Coastal environments, in particular heavily populated semi-enclosed marginal seas and
coasts like the Baltic Sea region, are strongly affected by human activities. A multitude of …

Over the past four decades, the understanding of Mediterranean oceanography has evolved
considerably. From a purely stationary view, there has been a shift to a concept that …

Marine heatwaves (MHWs) can cause devastating impacts on marine life. The frequency of
MHWs, gauged with respect to historical temperatures, is expected to rise significantly as the …

Sea-level change is one of the most concerning climate change and global warming
consequences, especially impacting coastal societies and environments. The spatial and …

The paper aims to describe the preconditioning and observations of exceptionally high
salinity values that were observed in summer and autumn of 2017 in the Adriatic. The …

The Mediterranean Sea is considered a hot spot of global warming because it has been
changing faster than the global ocean, creating a strong impact on the marine environment …

Heatwaves are now considered one of the main stressors of global warming. As a result of
anthropogenic warming, atmospheric and oceanic heatwaves have increased in frequency …

The Mediterranean community represented in this paper is the result of more than 30 years
of EU and nationally funded coordination, which has led to key contributions in science …

In recent decades, the north Ionian Sea, central Mediterranean Sea, has witnessed shifts in
surface current circulation from cyclonic to anticyclonic and vice versa at the quasi-decadal …

Under the emerging features of interannual-to-decadal ocean variability, the periodical
reversals of the North Ionian Gyre (NIG), driven mostly by the mechanism named Adriatic …