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3. Results

[12]  According to the obtained results SST has positive trend higher than 0.01 pm0.005oC yr-1 for 24-yr record (1982-2005) within 300-1000 km band northward of the Antarctic coast (Figure 3a). However, on average for the Southern Ocean it has negative trend of about -0.02pm0.003 oC yr-1.

[13]  In the area between the Southwest Pacific Basin and Pacific-Antarctic Ridge, and southward of the Argentine Basin and Mid-Atlantic Ridge SST trend is more than -0.065 pm0.007 oC yr-1.

[14]  Sea level anomalies or absolute sea level increases in all area of the Southern Ocean (Figure 3b) and has an average rate of about 0.24 pm0.026 cm yr-1 for 12-yr record (1993-2005). However, it has a negative trend about -0.21pm0.05 cm yr-1 in the area the between the Southwest Pacific Basin and Pacific-Antarctic Ridge. In the southeastern part of the Argentine Basin, southward of the Cape Basin and the middle part of the Southeast Indian Ridge the rate of the sea level change is more than -0.11pm0.03 cm yr-1. To the north-east of the Weddell Enderby Abyssal Plain sea level decrease with the rate -0.19pm0.07 cm yr-1.


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Citation: Lebedev, S. A. (2007), Interannual trends in the Southern Ocean sea surface temperature and sea level from remote sensing data, Russ. J. Earth Sci., 9, ES3003, doi:10.2205/2007ES000283.

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