Temperature and salinity double in Mediterranean
The Mediterranean is responding very quickly to global warming and the rate of evaporation is higher than precipitation and fluvial supply. Temperatures and salinity is also increasing at two and a half times the rate at the midway point in the twentieth century and higher than that of the oceans, according to research published in Scientific Reports.
The data of the study shows that since the end of 1993 until today, the temperature and salinity of the water coming from the eastern Mediterranean, between 300 and 600 meters below sea level, have experienced significant variations. In particular, the rapidity with which they are increasing is two and a half times that seen in the eastern Mediterranean in the second half of the twentieth century and is much higher than that seen in oceans.
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