Seasonal and longer term trends in sea temperature along the French North Sea coast, 1975 to 2002

• Published in: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
• Main Authors: Woehrlings, D, Lefebvre, Alain, Lehoerff, Genevieve, Delesmont, R
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2005
• Subjects: Fluctuation; Temperature; Long term; Seasonal; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2005/publication-616.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315405010805h; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/616/

Regular sea temperature measurements have been made since 1975 at Gravelines (French coast of the Southern Bight of the North Sea) within the framework of a research programme aimed at monitoring the influence of the thermal discharge of a nuclear power plant. The sampling has yielded a 28-year time-series. Pluriannual natural fluctuations of temperature show cyclic patterns and long-term trends in good accordance with global climatic changes as revealed by the NAO (North Atlantic Oscillation) annual index.