Seasonal Variation of SST in Mediterranean Sea

Abstract

The study of sea surface temperature (SST) is fairly essential for solving many meteorologicaland oceanographic problem and climate system of the earth. The aim of this study is to explorethe variation of SST of Mediterranean Sea during the period (1980-2009) by using statisticalanalysis technique such as time series and trend. The data obtained from the Europe center(ECMWF) and the resolution of the grid of the variable is 0.5°*0.5° and selects three locations(points) in the Mediterranean Sea. The seasonal variation of SST has the highest value of trend insummer season (0.06) for the points I, II, III, while the lowest value in the transition season, i.e. inspring (0.01) for point I and III and in Autumn (0.04) for point III