SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURES ALONG THE COAST OF BRITISH-COLUMBIA - REGIONAL EVIDENCE FOR A WARMING TREND

Sea-surface temperature has been measured at a large number of sites around the coast of British Columbia for periods well in excess of 50 yr. For the purposes of this paper the daily SST observations are decimated to monthly mean values. Eighteen out of nineteen stations that are currently being sampled show a warming trend, the one that shows a cooling trend is the shortest time series, only in its eleventh year. The sea-surface temperatures at sites exposed to the Pacific Ocean show very high coherence with global scale air temperature variations but no relationship to the El Nino/Southern Oscillation signal. -from Author