The Mediterranean is warming faster and the signal now reaches deep below the surface.
A 75-year study by IRB scientists finds accelerating warming and salinification, with pronounced changes in the Adriatic–Ionian region.
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Observational Evidence for Accelerated Warming and Salinification Propagating Into the Deep Mediterranean
Mediterranean warming and salinification are accelerating, by up to 0.3°C per decade2 in the upper 1,000–2,000 m
Acceleration is vertically coherent, reaching the deep basin, so linear trends alo...