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  • All European seas have warmed considerably since 1870, and the warming has been particularly rapid since the late 1970s. The multi-decadal rate of sea surface temperature rise during the satellite era (since 1979) has been between 0.21 °C per decade in the North Atlantic and 0.40 °C per decade in the Baltic Sea.
  • Globally averaged sea surface temperature is projected to continue to increase, although more slowly than atmospheric temperature.

Reference information

Websites:
https://www.eea.europa.eu/ds_resolveuid/IND-100-en
Source:
EEA

Published in Climate-ADAPT: Jun 7, 2016

Date of publication:

2017

Keywords:
CLIM013, sea surface temperature
Climate impacts:

Extreme Temperatures

Adaptation Approaches:

Observations and Scenarios, Climate services

Sectors:

Marine and Fisheries

Geographic characterisation:

Europe

Countries:

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Republic of North Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, United Kingdom

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