The local weather in Greece is typical of the Mediterranean climate: delicate and rainy winters, relatively warm and dry summers and, generally, prolonged intervals of sunshine all through many of the 12 months.

As well as, by making use of an offset you have ‘smeared’ the temporal and spatial resolution. The MMTS system has a temperature dependent systematic bias. That is only a physical reality of the thermistor Dale Vishay used. Making use of the identical offset regardless of the local local weather norm or date of conversion means your regional and monthly knowledge are skewed. Relying on the individual dates of conversion you may not even have first rate decadal decision.

This new version of the Roemmich-Gilson Argo Climatology extends the analysis of Argo-only derived temperature and salinity fields by 2014. The analysis technique is much like what was descibed in the Progress In Oceanography Roemmich and Gilson paper … Read the rest