Sea Surface Temperature - Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy
Original (non-English) name
Temperatura Superficial del Mar - Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceanográfico de la Armada de Chile
Acronym
SST - SHOA
Citation
Abstract
The Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Navy (SHOA) has a network of sea level stations along the coast to monitor a series of oceanic and atmospheric variables. Mean Sea Level (MSL) and Sea Surface Temperature (SST) have been recorded for several years. These last two were obtained between 1950 and 1998 by someone who manually recorded the sea temperature using a mercury thermometer. Nowadays there are automatic record systems with thermistors that broadcast almost in real time, via satellite.
The information regarding maximum, minimum and average monthly temperatures on this website has been gathered from four stations located in the north and central zone of Chile since 2002 to this date. It must be emphasized that the monthly average corresponds to the average of the daily temperatures recorded in a month. The maximum and minimum temperatures correspond to the external instrumental recording of temperatures during the same period of time. Additionally, the historic average, or climatology of each locality, is also displayed. The historic average was, up until 2013, calculated based on 20 years of measurements (1980 – 2000), and since 2014 it corresponds to the average calculated based on 30 years of measurements (1981 – 2010), in accordance with the proposal made by the countries in the CPPS.