SeaDataCloud Mediterranean Sea - Ocean Heat Content 1955-2018

The SDC_MED_DP2 product contains sliding decadal temperature fields for the Mediterranean Sea in the layer 0-2000m covering the time period 1955-2018 and OHC annual anomaly estimates for the 0-700m and the 0-2000m layers. Annual Temperature climatological fields were obtained from an integrated Mediterranean Sea dataset which combines data extracted from SeaDataNet infrastructure (https://doi.org/10.12770/2a2aa0c5-4054-4a62-a18b-3835b304fe64) at the end of July 2019 and the Coriolis Ocean Dataset for Reanalysis (CORA 5.2, accessed in July 2020) distributed by the Copernicus Marine Service (INSITU_GLO_TS_REP_OBSERVATIONS_013_001_b). The analysis was performed with the DIVAnd (Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis in n dimensions), version 2.6.1.