Temperature, oxygen, pH, carbon and even the age of water masses. More than 40 years of measurements now make it possible to look back and study how the Mediterranean is being transformed and to better understand what changes the climate crisis is bringing about in its waters.
Researchers at the La Coruña and Balearic oceanographic centres of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC), together with scientists from European and US institutions, have compiled data from 46 oceanographic campaigns carried out between 1976 and 2018 across virtually the whole of the Mediterranean.