Increasing Sea Surface Temperature at Entrance Island

Observation: The Sea Surface Temperature (SST) has generally increased at the Entrance Island station since 1936. It has fluctuated as shown in Figure 1, but with most positive (warm) anomalies from the long term average temperature occurring since 1980. Figure 2 shows a positive temperature anomaly for almost the entire year of 2015--the time period reported by Chandler (2016).

Resources:

State of the Pacific Ocean Technical Reports

Data from BC Lighthouses

References:

Chandler, P. 2016. Sea surface temperature and salinity trends observed at lighthouses and weather buoys in British Columbia, 2015. Pages 40-44 in Chandler, P.C., King, S.A., and Perry, R.I. (Eds.). 2016. State of the physical, biological and selected fishery resources of Pacific Canadian marine ecosystems in 2015. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 3179.

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