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On changes of sea temperature in the English Channel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

A. J. Southward
Affiliation:
The Plymouth Laboratory

Extract

In a series of papers dealing with changes in the distribution of intertidal animals around Britain, and especially along the English Channel, attention was drawn to some local aspects of the general warming-up of sea and air that has taken place in the last 50 years (Southward & Crisp, 1954, 1956; Crisp and Southward, 1958). In the first of these papers smoothed values of annual mean air temperature at Plymouth Hoe, and sea surface temperature of the southern Celtic Sea were given, the latter values being based on Smed (1952). The graphs showed a rise of about 1° C in the air temperature and 0·5° C in sea temperature during 50 years.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1960

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