apparent diversification of pelagic fish catches suggests a reduction of high quality prey. We propose that this sea lion population should be considered as vulnerable to any disturbance that could add to the negative effects of the current sea surface warming conditions in the Gulf of California.


2009 ◽  
Vol 66 (7) ◽  
pp. 1480-1489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Cannaby ◽  
Y. Sinan Hüsrevoğlu

Abstract Cannaby, H., and Hüsrevoğlu, Y. S. 2009. The influence of low-frequency variability and long-term trends in North Atlantic sea surface temperature on Irish waters. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 1480–1489. Sea surface temperature (SST) time-series collected in Irish waters between 1850 and 2007 exhibit a warming trend averaging 0.3°C. The strongest warming has occurred since 1994, with the warmest years in the record being 2005, 2006, and 2007. The warming trend is superimposed on significant interannual to multidecadal-scale variability, linked to basin-scale oscillations of the ocean–atmosphere system. The dominant modes of low-frequency variability in North Atlantic SST records, investigated using an empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis, correspond to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), the East Atlantic Pattern (EAP), and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index, respectively, accounting for 23, 16, and 9% of the total variance in the dataset. Interannual variability in Irish SST records is dominated by the AMO, which, currently in its warm phase, explains approximately half of the current warm anomaly in the record. The EAP and the NAO influence variability in Irish SST time-series on a smaller scale, with the EAP also contributing to the current warm anomaly. After resolving the prevalent oscillatory modes of variability in the SST record, the underlying warming trend compares well with the global greenhouse effect warming trend. The anthropogenic contribution to the current warm anomaly in Irish SSTs was estimated at 0.41°C for 2006, and this is predicted to increase annually.


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