ICES Report on Ocean Climate 2015

Long time-series of ocean properties are rare for the surface ocean and even rarer for the deep ocean. The North Atlantic region is unusual in having a relatively large number of locations at which oceanographic data have been collected repeatedly for many years or decades; the longest records go back more than a century. The collation of these valuable data in the ICES Report on Ocean Climate (IROC) provides the very latest information from the ICES Area of the North Atlantic and the Nordic seas. This report describes the status of sea temperature and salinity in 2015 at locations where the ocean is regularly measured, including observed trends over the past decade – and longer where possible