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A note on further changes of sea temperature in the plymouth area

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

A. J. Southward  and
E. I. Butler
A. J. Southward
Affiliation:
The Plymouth Laboratory
E. I. Butler
Affiliation:
The Plymouth Laboratory
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Monthly sea temperatures are tabulated for Station E1 from 1960 and for Plymouth Sound from 1958. The 70-year series now available shows that annual means increased by 0·75°C up to the 1950s. Since 1960 inshore temperatures have fallen 0·5°C and E1 surface temperatures 0·4°C. Sea-bottom temperatures at E1 increased 0·4°C between 1920 and the 1950s, and have fallen 0·4°C since 1960. The changes have been most marked in the second half of the year, but the last quarter (October-December) is still somewhat warmer than in 1920 and earlier.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , November 1972 , pp. 931 - 937
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1972

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